1. The different nationalities in Macedonia do not occupy clearly defined areas and, owing to the baffling way they are intermingled, it has always, and never more than to-day, been impossible to divide up Macedonia into Serb-speaking, Bulgarianspeaking, Greek-speaking, &c., districts which might conceivably be handed to the surrounding Powers by a plebiscite. It would be almost equally difficult to use religion as a basis for division and arrange the districts as “Exarchate (Bulgarian), “Patriarchate” (Greek), “Mahometan” (Turkish and Albanian), or as owing allegiance to the Serb or Roumanian Churches. A plebiscite of any kind is therefore not a practical proposition.

2. Although there is no ready-made solution for the Macedonian problem, it is to be hoped that, unless kept alive by artificial and extraneous means, the power of the revolutionary organisations will wane as time goes on. The internal quarrels and the disintegration of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation, the improvement of the local administration of Southern Serbia, the increase of material prosperity in the Balkans generally, and the gradual disappearance by death or absorption of the Macedonian emigrants in Bulgaria, are factors in the solution of the problem. It may also be anticipated that the more reasonable and progressive elements in Bulgaria and Macedonia will sooner or later grow weary of having their railway lines dynamited and bombs thrown through the windows of their favourite cafes, whilst a new and more or less Europeanised generation is growing up which neither knows nor cares for the heroic age of the “komitajis” and for the traditional feuds which inspired them.

3. There are many indications that the Bulgarian Government realise the disadvantages of allowing their international reputation as a European State to be prejudiced and their relations with Yugoslavia to be poisoned by the terrorist activities of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation, and will therefore grow increasingly anxious to emancipate themselves from the tyranny of the organisation.