Macedonians for the Northern Territory, Australia, 1905!

[Coolski]

Macedonians for the Northern Territory

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/2009/11/05/macedonians-for-the-northern-territory-australia-1905/

What an interesting article. Great find guys!

I thought i might decipher the difficult to read text in this thread. The words which I couldn't decipher I have replaced with a number. If you know the word, just state the number and the replacement word and i'll update it.




Macedonians for the Northern Territory

Mr A. G. Hales, the war correspondant, has a high opinion of the Macedonians as a people. Speaking to a representative of the Adelaide Advertiser, he expressed the opinion that they might be used to develop the Northern Territory of South Australia. "The Macedonians", he said "are purely agricultural in their avocations, and they are orderly and peaceful until they are stirred up by the Turks. They grow tobacco, wine, grain , and fruit and keep a few sheep and cattle. They are wonderfully industrious, frugal, honest, and hospitable, and their women as a race are as moral as any that breathe. They are the very type of people, for instance, that I would like to re settle in the Northern Territory. I think that owing to the persecutions of the Turks if the Government of South Australia were inclined to do so it could get 100,000 families of Macedonians to come into the Northern Territory, and a finer race of people to help us to build up a nation 13 not be found in any portion of the globe. The men are of splendid courage and fine physique. Further, they are great lovers and great judges of the horse, and in this connection they would be specifically suitable to the Northern Territory. They will not admit of an aristocracy among themselves. They are also very democratic and keep to the peasant class, and every military officer has to rise through the ranks. The women are handsome. The Macedonians are, however terribly oppressed by the Turks. The turks never pay their soldiers. When a regimant near Constantinople gets out of hand in 22 of arrears of pay the Government sends the rebellious regiment up to the most flourishing villayet in Macedonia, 24 them on the inhabitants, and the women and children are handed over to the tender 26 of 27 ribald soldiers. They loot 28- take anything they like- and if there is a good-looking girl in the place they send her down to Constantinople and sell her into a harem, the proceeds being divided amongst the regiment.

Taranaki Herald, January 27 1905

[Risto the Great]

Thanks for that Coolski, an excellent effort.
I know I was trying to build up the enthusiasm to decipher the text!

[Coolski]

it's almost done, just a few words left.

[Daskalot]

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/2009/...ustralia-1905/

What an interesting article. Great find guys!

I thought i might decipher the difficult to read text in this thread. The words which I couldn't decipher I have replaced with a number. If you know the word, just state the number and the replacement word and i'll update it.




Macedonians for the Northern Territory

Mr 1, the war correspondant, has a high opinion of the Macedonians as a people. Speaking to a representative of the Adelaide Advertiser, he expressed the opinion that they might be used to develop the Northern Territory of South Australia. "The Macedonians", he said "are purely agricultural in their 3, and they are orderly and peaceful until they are stirred up by the Turks. They grow tobacco, wine, grain , and fruit and keep a few sheep and cattle. They are wonderfully industrious, frugal, honest, and hospitable, and their women as a race are as moral as they are 7.They are the very type of people, for instance, that I would like to re settle in the Northern Territory. I think that owing to the persecutions of the Turks if the Government of South Australia were inclined to do so it could get 100,000 families of Macedonians to come into the Northern Territory, and a finer race of people to help us to build up a nation 13 not be found in any portion of the globe. The men are of splendid courage and fine physique. Further, they are great lovers and great judges of the horse, and in this connection they would be specifically suitable to the Northern Territory. They will not 17 of an aristocracy among themselves. They are also very democratic and keep to the peasant class, and every military officer has to rise through the ranks. The women are handsome. The Macedonians are, however terribly oppressed by the Turks. The turks never pay their soldiers. When a regimant near Constantinople gets out of hand in 22 of arrears of pay the Government sends the rebellious regiment up to the most flourishing villayet in Macedonia, 24 them on the inhabitants, and the women and children are handed over to the tender 26 of 27 ribald soldiers. They loot 28- take anything they like- and if there is a good-looking girl in the place they send her down to Constantinople and sell her into a harem, the proceeds being divided amongst the regiment.

Taranaki Herald, January 27 1905

Good initiative, I thought of doing this myself, but did not have the time.
I will add what I believe is correct:

1. A. G. Hales
the part before note 7 "as moral as they are 7" should be "as moral as any that 7"
17. admit

[Coolski]

Thanks Daskale, this now leaves 13, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28 to confirm

[Daskalot]

Here is a fully readable article:


Source: The Poverty Bay Herald, 25 January 1905, Page 4.

[Soldier of Macedon]

What a great and at the same time terrible picture of Macedonian life during that era.

[Daskalot]

This post is of importance so I will shamefully bump it.....

[Dats]

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889-1931) Wednesday 27 January 1904 Page 5

LONDON WEEK BY WEEK

CHAMBERLAIN'S SUCCESSES


EMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRALIA.


(From our Special Correspondent.)

London December 24 1903

An old Adelaide pressman (Mr. A. G. Hales), whom I met this week, is just back from Macedonia, where he has been representing the Daily News. He is full of enthusiasm for the qualities of, the Balkan aspirants for national liberty, and regards them as at least the equal in personal bravery of any troops he saw in action in South Africa, not even excluding the Highland brigades or the best of the colonials. Mr. Hales were -not merely a war correspondent he was a combatant. When he found that to keep in touch with the forces it was necessary that he should march with them into the mountains, camp with them, and even "fight with them, he promptly volunteered to do so, donned 'a- uniform, shouldered a rifle and bandolier, and became to all intents and purposes one of the band. In this way he was many times under fire and liad many narrow escapes, some of which were due as much to imprudence as to personal bravery in unnecessarily exposing himself to danger.' He thinks that if the Macedonians can only command sufficient European sympathy and suppport to be enabled to arm fifty thousand soldiers for service during next February, when their springtime opens, they will make at last a successful effort for independence.

As to the character of the Macedonians, as workers and as citizens, Mr. Hales is full of enthusiasm; he thinks that if the Commonwealth authorities could see their way clear to relax the Immigration Restriction Act many thousands of these men, with their wives and children, might be induced to settle in the agricultural districts of South Australia, Western Australia. Victoria, and New South Wales, with profit to themselves- and with a great advantage to the community in which they became settlers. They are,very like the Scottish Highlanders in physique, straight as a sapling, hard as iron bark, and as rugged, as their own mountains. They are the soul of honor, intensely domesticated, tireless in work, and in deadly earnest in everything. Perhaps Canada, which encourages the settlement on its Crown lands of "colonies'' of immigrants, whether' they be British or foreign; will make an effort to get several contingents of a few thousand each, should their next struggle for liberty be as futile as those they have made in the past...

&c

[Soldier of Macedon]

Thanks Dats.

Doing a brief search on this character called A.G Hales, I found this on googlebooks:

http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=Ytxtux-7Y2YC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=A.+G.+Hales,+macedonia&source=bl&ots=ulQ0Pr1cGR&sig=8hoFMhAcs_A3wqnfxbBEi5TxKvI&hl=en&ei=klquTJ2LHsikca_65LAN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=macedonian&f=false

Haven't had a chance to read it properly, but I noticed this on pages 62-63:

It was not her desire to see Bulgaria grow bigger and stronger, and rumour had it that there was just a possibility that pressure might soon be brought upon Turkey to hand Macedonia over to Bulgarian rule. In that case, many argued that the next step would be the absorption of Servia by Bulgaria, with the triple states under one crown; and right well Marozia knew that neither she nor Mabon, her lord, would be chosen by the Bulgarian and Macedonian people to rule over them.

[George S.]

First class evidence that the macedonians existed in 1903 & 1905 in australia.Or was tito's time machine around??Isn't it stupid to deny the undeniable fact that we are just Macedonians no ifs or buts.I think greece is worried about the real truth !