Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-30 | Page 7 | Charge Taking Epirus Liberty

CHARGE III EP!RUSLIBERTY U. S. Government Asked to Recognize Pan-Epirotic Union Decision. MOW YORK. Nov. 20. The Italian frovernment is charged with depriving the people of northern ftpirus of their freedom. free-dom. The ace usa (ion is made In a telegram tele-gram Bent lodav to President Wilson and i Premiers Ck-menceau, Novd Cieorgo and j M. Venlzelos by the Fan-lOpiro' lc union j in America. l"r. John Oatzopoulos of j Lowell, Mass., president. ' The message, made public through the ! Greek bureau of information, ays rep- j refntatives in the United States invested invest-ed with power by the'Kpirots had pro- i claimed at Worcester, Mass., today, the union of northern Kpfrus with Greece. It appeals to the Kovernrncn t of the t'nited States lo recognize this "national decision of the I'an-Kpirotic T'uiou ot America in behalf of the inhabitants oi northern Kpirus." The message sets forth that In II1' these peoples. Christian and Mussulmans, resisted invasion of their province by Albanian forces and accomplished a revolution revo-lution recognized by all Die great powers of the protocol of Corfu and establishing northern lOplrus ''uh a free and autonomous autono-mous stat e, with Greek as the ofM .'ial languace." After the enl: an re of 1 tn lv into the war, the mesae says. Italian forces expeib-d from the province the native forces and Greek troops whieh had come "at. the urgent c;id of the autonomous slate, whieh was in dnnger from hordes of Albanian irregulars." The message charges that the Ua'ians then imposed on the Kpirots, linlo-AI-banian officials, te'her a nd , elergv. and. hi violation of the protocol of Corfu, declarer! de-clarer! "their avowed intention to annex the district of Chimarra to the It'ilimi kingdom." and a Iso t ha l the rest ot northern Kpirus "should constitute part of Albania under an Italian prol eci ora t " The Italian forces are a;-cmed, a .so. ot relushig to allow the mhabiuuits to nm-t nm-t r;r two divisions to assist the (i I lies in Macedonia.