Show SITUATION IN BAlKANS IS FA FAR fROM SETTlED Boundaries an and J Religions Religion's Have Stirred J Up Serious State of Affairs oI LOl-oI LONDON Juno of ON 8 The The troubles Mexico Menco and Ulster have hoye wholly overshadowed overshadowed over over- shadowed public interest in tho the near East durin during recent months But tho the formal ending of tho Balkan war has brought no rest reat to that long suffering re region ion Thrace Macedonia and Albania are boiling with M-ith racial and religious strife Stories of fighting of ti n and of massacres come to tho the London London Lendon Lon Len don papers from many correspondents and are aro printed in small smaIl t typo with littie lit- lit tie comment Europe has come come to accept ac ac- ac copt these conditions as a a. matter of course Due to Boundary Changes The changes of boundaries and of sovereignty which resulted from the pea peace o treaties and tho the launching of Albania Al Al- bania a as an autonomous state aro are re responsible responsible ro re- for the new era of struggles and butchery Even power concerned in tho the new allotments is trying to impress impress im urn- press not only its laws but its own state religion upon those who ho havo have become be ho- come its subjects if the current historians historians histo histo- rians are arc to be bo believed Forcible conversions C b by wholesale seem scorn the order of tho the day dav Between tho the Christian and tho the dispensations die dis between ob Greeks Turks Bulgarians Bul and Albanians Al there is litt little e choice of standards standards stand stand- ards of civilization ci Much of the information information in information in in- formation comes from Athens which presents events only from tho standpoint standpoint stand stand- point of Greek interests much is disseminated dis ilis- is b by the tho newspapers of Vienna Vionna which i is a fountain of canards Turkeys Turkey's Oppression Campaign Tho The Turkish government is determined determined deter deter- mined to drive the tho whole Greek population tion from Thrace according according- to accounts from Greek It IL has organized d a campaign n of oppression which is makin making making mak mak- in ing life ife im impossible for people of Greek affiliations in tho the country about Kirk Lulu Burgas and all the land which Bulgaria conquered in tho the first war and lost through h the final treaty By Greeks is meant the tho adherents of tho Greek church since sinco nationality is reco recognized ired as following religion rather than blood in those regions ro The Tho Greeks aro are pictured as having as desperate times in in Thrace under tho the rod of tho the Young Turk as the Bulgarians had bad in Macedonia under A Abdul dul Hamid The methods of terrorism aro are the thc came earne Irregular troops who get cot their living I bv hr loot and bands of so BO called br brigands all supposed to bo be acting under inspiration inspiration tion from Constantinople aro are overrun- overrun uin tho the country Burning villages os Ii light ht tho sky ky as during during- the tho days dars of war Mar cattle and sheep are driven away Wa pillage e and ra ravishing go on I Life ifo is made so 50 intolerable that Greek inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants tants are aro glad to escape to the tho coast with what bundles tho they can carr carry on their backs Athens Athena reports that refugees ees having arr arrived cd at h by ships ship and amid that more moro aro are waling waiting wait wal ing nJ on t tlc o coast to get ct away Orders Purposely Disregarded The head bead of the Greek Greck church at Constantinople Con Con- persuaded tho the British ambas ambassador ambassador am am- bas ador to remonstrate with tho the sublime sub sub- limo lime porte and orders were wore telegraphed to the local governors co to repatriate all ill refugees Truth says that these orders were meant only for tho the benefit and that the governors Jo cro were I given givon on i tho the word secretly to disregard regard them That was a familiar stratH stratagem lm of tho the old Turkish diplomacy when pre pressure suro from tho the powers became too acute acuto to bo be ignored The Tho Greek government on its part does not lack Jack enterprise at oppression ion if witnesses from non Greek sources bo ho credited Restrictive laws u against tho the Jews in havo have been made so strong that are arc leaving eavin that once port The battalions of 01 Greeks from Thrace seeking asylum and of departing J Jews number between 2000 and persons dail daily so that nil all shipping is crowded and the normal life and business are a UK as much disturbed as asther they the wore during tho the dave davs of tho the war An important a actor tor of or tuo upheaval Yal IH it that hat tho the Greeks of or and ami the Jews Jew's of were the most pros pros- prosperous porous peoples in those communities and ind their expulsion on means disaster anc and ruin to both A Troubled Honeymoon Meanwhile Tlc the tho new ruler of Albania Prince William illiam of Wied who bears the title itle is having a troublesome honeymoon with his domain Civil war which customarily is tho the chief industry of that more moro than half barbarous principality prin prill 3 il is proceeding in as usual The Greeks claim adherents out omit of the tho ho inhabitants of the southern portion of the now nm Albania These c people of leno known as is refuse re fuse fuso allegiance to the Fierce fl lighting fighting has be boon n going o ng 01 on about Koritza and nail the tho rebellion i is b said to be he l led rl b by from tho the Gre Greek k army armr Th The Epi rotes have hac time the ad ahan van tago tage ago of oC an or organized arm army pO possessed of some artillery Apart from froll a somali small force of sonic some Hi O or 2000 OIO the Albanians rely ul upon on volunteers rs re re- re from from the southern Albanian clan Xo No attempt to mobilize them has been becu made and th they scatter along the front fl fighting old free freo and ens way lear dear to their r hearts hut but making I the advance al of or a regular force au no cas task I Tho The Greek government disavows re reo I for who 00 have c ca cast t their thir fortunes with nith their I fl friends but the is H a reli on hl n against ain t Christian tian am tho the is for far fie ver than ii ill iii any au mere political The worst t ink tt of of- atrocity which tho time m ar lat East hn has in hi 1113 ninny lays days came from I thi thi- field The bodies holit's o of 20 2110 IO Albanian Mus I summon were l to hive hi bop found in a 1 church at tt Conla all crucified crucific alive Women and children were amen them So ton s of or similar stripe strip come from erl sources 5 th that t t this thi hi has been taken as a great cratton at the worst One Ono fact stani above aho Famine prevails pre th the Balka peninsula as its il II has to for forman man many yearl years vents The Tho war for on i proclaimed by bv tb th Ral n 11 lanc lia hRS wrought no c cure rc of or t the n old ohm feuds only nc nov v pha phases R of ol the sonic some disease 1 c. c |