Show BITS OF GREEK HISTORY at this abia time when the little kingdom of greece apparently Is at the eve of entering upon another unequal struggle IT for the liberation of a part of her race from oppression a brief revlow of her past history is in of interest it il took the turks about one hundred years and this when their power was at the highest to subdue the greeks 0 mple tely it was waa about the year 1600 that ancient hellas was reduced to a turkish brov provance ace A couple of centuries later the venetians wrested the southern part of the country from the sultans but were unable to keep it during all this thin time the be country was a rich source of income to the sultans eul taue because the greeks carried on a aur lebing trade and all the abe profit beyond who what was necessary for keeping the people alive found its way into the pockets pi oketa of the sultans and their off officers leers the revolutionary ideas of the eighteenth century however fertile soil in we brtek nation wuen russia made her ber threatening move against turkey during the reign ot of catherine 11 II the greeks prepared tu to strike for their liberty the russian campaign was waa not quite so BO successful as an was expected but in greece it had bad the effect of rousing the people particularly the young men tu to a consciousness of kusir degraded petition numerous patriotic societies were formed and in 1821 these were strong enough to 0 o venture an active struggle ruggle at with turkey the revolution was waa commenced which after nine years of sanguinary corn com bate ended in the establishment of the greek kingdom during the struggle be european powers generally favored greece particularly ticul arly france where the movell movement nent that leu led to the so go called july revola non lion was disturb disturbing log all parts of society russia on the assumed a cool ji tude for the remon that uie the cairs themselves theme elves dreamt of the dismemberment ment of turkey and hated to see ee anybody else take the initiative in 1825 it looked as an it if the turks might win the day but when wey they to in the of weir anticipated victory visited the rebellious provinces with bloodshed under the most barbarous until europe became sick of the daily bulletins of the be carnival of blood the powers exerted themselves in constantinople in behalf of humanity this thin how bow ever did not have the slightest effect and ana finally the foreign admirals were authorized to destroy a part of the turkish fleet which they did very effectively the turks now received aid from egypt mehemed all sent his son ibrahim pasha with a well equipped army over to greece and the be insurgents ini now between two fire seemed doomed to defeat 10 lo this tbt crisis cur kishol I 1 made bb attack on turkey not in order to aid tb the greek but to corry carry out the program of russia basela to advance howarda the dardanelles Darda nelles this saved the Greeks in 1830 the sultan was waa compelled to be recognize the greek kingdom it was only a small mall part though of greek territory that obtained autonomy the rest remained under turkish misrule the patri patriotic otio ao clelles in the liberated country now BOW became a association with the project of ultimately uniting oil all turkish provinces con containing a large greek population this pro gram eram has never been abandoned in 1862 great britain presented borne of the ionian islands to greece an B a mark of good will to the newly elec elected tedi edg in 1866 an occurred on ei cote cete perhaps instigated by the greek volun volunteer hastener baat has enem to the island but the turks succeeded in crushing the fe rebe rebellion rebeil ilion loB and as deuil covered tho the island with blood without protest protect from the powers in 1869 war seemed inevitable between greece and turkey it came to nothing chiefly for or the tellson that the greeks cad bad no with which to equip an army during durine the russo turkish war in 1878 ur greek invaded thessaly Thea ialy but retreated on representations made by and aad received BB an a reward for shiso alb when ibbe the account was waa made upp up a large part of Theia aly aud alata thin was la in 1880 five years later during the ened outbreak in roumelia Bou mella greaff sent an army consisting of m men to the macedonian frontier the abo european powers then recalled mali chafer ambassadors from athens athena and she he greek finally gave in chiefly bec becaro atil of the lack of necessary funds the present imbroglio Is but one IS la in a long history of the coald boott lit between the be greeks aad the that it Is led by the lenes no DO one doubts for the possible europe to tremble |