Show bika balkans ns bandit spell JL daring of these outlaws Is celebrated in song and story vienna vienna was still thrilled by tile spectacular trial of mencha Carni carnicle clu a young macedonian gi girl ri who tit nt the opera last abny killed todor penaza za a notorious balkan ban dit chief when news issued front from oresco that uio tile Braban la and dagou alls brigand bands that for years terrorized file inhabitants of mount blount olympus lind had been wiped out tile heads of the lie leaders on which a total of dritch inas had been set bet were cre taken to X ater fril a provincial capital mid fuld exhibited to tile public Ite potts of balkan outlawry appear so BO frequently in fit the newspapers that it a casual reader read er might conclude that southeastern astern wits was largely populated by brigands brigande bri gands lie ho would not bo far wrong for in that part of tit alio world banditry hand Itry to Is oil nn indent ancient institution with inn firm roots in III the cu customs of the people and it if every one Is 14 not n bandit all are arc nt at least potential bail bandits upon it time there was a inn ban dl alt it Is tills this phrase that lint niost niest of lio lie bedtime starles in fit the balkans kans begins the alie bandit la Is also almo the liero bero of folk songs sona at tile village hinge feasts lefia tB when the wine storta starts flowing tales ales of lila ills strength tin and t bravery are arc chanted chant cil to the ni onoto tones tonea of reed pipe will drum druin the boys of sofia Mo monastir and athens Atti etis do not enviously read of miller detectives like nick carter or like dick the hie thin paper imper mackeil volumes which they cleverly tilde in their and readers tin and ravenously devour uldale lillo tin nn unsuspecting teacher thinks they file aio following the ho lesson contain stories of superb indita like HIM hubo milli red grange jack bomp dent P soy scy and ianno muriul would mean nothing to tho the balkan youth who dreinis of emulating the exploits of condyles or todor Alexand alexandroff rolf condy Us Hs rose inso front from it chief fighting tile turks and in mace donla to of war in III greece and todor Aleandro fT although altho uga only a bandit lender amida mid unmade prime ministers in III bulgaria some are arc political heelers 1 in truth b binks high ni a profession in tile ta its arite tItIo ners fit ii power wealth fume fame hid and sollie dellill they are aiu i and of two distinct type 9 political tind the fonner aro usually tilly goft committees 4 will fire arc trilled which niel lils they aro are especially netho tn III bordor border provinces and usually receive secret support front fanni the purlous balkan governments there nie are danere it groups with dit dl ferent political but all nir unmercifully tho lio native natho peasants shepherds and in it many pints parts of Mace macedonia donin they carry cany on oil im 1111 underground anili government levying lell lK billines il ups liNes ilk bensing justice alli covici recruits those who lio refuse to su rill hilt lit to their dictates are punished by death dead therefore they hey fear in tile lie hearts of tile populace lae an ali I 1 had on my lily avay ny tit alio balkans to 0 o turkey vividly advill follst tes this lils filet fact at triestin the of 1020 1920 1 I bot irIM tho lio orient client F apio s for con the coli wo we rode through hlll 1111 hol boio 0 the lir signs of war the arld s i evere etc lolomi up tip tanil temporary ahti structures of wood had been built to lo t tile ile illo place pi ice of tin allt old steel or mono itono ilis ivere ei ordered tu to get out and walk across ado a these as there was wan doubt that tile trestles would hear up tile loaded train on the second day out of trieste when wo we had left nish behind and were passing through the heart of macedonia them the passengers passenger s were just rising front from their heir berths berth when ma train suddenly stopped my companion an armenian merchant of Salon ild looked out tho window aud gazed down along tile lie truck track ahead ile iio immediately med lately drew in ills his licad head and greatly excited shouted hurriedly lie took a wallet from ills his cont coat pocket and hid it under the mattress of ills berth and opening it suitcase lie ho removed a packet of papers which lie throw into the wa stepan of tile the wash basin A knock on tho the door wondering what had so terrified my fell fellow ow ti traveler I 1 looked out myself and saw mosed before the locomotive ft group of men in ragged uniforms and armed with rifles unshaven will and lorce fierce looking fellows fellows I 1 recalled reading only a rew few weeks before that the orient express had been held up in mace macedonia donin hy by it a band of bulgarian tile tho passengers robbed und and rt number of serbs gerbs taken orr off and held for ran ransom and I 1 was as silently than thankful k unit that except for a few french fi kincs to pity pay for meals in tho the dining car nil all my lily funds were in a letter of credit only by myself that my lily watch was or of the dollar sort eort and flint aliat I 1 was riot not a promising can candidate didato for ransom the train begun to move the coal scrambled aboard train rob bing ing tactics in fit macedonia I 1 decided differ front phoso in vogue in III america dint dim memories of besse james and tile tho more recent impression of tho the movies told tile ine that hint tile tho standard american method was to line up the passengers along the track aind go through their pockets also n special detachment of bandits I 1 re culled usually went inboard the halted train arid rifled tit the baggage the train rapidly gained full speed and my companion and I 1 sat bat down on the lie lower loer hunk bunk of the compartment und suited for the cor to come collie ond and search ui its rn fit a bourso whisper lie he sald said they nio fire terrible blo benl they may kill hill ual there cattle came 11 knock oil the lie loor door tile the merchant was ni ith fright flight besl alint lint Is I 1 it Il dejeu tier ost eat seral cinie came baek the hie reply the dining cur was ns announcing breakfast smoke room gossip not fanciful out in tile corridor wits is a dapper lieutenant mith alli and alding stock IN ho greeted tile 1110 with alth 11 a lion bon jour join wid end said lic ht was tile the of serbian soldiers which lind had just boarded tile lie train and would accompany it to tho lio frontier the govern tit nt belgrade had taken tills this pro arc lution el ag attacks ever slauo the express had been hold held up two weeks bufore on oil li carlig tills ills the armenian mer climit smiling sheepishly took ills his front under the lie and put it buck back in fit ills pocket ind and removed lio bachet inn kot of papers slightly damp but other otherwise uninjured front from the waste asto pan ills illg ini stake was natural is cs the lie roles iola of und and soldier in fit tills this corner comer of europe tire are often in during dm in the he remainder of tho the journe y to constantinople the passengers talked of nothing liiK but bandits bandits mio lio lind had become bei generals genci genc als rals provincial KO pi nors mid and even cm prime ministers md ind it serb seib boasted ills king wits was lio lie descendant of a famous b gund 1 or f tile clisly call nineteenth century whose nanie aunie wits as kara black alack george front whom tho the ruling family of yugoslavia takes tabes its name dame of Kara geor IF avle kara george deorge fought the borks with much tile tho same tactics as the dul bul garlan comit adjis use against the 0 serbs gerbs in Blage macedonia donla today every passenger d to have had at least one experience with bandits alt all had been shot at some hail been wounded abducted ransomed rans omed yot not to bo be outdone out done I 1 told them of the exploits of the gunmen of my natlie native new york and let them believe belleve that I 1 was personally acquainted with the tha most notorious all AllA this talk instead of making tho the bandits seem more real made me feel as it they were of tile the same game nature no as ghosts gli on arriving arT iving at stamboul however news that two near east relief workers whom I 1 was to visit in cilicia had been murdered a few days before by turkish chet talis tabs brigands brigande bri gands in peace and irregulars in war made the bandits again realistic kingdoms for strong arms it Is only a few months ago that the greek island of samoa oft off tile the west coast of asla asia minor tell lell into the liandi of two notorious notor loua brigands brigande bri gands the gaga des brothers and their followers this exploit brought to mind the days when any daring adventurer could have had bad it a kingdom kIngdo nj in the aegean for tile the courage und and skill to seize it in the hie fifteenth century before the turks won control of the whole eastern mediterranean all tile the islands in tills this corner of the world as well as tile greater part of what Is now greece were ruled by so called barons counts dukes and princes who usual ly nvere cre nothing but glorified often fugitives from justice in their native lands la in western europe still earlier anany a farm lad ad who had come collie to the levant as it ft crusader remained to rule over an opal isle or it a rocky peninsula and even under tile tho turk a few intrepid souls sul sue ceedee in maintaining their supremacy tit in remote places where sultan id i n il d nominally but alire ills hla oell cluid never penetrated to return alive tills this tradition of banditry built up through centuries still lives in th the 0 aegean although the modern bandit la Is seldom able to carry out an exploit in the grand manner the gamades brothers succeeded in holding samos for only a few days TWO greek battleships tle ships were sent from piraeus to oust them faced with ten inch guns guna the lie brigands brigande bri gands were forced to take to tile lie mountains with all tho the occupants of tile the local jail whom they had liberated on their first day in power new york times |