, 1881-04-17
WHAT GREECE GETS.

Awarded to Greece.
LONDON, April 14.-The1e is no doubt that
Greece has virtually accepted the proposed
frontier, Her reply to the proposals of the
Powers was delivered to the foreign Min
listers III an identical note.
London Spectator. Aprii5
The Eastern question has once more
reached a critical stage, The Powers,
hampcred by the secret designs Of some
among them, and BY q dread Of letting the
waters loose, have, it is asserted, receded
from the Berlin decision. They hare ac-
cepted a Turkish proposal to give Greece
Thessaly, instead Of Thessaly and Epirus.
They assign, indeed, a morsel Of Epirus, but
they stop far short Of Jannil,a, and do not
even concedc Prevesa, without which Greece
is never safe.. though, according to one
account, Preyesa is to be dismantled The
gain to Greece in territory is considerable
but she does not acquire the most important
of Greek cities, Jannina, or the most threat
ening Of Greek fortresscs, Preycsa, OF the
most necessary Of Greek provinces, Epirus,
where the most warlike section OF the race
reside. 1t now remains to coerce Athens
into accepting the terms. L is believed that
the Court will yield, but It Is far from GER
greatly to be hoped they viii not. The tine
Seems to have arrived for them, which ar
rivcs to all nations, to show that it is dam
gerous to betray them. If they take Jannina
and keep it they will be safe for a century,
only legitimate heirs Of Byzantiunl. II NOT.
they will remain Il small alld powcrless State
III the Balkan Peninsula.
WHAT GREECE ACQUIRES.
If the inhabitants of the ceued territory
can be induced peacefully to pass under the
finally closed. There is no reason to believe
that much opposition will be made The
boundary which Turkey proposed and Greece
accepted, starting FROM the <Egean at point
three miles south Of l'latamona, keeping
southwerstcrly course to the peak Of Mount
until it REACHES Il point on the Conference
boundary, passing down six miles to the west
Of Metzoyo Until it strikes the river Arta.
and so arriving at tle gulf Of that name, ill
cllldes the whole Of the fertile plain OF Thes-
sally, and only leaves to the Turks in Eplrus
the mountainous and barren portion which
lies to the west. OF all this region the in-
habitants are mainly Greek. In the western
part Of the Dlain, indeed, are Mussulman
peasants whose swartlly complexion and
creeks or Sltys, but genuine O5manlis. They
are, in fact, the descendants Of colonists who
came from Asia Minor ut the time Of the con-
called Turkha1 Bcy, l1d who were settled
here rs 4 barrier against the marauding ten
denotes of the ncighboring Christian noun
tai,ecrs. AS they came chiefly from Koniah,
the ancient 1eonium. they are known BY the
name of ko,liarotes, and they have still re-
tanned many of their ancient virtues; but the
political hostility which has long existed be-
tween them and the Greeks, has developed
among thcn1 spirit Of fanaticsm rarely
found among the genuine, Turks of Asia
AxI.1 49, o. t}rx
liam plains tho land is for the most part the
property of Mussnl'nan Rcys, but the peasant
population wl.icl, cuItiyates it is Greek Or
kutzo-Vlack BY nationality and Christian by
religion. According to statistics reported BY
the Lon'l9M Times. the four p, districts r Of
ditza, and Yircal!a-contan in. round
numbers 100000 inhabitants, Of whom
about 1900 are Christians and 10000 Mus
sulnlans. Of the Christians, about 5 per
cent are Elacks and the remainder Greeks.
There are 3773 estates with Christian tenartry
Of y, ,575 souls. At the time Of the Crimean
war all these estates were the property Of
Mussuln,ans, but now cigIty-siX have passed
into the hands OF Christians nnd twenty~sev-
en- are owned by Christians and Turks joint
greater portion Of the land in Thess;ly be-
longs to the dominant race, the soil is rapid.
~ passing to the more true1al, iaborlous: and
entcrprising rayall. When the territory
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ri.st ays any d st wern ff.rI viase CON-
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~ Ia,,;,'., s ,"I aftnr.ar,i .ntj ,rho i;sLis
st;i' r..t,., t % ,,a,ncs nf rar nrrvians nrn.
,'r;n+nr ,,,nSa aeoandnnts nov. o,,i1;rato
tha, ns ton,;Ts n,,1 ',r'nh,. sna fa',t;..s
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.na,ts II Ia,,,.r tj'; NAV h.. honns arr. on
t1.r,a;,cd h. IA nen,,ic that tI;o wrnnG dona
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PEL1oS AND ossA.
The boundary also includes the hlly strip
of country which separates the great plain
and the nort..~rll portion Of tie Gulf of Volo
from the tsyean Sea. 10 the south Ot 0lyn-
pus, and separated from it by the famous
Vale OF Tempe, is the gray peak OF Ossa,
from which rims in a soutflcaSterly direction
the pelion range. The epithet Of ''Quiver-
ing with foliage" which Homer applied to
Pelion, is still applicable. The hill-sidcs are
still covered with oak, beech. elm, olive.
weeping willow, cypress, arbutus. myrtle,
and laurel, and iii the orchards and gardens
Of the picturesque villages is to be found
abundance of walnuts, chcstnuts, figs, pears,
mubcrrics, allti peaches. The villages are
among the most tIouri5ling of European
Turkey, not On account OF tile fertility of the
soil, for there is much less arabic land than
in tile plain, but oil account of tile cnterpris-
ing character of the inhabitants. These are
ali Christian, and thoroughly Greek in
fo,, n,,J ca,fi,nant Ji7f,nit,rf, t1,a,r