Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-19
THE aREoO-TURK1sH QUARREL.

4
With a new face. When in 1880 the u
rown of the newly constituted '.
Kingdom of Greece was offered to p
leopold of -Coburg, that sagaci- O
Jus prince declined it on the ground u
hat 1.-The boundaries of the young u
tate were too restricted" Fifty years u
If agitation for the rectification OF
The Greek frontier have proved the
of his forecast. Within
.wo years the boundary has been ad-
vauced further north, SO as TO extend
from the Gulf Of Arta to the Gulf OF
Volo, aud this line, adopted July Il,
1882, has been maintained. Including
the islands. under Grecian. rule, the
area embraced was about 18 900 square
miles. That Of ancient Greece was
about $4,000, Including Thessaly and
Epirus, though not Macedonis. The
ancient boundary of Hellas began
from a point little north of the
Vale Of Tempe, running over Mount
Olympus and following the ridges OF
the hills to the Gulf of Avlona, on
the Adrlatlc. This frontier the mod
ern Greeks have never ceased to de-
sire, while they have cast longing
eyes on Crete,a Cyprus, Rhodes and
other importantsislands. In 1864 MT.
Gladstone gave them the lonian
Islands, which had been placed under
the protection of Great Britain by
tho treaty of Paris IN 1915. The Greek
territory at the time Of the Berlin
Conference had an area of 1924
square, miles, with a population OF
!, ,679, IT'S. Il. '7i I
At the congress sof Paris, April 8,
1856, Count Walewski, for the Elm
peror Napoleon, brought the Greek
question forward. He. summed up
the discussion as showing that none
fof the powers questioned the ne-
cessity of betteEing the conditioner
Greece, and that France, England
| and Russia recognized the lmpor-
tance of acting together to that end.
4 When the RHsso-T urkish war broke
out four; years ago, Greece, ,.in defer-
ence to- the great powers, tkePt It's
troops in hand and fOrbore to COM
plicate the Situation by attacking
turkey in the rear. Patriotic nco,li.l
mittees, however. were formed, And
bands of tyolnpteerSi cEossed Mlo
fhessaly, Macedonia and Epirus, call
ling the Inhabitants TO arhis against
the Il Tarkish hgovernmelltsaIn!T !Thessapy
Il the invaders came to grief and when
!; General, aSoutzo, with a body OF
J. Greek regulars, entered the province
! he was ordered back almost imme-
). diately. A,guerilla warfare, in which
the son of Soutzo distinguished him
. self, was waged until Maych, when,
, as the Turks were advancing i'll over
! twhelming force, the British consuls
: from thePiraus, and Salonica arrived
aud persuaded the volunteers, to re-
: cross the frontier aud the peasants to
I dispsrse to their homes. On this act
> the Greeks found their claim for
, British assistance, alleging that this
8 consular interference alone preserved
J. 'Thessaly to the Porte. The Greek
: operations in Macedo onia and Epirhs
r were of less consequence ief
& = On the assembling Of the congress-
o of Berlin, Greece, not being one o.
{: the signatories of the treaty Of Paris
d of 1856 and Of the revision of 1871
r was refused delibesative voice
8 Toward the end of the conferences
T. however, France, by Mr.. Waddington
/. brought forward the claims Of Greece
}, The thirteenth protocol of the con
If gress and the etwenty-fourth article o
d the treaty were devoted to the Greei
3, question. The congress "invited'
- the Porte to arrange with Greece TO
o a rectification of frontiers i'll Thessal.
,e and Eplrus, and expressed the opin
's ion that this rectification might FOL
Or low the Valley Of the Salamyrias o.
re the side of the Egean, aud that @
is the Kaianas on the side OF the lonia
j. Sea. and i: was provided in articl
=. "a. Sin the event Of the Sublime Port
y aud Greece being unable to agree uI
le on the rectification of frontier sue
le gested in the thirteenth protocol c
lg the congress of Berlin, Germany
p, Austria-Hungsry. France, Great Br
be tain, Italy and Russia reserve to then
is selves to offer their mediation to tn
II, two parties to facilitate negotiations
d. The English plenipotentiaries di
Of not like all this at all, especially as
IT. was clear that France was acting
IL behalf of Greece at the solicitatic
ey or at least with the assent of &c
us many. Prince Bismarck declared in
'se singular little speech that EuroI
'ts owed much to France aud begged NJ
nd WaddiDgton to name something whit
nd might be agreeable to France. Z
re this hint it was that Mr.. Waddingtt
se- made his appeal for Greece. On u
an advice as is believed of the Engli
cb, ambassador at Constautinople Il
'or Sultan paid little heed to the Gre
nd features Of the Berlin conference al
ge, treaty, and the treaty was mot
nd month old when Sir, Charles Dils
lily by All adroit question in the house
The commons, forced the Hon. Robt
lu- Bourke, under-secretary tor fOrei
rti- affairsto admit that Turkey had pl
ag- pared a formal refusal to accede
at the recommendations Of the congre
Jay When the Porte was finally forced
but appoint delegates to consider
AXE Greek question, these delegates p
the crastiuated and trifled with the WI
ave till Greece grew angry and appeal
J is to the powers for mediation. In MI
the 1879, Mr.. Wadding ton proposed tll
eft the. powers should agree in princil
his to the request for mediation
his urge on the Porte and the Heller
eas government to reopen negotiate
Of at Constantinople. In June, 1850,
the the invitation of Earl Granville
can supplementary conference OF Ber
Orn was held at which the Turks p
ier. posed line drawn from, kherami
hat at the northern extremity Of
for Gulf of Volo, to the town of Al
for passing south of Larissa, while
ex- northern extremity Of Corfu and
Guiding tne nOrtncfn sloPes VI ho'
;uss Olympus. The Turkish propo'
the were rejected unanimously as not
tied cording with the spirit OF the Ber
hole protocol of 1873. The plenipoter
Just aries finally agreed on the line p
ally posed by France and supported
IN England and Italy, which pr"ce
lass from the mouth Of the kalamis
all the Ionian Sea. follows that river
,der it's sources at Hau Kalibaki, RUM
live along the watershed of the NoJu
ex- Karasou and Mavroneri onsthe nc
at it and of the Kalamas, Arta, Aspro
rers tamo and Salamyrias on the so,
for till it reaches Mount Olympus. wi
will ridge it crosses aud follows 10 its
treme limits on the Egean Sea.
line gave Greece most of Epirus
doc Thessaly. leaving Metzova and
Lake of Janina to the south.
area of the Turkish territory
e"'S proposed TO be ceded was 22
: square kilometres, and the pop
h;s ton 499 1865. On the 29th of )
with last the six great powers, in a
sinvited" the Sultan and Greco
accept this frontier line which
d the was declared, had been ''unanimo
lted. recognized as being i'll confor,
with the spirit aud the terms OF
treaty of Berlin and the thirie