Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-03
BALKANS CONTINUE TO BE RAZED BY WAR;
 HORRORS UNABATEI
Fearful Conditions Exist But At- tentiOn Diverted From Them
 by Other World Troubles.

lbl Nldl tNuhlE Dl liH Idihau W al hao brought no rest to that long suffering region Thrace. Macedonia and Alba mia are boiling with racial and religi- ous strife Stories of fighting, of per secution and of massacres come tO the London papers from many correspond- ents, and are printed in small type with little comment Europe has come to accept these conditions as a matter of course.
 The changes of boundaries and of sovereignty which resulted from the peace treaties, and the launching of Albana as an autonomous state. are 1 responsible for the new era of strug- gle and butchery Every power con cerned in the new allotments is try- ing to impress not only It's laws but its own state religion upon those who have become its subjects. if the cur rent historians are to be believed
 Forcible Conversions" by whole saie seem the order of the day. Be- tween the Christian and the Mussal- man dispensations, between Greeks. Turks, standards of civilization. Much of the information comes from Athens which presents events only from the standpoint of Greek interests; much is disseminated by the newspapers of Vienna. which is a fountain of can ards.
 The Turkish government is deter. mined to drive the whole Greek pop ulation from Thrace, according to ac- counts from Greek sources It has or ganized a campaign of oppression which is making life impossible for people of Greek affiliations in the country about Kirk Kilisse, Lulu Bur gas and all the land which Bulgaria conquered in Che first war and lost through the final treaty By Greeks is meant the adherents of the Greek church, since nationality is recognized as following religion rather than blood in those regions.
 The Greeks are pictured as having as desperate times in Thrace under the rod of the Young Turk. as the Bulga. rians had in Macedonia under Abdul Hamid The methods of terrorism arc the same
 Irregular troops, who get their liv- 7 ing by loot. and bands of so-called bri- gands, all supposed to be acting under inspiration from Constantinople. are over running the country Burning vil- , lages light the sky, as during the days of war; cattle and sheep and driven away pillage and rayishing go on. Life Is made SO intolerable that Greek . inhabitants are glad to escape to thc coast with what bundles they can car. Try on their backs, Athens reports that I25.0O0 refugees have arrived at Sal onika by ships, and that 15,00O more 5 | are waiting on the coast to get away. The head of the Greek church al Constantinople persuaded the British ambassador to remonstrate with the Sublime Porte. and orders were tele. graphed to the local governors to re. patriate all refugees. Truth" says that these orders were meant only for the Ambassadors benefit and that the governors were given the word secretly to disregard them. That was a familiar strategem of the old Turk 3 ish diplomacy, when pressure from the
 Powers became too acute to be ig nored
 The Greek government on its part - does not lack enterprise at oppression [ if witness from non-Greek sources be
 credited Restrictive laws against the
 Jews in Salonika have been made so f strong that S0,OOO are leaving that once prosperous port The battalions oi Greeks from ThTace seeking asylum and of departing Jews. number be- s tween two and three thousand per S sons daily SO that all shipping i. crowded and the normal life and bus mess are as much disturbed as they % were during the days of the war An q important factor of the upheaval ii
 that both the Greeks of Thrace and
 the Jews of Salonika were the most l prosperous peoples in those commun |. ities. and their expulsion means dis aster and ruin to both
 Meanwhile the new ruler of Al
 bania, Prince William of Wind who ,- bears the title Mpret is having g troublesome honeymoon with his do
 main Civil war, which customarill + Is the chief industry of that mort g than half barbarous princlpality il a proceeding as usual The Creek
 claim 100000 adherents out of th' A 550,O0O inhabitants of the southern y portion Of the new Albania Thes' n. people of Epirus known as Epirote.
 refuse allegiance to the Mpret Fierce n lighting has been going on abou lf koriaa. and the rebellion is said t' be led by officers from the Greel
 Army. The Epirotes have the ad ' vnniages of an organized army pos e scssod of some artillery Apart iron s. small force of gendarmes, som
 l.500 or 2.0O0. thc Albanians rel,
 upon volunteers recruited from th l- Southern Albanian clon NO attemp )f to mobilize them has been made am
 they scatter along the front hghtinl ' in the old free and easy way dea e. Co their hearts. but making the ac m vance of 8 regular force an easy tasl
 The Greek government disavows r,
 .rruEibiitr for nr Gteoh officer