Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-15

Chimara, for instance. the mortimer
 most district of Northern Eloirus, has 5000 Greeks and 1.000 A.hanians. Po-
 gonion, likewise on the extreme north ern frontier of Northern Epirus, con sisting of nearly 45 villages, is com pletely Creek The Kprytsa district has 4s, 900 Greeks. 10000 Alhanians and 5, GOO Turks. The district Of Argyros- castron has 17000 Greeks. 5000 Mos lem Albanians.
 The province of Epirus is like an is- land, surrounded on the west by the Adriatic and lonian seas. on the north 1 by the Acro:erauemeanS Mountains, l which at no place are lower than l. l 900 to 1.700 feet above the level of the 1 sea. In the east it is bounded by | Serbian and Greek Macedonia. and on
 the south is connected with Greece. There are three easy &ceesses to 1 Elirus, namely. the sea Ahe road 1 Kdrytsa-M -Mcnostir-Salorica. and the
 old Greek frontier. near Arta. There never has heen yet a route over the
 mountains to connect Northern Epi-
 rus with Albania.
 l! The intellectual industrial and commercial center of Erirus is Jan nina. Not ene commercial house can l there be mentioned doing business di- rectly from Korytsa to Avlora
 | Physically, Epirus is completely sep
 arated from Albana and is Joined only
 to Macedonia and to Greece.
 Economic, cultural and strategic Ireasons besides the nationaiistic, die ttate that Ep;rus go into either Greece
 or to Albania sooner or later, the tri-
 ificial barriers which may be imposed
 by a gathering of diplomats will be
 overridden either by the Greeks or by
 the Albanians
 ' In order to demonstrate. more clear
 ly this unity of Epirus. we must con-
 slider not only it's geographical unity
 but also it's cultural and economic uni
 ty. For. it is easier to break up a
 geographic unity than to break up ar l educational, religious or economic unit.
 The Greeks in Epirus maintain with out the assistance of any government cob teachers. The number of pupils from } to if years of aea; attending Greek schools in Fpiru3 is 2S,S20. ol . 10 per cent. of the total Greek popular tion of Epir2s. There are three col 5 leges for boys, namely, at Jannina . Kenitsa. and Korytsa. There is on' college for girls at Jannipa. l The Greek schools in the city o
 Korytsa give instructions .Iaily to 9 u 1 Z3o pl-.)l4S.
 e There are 1000 Greek churches ant . chapels and 1S9 monasteries bish s opries all depending upon the metro
 politan bishop of Jannina, who fo = 800 years has been not only the spirit ,, ual leader. but also the supervisor o c the Greek instruction il the province = AS against this enormous number c d Greek schools, colleges and churches
 the Albanians have only ore Gramma c school with 70 pupils.
 0 We have seen that tFr schools an e churches hayn been for 50C years un dt der the supervision of the metropoli 5, tan bishop" of Jannina. This fac c shows us clearly the intellectual an = spiritual unity and suggests also tn Y economic unity of Epirus with a cen e ter of gravity at Jannina,
 e Col. Murray of the British army in tt lecture given in 1914 in [ ondon 0 n Northern Epirus. after a visit of e. months in that province, went
 | length on the strategic unity of Ep l. rus. and pointed out the danger $ which the port of Greece would I It exposed if the bOundares; between A 1t bania and Greece were drawn whe1 i'd the powers drew them hastily in 191 l. that is at Cape StyIos and not at u S. River Granmala.