Evening star., 1924-08-24

preme bigwigs of western Europe
including Macdonald, Herriot and
Theunis, and probably Mussolini.
X X
Grcece-In my summary of August
2 1 related how a detachment OF
Greek military on the Bulgarian
border had summarily executed II
Bulgarians as Comitadjis operating
on Greek soil A League of Nations
mixed commission Gncluding one
Greek, one Bulgarian. one English
man and one Belgian) investigated
the matter and unanimously found
that the executed Bulgarians were
innocent peasants. 1t seems that in
a village on the Greek side of the
border, with mixed population of
Greeks and Bulgarians, some shots
were fired and bombs exploded. no.
body being hurt. Some of the Greeks
lost their heads with the melan-
choly results noted. The Greek
government gave every facility to the
investigation. The incident was
typically Balkan. Here is something
worth recording. American sanitary
engineers have drained the swamps
about Corinth, Greece. which for cen
turies have bred malarial mosquitoes
and damned Corinth as a place OF
residence. The work was done in
cidental to establishment by our Near
East Relief, in an abandoned barrack
of Corinth, of Greek and Armenian
orphan refugees from Asia Minor and
the Caucasus.
The piddling remnant of the old
town in its heyday the fastest" and
architecturally one of the most su-
perb cities in Greece was almost
completely wiped out by an earth
;- r;k
the isthmus between the Peloponnes-
sus and the Balkan peninsula, is, OF
course, one of the finest sites in the
world and the view from the Akroo
Corinthus is generally held to be,
saving that from Parnassus, the most
superb in Greece. Nothing now meets
the eye to suggest the magnificence
of Periander's town except the seven
Doric columns of the temple OF
Apollo. Few traces remain of the
famous highways which ran to the
crowded quays of Lecheaum and
Cenchreae, lined with temples, pal
aces, baths. statues, great cypress
trees and fine houses, as described by
Pausanias. The fount of Pirener
the Acropolis, still supplies the water
which of old was SO priced that the
poets commonly referred to Corinth
as "the city of Pirene." Some frag.
ments lie about of the marble struc-
ture above it which was the center
of the ancient city's life.
On the old site the~e is now ham,
let of perhaps a thousand souls. The
new town which has sprung up since
the earthquake Is about three miles
therefrom. 1t is Of some commercial
Importance as a shipping point for
currants, but of mean appearance and
of scarcely 5000 population. Sic Tran.
sit Gloria.
United States OF America.-It was
found after all that the harbor some
fifteen miles North Of Angmagsalik
on the Eastern coast of Greenland de-
clared suitable as refueling base for
our flyers would not do; nor did con-
ditions improve at Angmagsalik
Longer delay might spoil all, as our
supporting fleet was getting very
low in fuel and other supplies.
It was consequently decided to make
the long hop from Reykjavik, Iceland
to Fredericksdal, just west of Cape
Farewell (the southeast tip of Green
land) S25 miles. Therefore, on the
18th our two planes tried to take Oh
from Reykjavik harbor, but in vain
partly because of-the extraordinarily
heavy load Of fuel that they carried
and partly because of heavy Swelle