Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-05-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TIIE BRIGAND BANDS IN THESSALY. N. Tricoupis, the Hellenic Minister of Foreign Affairs, has addressed the following two circulars to the representatives of Greece, accedited to the signatory Powers, on the mbject of brigandme in Thessaly and the Delimitation Question. The first runs the  '. Athens, March 31, lam.  "Sir—After all that has been written to you by my predecessor on the deplorable condition of the border provinces, I should not now have troubled you on the subject if the last reports from our consular authorities in Thessaly did not draw attention to the recurrence of brigandage in alarming proportions. According to these reports the country runs the greatest danger from the movementu of these bends, which have hitherto been kept in restraint by the unusual severity of the winter. Now, however, ae the season of tins weather has sot in, the country is open to murder, pillage, and destruction at the hands of these marauders. At the present moment there are 600 brigands in the neighbourhood of Mount Olympus, under the command of chiefs well known for their ferocity, who also have under them bands which infest the districts of Trikale, Kardidja, Pharsala, and Cassia. Our consular agent in Tribute gives , the names of the leaden and numbers of the principal bands. They are as follows: 1. Jean Montero, with five followers; 2. Jean Quiola, with ten followers; 3 Basile Psora, with Site followers; 4. Athena. Bidet-sots, with 15 followers; 5. Roustan Bey, an Albanian, with 20 followers; 6. Trafil, an Albanian Mussulman, with 15 followers; 7. Assin Bey, an Albanian Muscat.man, with 10 followers; 8. Oostra Plaster's, with 10 followers; 9. Papa, Klurnons, with 20 followers; 10. Klityika, with 10 followers; 11. Jean Soupikioti, with 10 followers; and 12. Leonidas Samarinaio, with three followers. Every day murders and abductions are reported. No one dares to leave the villages, and businese is at a complete standstill. As you have been informed by former despatches, the civil and military authorities are entirely powerless. The situation becomes daily more critical, and it is impossible to nay where this state of affairs will end. You may make what use of this communication you may think proper. " Receive, du., Teicouris." The second letter is as follows : .  " Athens, April 3. "Sir—Prom the reports of our consular authorities in Janina and Prevesa, it appears that, in consequence of the instructions sent by the Porte to the Governor-General of Epirus, he, with Abeddin Pasha, the Governor-General of Salonica, has called together the chief men of .Prevesa, Paratnythis, Ifargartiti, and Philiata,with the intention of devising means to throw obstacles in the wayof the Comtnission which has been appointed by the signatory Powers of the Treaty of Berlin to form the new line of demorcalion. The Albanians are being organised for resistance; they are already furnished with arm., and are under the command of the notorious AMA Boy Koparis. You will please draw the attention of the Power to which you are accredited to them facto, which °how once more the imperative necessity for bringing forward the solution of the frontier question. 'retreat-is."  F.