Greek protest against "Denationalizing" methods of Italian army occupation.

To the Editor of the New York Times:
In THE TIMES recently appeared an interview with Brig. Gen. Scriven on which, as a native of Epirus or
as he terms it, Southern Albania, i ask to be permitted to make a few remarks.
It is true that Italy has built good roads in Valona and in Northern Epirus. To an American General who
knows little of the struggle between the Italian forces of occupation and the natives, the good roads,
naturally, have made a lasting impression.
But is General Scriven well informed when he makes the statement, "The Italian troops, without violence, and indeed, at the request of the inhabitants themselves, occupied the interior towns to the ruins, as some of them then where, of Tepeleni, Argiro-Castro, Premeti, Liaskoviki, Santa-Quaranta and Porto-Palermo"?

Promises Greece that her forces will not go further in that direction.

Air. raid on Serb towns.

Allies' bombs cause heavy damage
- Greek Prince Tells of Taube Attack on Saloniki

London, Thursday, Jan. 6- An Athens dispatch to The Times says that Italy has promised Greece that here forces shall not advance beyond the frontier of Northern Epirus.
A dispatch to the Paris Temps from Rome says:
"The Italian military authorities, regardless of the impatience and nervousness of the newspapers, continue to conceal the details of the operations of the Italian Army in Albania. This reserve is justified by circumstances, yet the situation admits of some general information.

Allies' recognition of the Justice of the Greek Claims.

To the editor of the New York Times:

I read in THE TIMES a letter from Mr. Chekrezi in which he criticizes your editorial article "Albania."
Mr. Chekrezi, of course, criticises your statement that the Greek claim to the provinces of Korytsa and Argyrocastro is valid. But what are the facts?
His statements that the Greeks consider the Christian inhabitants of these districts Greeks because they are members of the Orthodox Church is false and misleading. Mr. Venizelos has never based his claim to these provinces on any other argument except on the will of the majority to be united with Greece.
The Albanians claim that every Northern Epirote is an Albanian because he speaks an Albanian patois. On that score every German-speaking Helvetian is a German.

Ask restoration of Northern Province as a Free State.

The Italian Government is charged with depriving the people of Northern Epirus of their freedom in a telegram sent to President Wilson and Premiers Clemenceau, Lloyd George, and Venizelos by the Pan Epirotic Union in America yesterday. The message, made public here through the Greek Bureau of Information, says that representatives in the United States invested with power by the Epirots had proclaimed at Worcester, Mass, today the union of Northern Epirus with Greece.

Concern felt in Italy.

Rome, March 20- Advices received here from Athens that a royal decree has been issued proclaiming the annexation of Northern Epirus, Albania, to Greece is causing some concern, the annexation being regarded in official circles as a violation of the decision of the London conference concerning Albania.
A dispatch from Athens March 8 said Greece had decided to proceed to the complete financial and administrative assimilation of the provinces of Northern Epirus, Deputies from which had already been seated in the Greek Chamber

Published: March 21, 1916

League Notified that Athens is ready to sent army forward.

A Greek army will surely invade the "Northern Epirus," District of Albania unless the persecution of Greeks is stopped, according to N.J. Cassavetes, Director of the Pan-Epirotic Union, who issued a statement yesterday on the danger of a new Balkan war.
"Greece has addressed a strong protest to the League of Nations," Mr. Cassavetes says "against the systematic persecution of the Greeks of Northern Epirus by the Albanian Government.

Union of Northern Epirus with Greece is Demanded.

Paris, May 21, (French Wireless Service)-M. Spyromilios, a Deputy in the Greek Chamber from Northern Epirus, has presented to President Wilson a memorandum on the situation there.
The memorandum says that the inhabitants have had to struggle continuously against the Turks and the Albanians, and demands the union of the region with Greece.

Published: May 22, 1919

Also Declared to be stirring up Religious Hatred in Northern Epirus

Saloniki, April 25
The Italian Government has closed all the Greek schools in Argyrocastro, Northern Epirus, and has sent 100 Italian school teachers there, according to information received by the Hellas, a Greek newspaper. The Italians also are declared to be stirring up religious hatred by playing off the Moslems against the Christians. The Christians wish Northern Epirus to be joined to Greece, while the Italians are agitating for an Italian protectorate over Albania.
Except for a few Albanians and Moslems, the majority of the population of Northern Epirus, the papers adds, are indignant over the attitude of the Italians and demand that the Italian troops in that region be withdrawn.

Published: April 27, 1919