FEW GREEKS IN GREECE.
Star* «* «&• *><-•««« laaaaftftaate •£ tan* «aa»*<ry Ar* *4 ■lwvawJa Oraaa* dftaft tocc&ttaa the aasa who mad© her glory had all panaed away aad loft aaaw at Ifecir Un, and thereto** aaaa of feaftr kte* M Ti* Grace, but Mtteff Owww m> Hew*," tor the <Jrea& •« *«4ar, 4a* <Aa no«t part, bow earn* 9km ftftMu of Leonids* *r MlMftafeav Ha la th* eon of tha etabl* bcyo oad aoulUana and elara* of the dfejr «d he* glory, thoae of whom («fwtol Otreoe* could stake no uae of ia bar aanqueat of Aaia. "Meat off tha «*$ Greok mc*," aaye Mr. W. BL Ireland, "ha* bean swept away aad tha ©ouatry te now inhab. Had hy paraoa* «* Siaroaic descent. Indeed, thera te stroag ground for the *a»4*e»aA tta* tha** ww aaore of th* att total* Moot of Hallaa i> the Turktah army of Edhem Paoh* ihaa to the aoldiara ad King George, who fad actor* thorn three yean ago." Kl»ff G»org« hinwelf is only an alien placed on tho Grecian throne to suit the ooaTameaee of tha outaid* powuws, which t* the ancient Greek* war* merely ieetlono of barbarian*, eey* David Starr Jordan, in tha Popster iaienee Monthly. la the lata war aeaae poet, addressing tha spirit ed ancient Oraaea, appealed to kav: Of el? tar t«eu»e»*fl «*ant ua three d To malt* a new Thtrmopyla*. Buk there were not even three—not •▼en one—"to malt* another Marathnis," and the Turkiah troops swept over the historic country with no other hindrance than the effortless depreciation of Christendom.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 3
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255FEW GREEKS IN GREECE. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 3
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