An accord of Europe is certainly possible, whatever may be
its extent. The members of the Berlin Conference separated on Thursday, having unanimously signed, with the special consent of their Governments, a protocol declaring Greece entitled to a frontier including Jannina and Metzovo. The addition to Greek territory amounts to 8,000 square miles and 450,000 souls, and though far short of her true limits, which should reach to the Rhodope on the east and include the whole Archipelago, still makes of the kingdom a sub- stantial State, with a future before it, when the Sultanet falls. The decision of the Conference is to be embodied in a collective Note, to be presented to the Sultan, and it is expected that the Porte, while not resisting openly, will disclaim all re- sponsibility. This means that the Albanians are to fight for Epirus, without compromising Constantinople. It is stated that the Greek Premier, M. Triconpis, foreseeing this, has pro- vided equipment for 45,000 men, and will at once take posses- sion of the assigned territory. It will then be for the clans to decide whether they will enter on a campaign which they can- not win, or whether they will proclaim their own independence and make arrangements with the Greek Government. They will probably divide, and there is a chance, only a chance, that the new arrangement, the best yet made by Europe, may be carried out without bloodshed.
