These districts, though nominally Greek, were very recariously held. There
were large Turkish and Bulgar ements, and the Government at Athens never knew hat would happen next in territories of such doubtful legiance. Now the scene is changed. The Turks ave departed to Asia Minor, and many of the Bulgars ave emigrated or have been exchanged for Greeks of astern Rumelia and the Black Sea Coast. Southern lacedonia and Western Thrace have thus been really ellenized. But that great ethnographic change does of end the story. The refugees have transformed gricultural methods. In Southern Macedonia the area rider cultivation was doubled in one year. The cultiva- ion of wheat increased by 70 per cent., and that of other ereals more rapidly still. In other , forms of industry he progress has been almost as striking—for instance, carpennaldng—for the " Turkish " carpets were ostly Greek. There is no doubt that Greece could (come an extremely prosperous and happy country if ly there were an end to the familiar political stability.
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