. But they
overacted the part so badly that in many cases they succeeded only
in disgusting the Commissioners. At Borova a number of school
children were sent to play in front of the house where the
Commission was, and ordered to speak Greek only. Signor Labia, the
Italian commissioner, threw out a handful of coppers. In their rush
to pick up the money the poor children forgot their orders, and
disputed aloud in their mother tongue--Albanian, to the amusement of
the Commission, which, disgusted by these tricks, drew a frontier
which gave the Albanians less than they had hoped for, but very much
more than the Greeks had intended. These hastened to make another
grab at the land, and sent Zographos, formerly Greek Minister for
Foreign Affairs, and a gang of Greek officials to South Albania to
claim it as Greek, and appoint themselves as the "Provisional
Government of Epirus." A Greek colonel was made War Minister to this
so-called government, and a Greek member of Parliament, Karapanos,
was its Minister for Foreign Affairs. An American called Duncan, who
had a Greek wife and went about dressed mainly in bath towels,
collected much money, incited the people to resist Wied, armed them,
and urged them to a fratricidal war. The Greek Government denied all
connection with this "provisional government," just as the Serb
Government has always denied responsibility for and knowledge of the
deeds of the Black Hand.

At the command of the Powers the Greek regular army was obliged to
evacuate the occupied districts. It departed from Koritza, but left
a so-called hospital of wounded "not fit to be moved," and joined it
to the Greek frontier by a telephone. Much of the army, however,
remained in out-of-the-way spots, removing and concealing their
insignia, so that the Greek Government might be able to deny that
they were soldiers.

Formally the Greeks handed over Koritza to the Dutch gendarmerie
officers under the International Control, on March 1, 1914. Had the
Powers meant honestly by Albania they would have sent a force to
clear the land of the lurking Greek bands of soldiery. But in spite
of several questions asked in the House of Commons, Cretan and Greek
komitadjis continued to land at Santa Quaranta, the Greek Government
persistently denying all knowledge. "There are none so blind as
those that won't see."

Such was the state of things when Prince zu Wied landed at Durazzo
on March 7th. Had he at once made a journey through