flying over Mount Olympus
with a snake in its talons. _Fig._ 329 shows the design of two war
charity stamps sold for the benefit of Greek soldiers incapacitated in
the campaign, and for the widows and orphans of the killed. Greece
overprinted stamps very lavishly for territories occupied during the
war. When the fleet occupied Mytilene the Greek authorities overprinted
the Turkish stamps they found there with a Greek inscription rendered
"Greek occupation--Mytilene." Lemnos was furnished with Greek stamps
overprinted LEMNOS in Greek characters, and many other places were
provided with Greek stamps overprinted with an inscription signifying
"Greek Administration." In Samos four issues of new stamps appeared in
1912-1913, and Icaria's Independent Government stamps prepared just
prior to the Greek occupation were overprinted "Greek Administration."

[Illustration: 330 331]

Albania's separate stamp issues were an outcome of the Balkan Wars.
The first were created in 1913 by overprinting Turkish stamps with a
device of a double-headed eagle and the word SHQIPENIE (_Fig._ 330).
Since then four or five new issues have appeared, crude labels of
circular handstamp pattern (_Fig._ 331) with the value typewritten.
More recently a series has appeared depicting Skanderbeg, the warrior
hero of the Albanians, and these were overprinted in March, 1914, with
an inscription "_7 Mars. 1467._ rroft[:e] mbreti. 1914" to commemorate
the arrival of Prince William of Wied as Mpret. The year 1467 was the
date of the death of Skanderbeg.

[Illustration: 332 333 334]

The "autonomous state of Epirus," another outcome of the Balkan
troubles, has given us some quaint stamps. The first was the skull
and cross-bones issue (_Fig._ 332), the inscriptions on which read
"Liberty or death--Defence of the fatherland--Lepta 10." This was
succeeded by a more ambitiously designed stamp (_Fig._ 333) showing
an evzone or light infantryman in the act of firing. The simple name
"Epirus" was extended to "Autonomous Epirus" (_Fig._ 334). Other
crude issues have appeared in Epirote districts, as yet not very
satisfactorily authenticated. These include Koritza (_Fig._ 335) and
Moschopolis (_Fig._ 336), both places in lower Albania.

Another curious provisional is one for Gumuldjina (_Fig._ 337) in the
vilayet of Adrianople.

[Illustration: 335 336 337]

Crete's troubles may be ended with the final settlement of the Turks;
in its stamps since 1898 we see th