Επιστολή του Σπ.Σπυρομήλιου προς τον Άγγλο Φιλελεύθερο βουλευτή, Young, σχετικά με όσα συμβαίνουν στη Βόρεια Ήπειρο.

173 Athens, 24th September 1917. My dear Friend, Three years have elapsed since the fate of Chimara brought you and our noble friend, Finley who fell at the Sonne, to her mountains. Liberal Sons of England, you hastened to follow from near the struggle for Liberty of a people, small but brave and free since the Fall of Con/ple and the enslavement of hellenism by the conquering Turk. On the Akrokeravnian mountains you saw the self sacrifice of men and women and children to their Mother-Country; therefore you realised that for the mountaineers of Chimarra nothing is more precious than their Freedom and that as long as a single one is alive Chimarra will not goe under foreignnule besone an Albanian Province and part of the Albanian monstruosity, which the strife between Italy and Austria imposed, and Europe accepted to create, against all natural laws. Time since has proved what the Chimarrliote felt by instinct and what you, as free citizens of a free country declared to the world. Neither has an Albanian foot polluted Chimarra, nor has it been possible to constitute an Albanian Kingdom. Because now could it be constituted when the People have no national conscience? When Bey Aga, and Pasha have but one thought which is their local influence, but one law, which they themselves impersonate, that of plunder and brigandage and not of Justice and Equality. The fact of creating the frontier of a State on a piece of paper by the powerful cannot alone constitute a State. It is an act of violence, and temporary consequence of Power. States are based on a national conscience and this did not exist because the upper classes were only moved by their arbitrary instincts an a the lower musulman anes by religions dination. They thought only of remaining Turks and of exiling the non musulman population. The results that the upper classes, being divided came to internal strife—and the people divided and under the influence of their local rulers, brought on the downfall sooner even that those acquainted with the inhabitants of Northern Epirus also remained Greeks and taking up arms refused to be enslaved to Albania. Europe in despair finally accepted that we should again be united to our Mother-Country-Greece. Unfortunately our ordeal was not