Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE RAID INTO MACEDONIA THE very day of my arrival at Larissa I put myself in communication with a prominent member of the Ethnike Etairia, to whom I had a note of introduction. He promised to give me a hint as to any movement of an insurrectionary character in Macedonia. There were then at Larissa a large number of Macedonian refugees who had been implicated in several of the abortive risings in that province last summer. It was openly canvassed that these were prepared to- make a rush across the frontier, assisted by a band organized by the National Society. It would be idle now to inquire whether the Greek Government was aware of the preparations being made for a raid or series of raids by irresponsible Irregulars, or by bands organized and equipped by the Ethnike' Etairia. But, if they were not so aware, they must have closed their ears to blatant rumour. THE RAID INTO MACEDONIA: SOME OF THE INSURGENT LEADERS: CAPTAIN LAZOS AND THREE LIEUTENANTS The moment I reached Larissa from the Vale of Tempe, in the afternoon of Saturday, April 10, my Nationalist friend informed me that the raid was an accomplished fact, and he volunteered to accompany me to Trikkala, where authentic information regarding it might be obtained. Within half-an-hour I had hired a carriage and was en route. The road was the same I had traversed on my visit to Ravenni until the Peneios was crossed at Kuzochiros. Between that point and Zarkos I found the Greek troops all in readiness for active work. They were elated and excited at a prospect of the commencement of hostilities. The road all the way to Trikkala was in the most admirable order, and we reached the last-named town half- an-hour after midnight. The division of the army on this part of the frontier was under the command of Colo...