Enrico Tellini

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Enrico Tellini
A street in Livorno named after Tellini

Enrico Tellini (25 August 1871 – 27 August 1923) was an Italian General whose assassination provoked the Corfu incident of 1923.

Biography

Enrico Tellini was born in

First World War held various posts until he was badly wounded and captured in the battle of Caporetto.[1]
After the end of the hostilities, he commanded Italian troops in Albania.

Assassination

In 1923, Tellini was part of an Italian delegation sent by the League of Nations to survey the disputed border between Greece and Albania. He was shot and killed, along with four companions, when the car he was driving in was stopped by a fallen tree across the road that ran along the disputed border near the town of Ioannina on the way to the Albanian border. The responsible persons were never found. The incident occurred close to the disputed border and could have been carried out by either side. However, the Italians under Benito Mussolini, blamed the Greek side. The Greek side refused any responsibility.[2][3][4][5] The Italians claimed Greece as responsible and there were anti-Greek retaliations in the country.[6][7][8] The Greek government denied responsibility and blamed Albanian bandits in the area.[9] Benito Mussolini demanded 50 million lira in reparations from Greece and the execution of the assassins. On 31 August 1923 Italian troops occupied Corfu in the Corfu incident.[10][11]

Reginald Leeper, the British ambassador at Athens in 1945, in a letter to the British Foreign Secretary in April 1945 mentioned that the Greeks that lived in Albania blame Cham Albanians for the murder of Tellini.[12]

References

  1. ISBN 88-7418-543-X
  2. ISBN 9781107613911
    , Although the incident occurred close to the disputed border and could therefore have been carried out by either side, the Italians blamed the Greeks.
  3. ISBN 9781317862215
    , Unfortunately he was murdered, most likely by bandits. Although the culprits were never caught, reports were flashed to Mussolini blaming the Greek side
  4. ISBN 978-1610690300
    , The Greek delegate eventually accused Tellini of favouring Albanian claims. Then, on 27 August 1923, unknown assailants murdered Tellini and three of his assistants. Some sources attributed the attack to Greek nationalists, but the Greek government stated that Albanian bandits had killed the men, even though they had not been robbed.
  5. ISBN 978-1483249704
    , although the assassins were never found, the act was believed to have been motivated by political considerations.
  6. ISBN 978-1107613232
    , Greece consistently showed little willingness to co-operate with the commission, and when Tellini and three of his Italian assistants were killed by unknown assailants in August 1923, Mussolini was convinced that Greece was responsible.
  7. ISBN 978-1441185938
    , In Rome, the assumptions were that the assassins were under direct orders of the Greek government...
  8. ISBN 978-0230606050
    , On 27 -August 1923 the Italian General Enrico Tellini, president of the international commission for the demarcation of the Graeco- Albanian frontier, was murdered with three other Italian soldiers by some Greeks who accused him of being ...
  9. ISBN 978-1780764313
    , He was accused by the Greek authorities of the assassination of 27 August 1923 of an Italian general, Enrico Tellini
  10. ^ THE CORFU INCIDENT OF 1923: MUSSOLINI AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. By James Barros. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1965. Pp. xxi+339
  11. ^ "Britannica". Archived from the original on 2020-04-11. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  12. ISBN 978-1-78076-000-1
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