GREECE AND TURKEY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2141, 6 April 1897, Page 2

GREECE AND TURKEY.

H M.S. Caraperrlowri aswalacl tbe linssian and Austrian warships which Shelled tbe Cbrktiftwn' position at Bnda Bay, and enabled the Turks to re-occupy the town, Coloool Vasaos accuse** the Admirals of par<kli*j — Reports from Vienna state lb;>t the opposition of Great Britain and Franc* has be«*n overcr>m« and all tho powers are now agreed upon the blockade of Greece. — An Austrian contingent, of troops has occupied Fore ia—" Austria and Germany wM, not increnna their contingents of troops taking: part in tho blockade of Crete. Tin? AdnrralH ot the foreign flouts have aske-l f,.»r a, email forco of cavalry and uiuinta'n artillery to assist it) the operation* against tho insurgents —The decision of the Powers to blockade the. Gu'-f of JEgina has paralysed the commerce of Greed*. —Tho Turkish army has occupied Katarina, Titochri, and Karya, on the Greek frontier. In the evenjt of war between Greece and Turkey Larissa will be tbe first place attacked.—The Powers' fleet renewed the bombardment of the Greek military camp in the vicinity of Fort Izzedin. —- Halil Bey, Turkish Governor of Bivae, in Asia Minor, has been dismissed owing to being implicated in the Toknt massacre.