GREECE AND TURKEY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2149, 7 May 1897, Page 2

GREECE AND TURKEY.

The Porta has consented to Great Britain and France protecting Greek residents in Turkey until the date fixed for their departure.

The Times Athene correspondent states that the Greek Government, after consultation with the Ministers who visited Phersala, rosolved to continue the war.

A mob wrecked the furniture in the residence of the Duke of Spnrta, burned the Duke's papers, and seized all the arms they could find.

The King of (Greece is suffering from sp'sms, and his physician has ordered him to proceed either to the Island of Milo or the Island of Syra.

The German warship Kaiserin Augusta and (be British warship PelorcH w.ll protect the Royal family in the event of their being in a position of extreme danger. ,

M. Delyannis, the ex-Premier, who was dismissed from office by the King, has promised to support M. Ka!li, who has formed a coalition Ministry, so long , as the Turks occuoy an inch of Greek territory.

M. Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, says the proposal of Lord Salisbury that a conference of the Powers should be held in Paris for the purnoae o! discussing the present state of affairs in Europe is not regarded as feasible.

The Athens correspondent of the Times confirms the news of the victory achieved by the Greeks under Colonel Smolenski, at Velestino, over the TurkuAn impartial eye-witneas of the en<*a£emeut says that the Turke numbered 200Q men and two squadrons of cavalry, and they lost thirty men.

It is stated that Greece w hopelessly unprepared to conduct the campaign She has no reserves of cannon, rifles, cartridges, or uniforms.

Lord fcalisbnry'e proposal to bold a conference of the Powers, to discuss the Eastern situation, has been rejected.

-TBe v Greek, forces at Pbersela aivi at Dornokos, nboat ten miles to the soath, are drawn up in battle ordpr. The residents of Phereaia flad from the town..

Seventeen hundred troops of sraert soldierly bearing, wi I reinforce tbe troops in Kpiru--. These troops are under ti>e leadership of a beautiful girl who acteae a standard bearer.

Tbe Admirals of tbe combined ftart'e have gftei"f<|. to all«>w the Cretan Assembly to tueet and ratify the appointment of a Qnvernor, but the insurgents sent a repjy that they would have nothing but aanexatton to Greece or death.