THE CRETAN REVOLT.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9670, 8 March 1897, Page 5

THE CRETAN REVOLT.

RESIGNATION OF A GREEK MINISTER. THE CONDITIONS OP THE POWERS. Press Association—-By Telegraph—Copyright. Athens, March 5. M. Suiolentz, Minister of War, has resigned on the ground that the Cabinet refused to reinforce the Greek troops in Crete under the command of Colonel Yassos. M. Mebasas succeeds him.

One hundred Liberal members of the British House of Commons have wired to the King expressing their sense of the services of Greece towards Crete.

The Athens newspapers assume a warlike tone in opposing the submission of Greece to the Powers.

Greece, with the Reserves, has 100,000 men under arms.

M. Delyannis threatens to refuse to pay the foreign debt coupons. The Greek colonies in Egypt have appealed to the Prince of Wales to protect Crete. March 5. M. Delyannis, in the course of an interview, said he would rather that Greece should disappear from the map than that she should submit to the menaces of the Powers.

It is announced that the Powers directed Turkey to confine her troops to Cretan towns, and ultimately recall all with the exception oi the Governor's guard.

London, March 5.

In a letter on the Cretan question, Mr Gladstone says that to expel the Greeks from Crete and retain the butchers of the Armenians as police would be but to deepen the disgrace of the Powers.