TURKEY AND GREECE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 594, 24 August 1909, Page 5

TURKEY AND GREECE.

CRETAN TROUBLE. ' POWERS ASSERT THEIR AUTHORITY. PORTE ACQUIESCES. (By Telesrttph.-I'ross &»»oclatlon.-OoDyrlEbU ■-..■'■ (Eec s August 23, 0,5 p,m.) _ : .i'. Londonj'August 23. The Turkish Government'acquiesces with the views' of. the protecting l'owors expressed iii .their recent Note, which regretted that Turkey had notleft'the settlement of the Cretan crisis in the Powers' hands, they having shown ovory disposition to safeguard ■ Turkish' interests. .■■•.,-' ..;.'.' The Turkish. Government, therefore, uuderI takes- to refrain from direct communication wjth Greece regarding Crete, and accepts the' last Greek Note.as satisfactory.';''/ ; ,'. In its reply; to thoPowers, the Turkish.! Government explains its reasons for recently communicating directly with Greeoe. . ■ [Turkey, going outside'the protecting.Powers,, pressed Greece' for "specific assurances that no attempt wiH'be made t6 ipfringo. Turkey s sovereign rights in Crete."; Greeces first reply. ; was described as "reassuring and friendly, but Turkey was not satisfied with it; A second .conciliatory reply,from. Greece,.promising to with the decisions of the protecting Powers and .to abstain from encouraging any agitation in Crete, was by Turkey, as satisfactory. The .'haste of the protecting Powers to assert their position to /Turkey, indicates a fear that'tho Cretan, trouble if got out of hand; might provoke the "Balkan blaze ;that Mr. Poster-Eraser is still expecting..! •; BULGARIA'S KING.-RECOGNITION, BY ■■. ;'.;;.-■ .v : ,/':;..: ■';■../; K '".•..."'. ConstantlnoplOi August 22. The Porte has decided to recognise King Ferdinand's title as. King of Bulgaria. •;:;

[King Ferdinand of Bulgaria doolared his independence of his Turkish suzerain on October S last, two days hefore the annexation by Austria-Hungary of the Turkish provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Turkey is anxious that a Greek Crete shall not follow on an Austnan Bosnia and a free Bulgaria.]