THE STATE OF CRETE.

Hastings Standard, Issue 275, 19 March 1897, Page 3

THE STATE OF CRETE.

"LORD SALISBURY COVERING BRITONS WITH SHAME." GREEKS HOLDING THE INTERIOR OF CRETE. TURKS PILLAGING CHRISTIANS. PATRIOTIC GREEKS. (/'<>■ P/v.s.v Asx»ciati<>n — 1 Athens. March 17. The Crown Prince of Greece has been placed in command of the Greek troops in Thessaly. The insurgents aiul the Greeks hold the entire interior of Crete. The admirals of the foreign fleets rescued the Moslems beseiged by the Cretan insurgents at Kiassamo and Castelli. The Turks pillaged the Christian i illages outside Eetuno. It was the defective closing of the breach of a gun that caused the explosion on the Russian cruiser Cissioveliki in Cretan waters. Several of those injured have since died. March 18 Colonel Yassos has been ordered to entrench Sphakia, a small island close to the south coast of Greece. London, March 17. Sir W. Y. Harcourt, in a speech at Norwich, referring to the action of the Powers with referenee to Greece, said the Powers had the might but Greece had the right on her side. Lord Salisbury was covering Britons with shame. Sydney, This day. A number of Greek residents in this city have offered the Consul to pay their own passage to Greece in order to fight for her effort to deliver Crete from the Turks. The Consul considers that it is unfair for the Powers to try t'j coerce Greece for attempting to prevent misrule and cruelty to her own llesh and blood in Crete.