GREECE.
' .^According to the latest intelligence . an X, interview had lately taken place at Vienna between King George of Greece and Em--peror; Francis Joseph of Austria, the latter > having'speciaUy telegraphed to St. Petersburg to, that effect. King George and 'i, Queen ; Olga were received with great fhonors at the Austrian capital; and the ./Austrian Grand Cordon of the Crown was '- conferred by the Emperor upon Prince 'Ypsilanti, the Grecian Embassador at -'. Vienna and Berlin. . The Prince subse;fquently escorted the King and Queen of Greece to Venice, where an interview
took place with .the! King of Italy, who .came there to meet them. Kiug George expressed with much feeling his thanks to Victor Emmanuel for the sympathy of /the Italian people, in behalf of the Cretans, '; aid for generously placing Italian men-of-;\var at the disposal of Cretan families in their, exodus to Greece proper. Prussian, Russian, and : French frigates have also lately been in Cretan waters for the same purpose.. Much admiration has been expressed by the Courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg, and in. Prussia and Russia generally, at the heroic determination of the. Cretan people not to lay down their arms until they have conquered their independence.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 913, 1 February 1868, Page 4
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198GREECE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 913, 1 February 1868, Page 4
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