THE WAR.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10625, 2 June 1897, Page 3

THE WAR.

I THE TiI RCO GRECIAN feMBROGLIO. {FEK PBTOI ABSOOUTION.—OOPrMOHT.) [Received Juno 1 ( 5,30 p.m.] LoNnoj*. May SI. f Admire] Harris, vim !h in command of i the allied fiaets, reporting npon the pprfttou in Crete, states that Greek emissaries form the chief obsbaole to the restoration of peace aud good government) on the Island. | (Received June 1, 5.30 p.m.) g Athens, May 31. I One hundred thousand Christian fagl- I tlves in Thessaly are reported to be ] without bread and starving. j There are fmore British volunteers for | tho opposing armies ot Greece and Tnrkey | than is genor»lly supposed to ho the ease, and undoubtedly aorao of these are colonists (writes a London correspondent), la Ssrgeaut Rumshcz'a little oompany;, wbioh arrived at Athens a few dnyo ogo, there was ona volunteer vho was described os "an Austral? .v Rnsep 1 shearer." Ho was in cnriona onmpany. Tbe'fl were one or two p.i uon'Couimlfbioneci oflijers who had seen service, an Oxford undergraduate, a gentleman who hrvi chiefly been known hitherto an q profcs-lowtil footbfiller, »nd, I bßlleve, a bunk olork. I have uo doubt they hevo ail been ohosen lor fighting qnaSltlea. I alco hoar that oundry aaventntouß Qsnadlani are on their way to the Bnßt, There appears to be no doabb Chad several retired officers from the British army have recently joined the Tnrks, end a good many Germans are with them, also for the purpose of anriiif; service. The motives which take British officers out to help the Tnrkn are partly professional and partly attributable to old comradeship, as a good muoy of them served with the Turkß in the Runso- Turkish war; while, en bho other hand, tho volunteers who are swayed by sentiment go to the Greeks. Sn far only very nmall batches havH left this oonntry ; brtt a central depoi has been estabihhed to reoelve them at Athens, and money and arms ere b. ing accumulated,