FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22401, 23 April 1936, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

GREECE AND TURKEY Fiftv vears ago Britain was striving with the other Great Towers to find » peaceful solution of a dispute between Greece and Turkey. Following is a extract from the New Zealand Hkrald of April 23, 18S6: — "At the instance of the British uo ernment, the Great Powers of Europe have given a week to Greece to disarm. What effect this seemingly peremptory order may have remains to be seen; but the probabilities are that the rep y of the Greek Government will be given bv an instruction to their army attack the Turkish troops on the frontier. Indeed, it is reported that hostilities in that quarter have a read commenced. This, if correct, wi pose upon the Powers the duty o sorting to force; and then it Wl '' made apparent how far the barn • which is alleged to exist among really exists. That Russia will tak * active part in an attack upon u is hardly to be expected, as it suixs her designs to increase the complications of the position rather than diminish them. The chances are_ the Greeks will maintain their d attitude and pjirsne their own coun and that the utmost that will be tempted bv the Powers against the will be a naval demonstration as am less in its character as fruitless 11 results."