TROUBLE IN CRETE.

Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8806, 4 March 1897, Page 3

TROUBLE IN CRETE.

Mutiny of Turkish Gendarmery. ; • t , , , A*iiEKS, March 2. Tho Turkish gendftrinery" at Gano> mutinied owing to their pay being in arrears, . airdt. tbreatened to destroy tbo town. The marine^ from Itae ioieign fleets blockaded them in theic bar-.'aoks. The Italian contingent fired and wounded the officers, the commandant receiving fatal injuries. The gendarmes thereupon submitted, and were plrced in irons. The Cretans have captured Candanos. Offioers from the foreign fleets have been sent to Selino to rescue the Moslems. It is feared the presence of Oolonel Vassos troops will result in rendering the position worse by resigning the army to volunteer rebels. London, Maroh 3. In the court c of a speech in the House of Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury said tbe Moslems at Crete intensely objeoted to a onion with Gretoe, and there was no evidence that the Christians desired it either. Tbe wisest course was to rts< rye liberty of action. If later on the Cretans desired union the Powers were unlikely to resist. If Greece gained territory now the signal would be given to dismember Turkey, and this wtitald embfpil Europe. It was diffioaif to persuade the Powers to agree to the withdrawal of Turkish troops.