The Cretan Trouble.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8604, 8 March 1897, Page 2

The Cretan Trouble.

(Per Press Association.)

Athens, March 5. Greece, with its reserves, has a hundred thousand men under arms. M. Delyannis threatens to refuse to pay the foreign debt coupons. The Greek colonies in Egypt have appealed to the Prince of Wales to protect Crete, March 6. GREECE WILL NOT BE COERCED. M. Delyannis, in the course of an interview, said he would rather that Greece should disappear from the map than that she should submit to the menaces of the Powers.

It is understood that the Powers have directed Turkey to confine her troops to the Cretan towns, and to ultimately recall all with the exception of the Governor's guard.

March 7

Five hundred British, French, and Russian marines have landed at Eetimo to release 9000 Mussulmen at Candano in the event of Sir Alfred Biliotti, British Consul at Crete, failing to induce the Cretans to release the besieged.

Four fresh classes of Greek reserves have been summoned.

Vassos has obtained three months provisions

Rome, March 7.

The Marquis Budini, Premier, has i^suftl a manifesto to the electors, in which he expresses the opinion that the concert of the Powei-s^ alone prevents the outbreak of a dreadful war.