Turkey and Greece.
FURTHER OUTRAGES.
(Press Association.)
Constantinople March 14
Reports have been received of further grave outrages on Armenians at Anatolia. Sir Phillip Currie demands that the Porte take immediate remedial measures. A terrible outrage occurred near Salonica.
A railway bridge was destroyed by dynamite while a train containing three thousand Turkish troops, was crossing it, and many of the unfortunate soldiers were drowned. Athens, March 13. The Tm'ks are pillaging the houses of Christians in Crete. Sir Biliotti has been ordered to proclaim autonomy in the island.
The Porte has declared its willingness to withdraw the troops from the towns protected by the troops of the Powers as soon as the Greek troops evacuate. The Powers have decided to blockade Crete forthwith, and will extend the blockade to Greece in event of that country proving obstinate. France alone hesitates to enter upon a policy of coercion. Admiral Reinecke, the Greek Naval Gommander, denies that he abstained from warning the Cretan insurgents that the Powers would bombard their position if they threatened Canea.
The King of Greece has ordered the Greek gunboats Peseus and Alpheisos to resist expulsion from Cretan waters by the vessels of the Powers.
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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8611, 16 March 1897, Page 2
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