CRETAN AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6133, 21 March 1898, Page 1

CRETAN AFFAIRS.

THE GOVERNORSHIP. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Received Hnrcu 20, -5.15 p.m. LONDON, Maech Ml Russia is urgin<; lingianil efiid Trance to co-operate in a lonn of thirty million francs to cover Brince George's expenses in the Governor- _>■ ship of Crete. The StandaivH'is Athens correspondent wires that 'Prince George's appointment as Governor of 'Crete is virtually assured. The London 'Standard of Feb. 2, referring to tho nomination of Prince George of <Sreece for tihe Governorship of Crete, says :— ln feYdul- of the Prince's candidature is the -fact that be has been proposed by- tylie Czar, and that the personal '.feeling .'-df that /powerful 'Sovereign are ; believed to. be ; closely engaged in promote ing hfe "bjfection, France would in any ijircußjfetaric^s be. bound to farther the •wishes<bCher allyj but there can be no ■question 'that, on broad grounds of national sentiment,. : Republican statesmen would welcome the contemplated settlement. Great Britain- assuredly has no inducement to hold aloof. Our policy throughout has been to, -support any arrangement calculated to preserve peace and extend the bounds of freedom in the East. Our concurrence may, therefore, be assured. The Daily Telegraph, alluding to the same snbject, S"ay» : — For over a cantnry Crete, rich in all the essential elements of relative prosperity, has been the embodiment •ot anarchy, bloodshed, religious and racial hatred and • sickening cruelty. The first step has now been taken to put an end to * state .of ■ things which ought never to have been tolerated. I? Prince George should further succeed in introducing the reign of law and order, and in bringing his Christian and Mohammedan subjects to live together in peace, as those of his Eoyal lather do in Thessaly, he will have merited well not only of the Cretans, but of all {humanity.