CRETAN AFFAIRS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11644, 23 August 1905, Page 5

CRETAN AFFAIRS.

Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright.

Received August 22, 9.30 p.m. - ATHENS, August 22. After the insurgents had evacuated Alsipopoulo, in Crete, to join the Rustika' bands, Colonel Urbanovitch occupied the place and demanded ,£BO blood money for the death of the Russian soldiers. The inhabitants declined to pay on the ground that they were not responsible for the insurgents' acts. The colonel then seized and sold the draught animals, and threatened to burn the village if the attack was renewed. There is great indignation ' at Canea.