The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-05-11 00:00:00

PROSPECTS OP WAR.

BLOCKADE OF GREEK PORTS.

The Collective Note notifying the blockade of the
Greek ports has been signed by the Charges d'Affaires
of the five Great Powers, and was presented to the
Greek Government at noon on Friday. The Note
d -dares a bl•ickade ,if the ports from Cape Males to
Cape Colimn* on the eastern meat, and from the
northern point of the Greek frontier to the Gulf of
Corinth on the western coast. No a wend mention is
inad, of the Greek islands. A notification has been
(pr./Ardisl to the Duke ef Edinburgh at Suds Bay
summering the Ketentation of the Site.
Immediately her receiving the notification of the
blocks/le the Greek Governusent telegraphed to all
the Greek ports to sum the issue of the usual ships'
papers and intimating that tireek vessels leaving port
w•iuld doe at their own risk. Three steamer. leav•

ing-Th; Puraw, on ii;;;;cl;Twere.....d.dii;cf-tUieturn,
owing to the blockade.
The action 01 the Powers has created a stir in
financial and commercial circler, but the general
public appear indifferent. Shortly afre r the Greek
llorernment recekod the notifitattion 4 the blockade,
there was a protracted Cabinet Council and another
wee held on Sunday night. It is leretood that
nothing waii decided upon, but the Goceruisent is
believed to intend *damming a circular to the Greek
repreeentati yes %broad reiterating its pacific intentions.
It b. expected that the Gover 1111 l -at will await the
euequences..f the blockade bet". e deciding upon it.
future attitude.

The Br Is naval force at present in Groek w•ters
as the most formidable of the International squadron,
being larger, in fact, than the tconliined forces 01 the
other rowers participating in the d tration.
The Temeraire, the flagship of the Duke of l&liit-
Inagh, in an ariu. ow plated liarbette ship of 5,540
carrying 8 guns. The other veseels in the British
Iteet include the Alita,ore, a comp. keit*, gunboat of
i 0 wal: 4 guns : the C..rysfort, a 14 gun aw.
vette, of 2.380 tog.: the Dreadnought, an irou car t
vecrl, 10.0:34 tons, w.th 4 gous; Dee, an iron
guniackt, will, • Li Mil 14. .1i utt to 14, and
1...0...HW 3 gun. : the D ~,,, winch is practically a
duplicate of the 1).,'; the Hod*, • 6 gun ir .0 torpedo
depat ship, of 6,40.)t0. ti,, I. i' a t. I l.march
vessel of 3,701 tons, with 10 guns : Falcon, a
composite glut vesscl, with 3 guns, and having 780
Was ; tliv iper.., au armour•plated 1.1 9.170
1.•••••004 16 Innis ; the Sultan, a ship of •
tar deacription, but having 9,:.423 toms regiater,
sail 12 eons ; the l'olypbeuiwi, a steel torpe.lo rain .1
2.040 tons ; the Neptaile, a 9,31045 in turn.t *hip, with
Ii gun. ; and the Dolphin, a compositor sloop 025
tons, with four guts*. Our Hort recent.* adaliti, nal
strength by the prosemx .1 torpedo bush", Nos, 9, 10,
11, 21. and 72, the two laot-natuod of which were
°mired (nil.' Malta wi the 27th of laat month. Theist
Are, SIAOI,,VOr, the following British crawls at Malta;
—The Cruiser, au 860 ton sloop .1 4 guns ; the
Alexandra, a double iron ship of 9,490 tons, with 11
j the Humber, insip.hip, having 1,640 bug, the
Airementimu, &double iron-I'64d turmt ship. with 6
• and 41,310 taw register; and the Thouderer, •
• milarly constructed vowel of 9,330 tows, with four
guits,