The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-27
GAMBIA.
The Loss OF Life at the Monastery of
Arkadhi.
GAMBIA.

GAMBIA.
The Loss Of Life at the Monastery of
ArkadhI.
From the PdH NdV Gazette, December IL.
So extraordinary and desperate an act OF
heroism as that which has just eDnObled the
cause of the CIetan insurgents at the Monastery
OF Arkadhi should not, il possible, be allowed
10 pass down 10 posteTty with any inadequacy
oil want OF antheDticat on about Its details
There is 10 doubt whatever as to the fact
itself, though the absurd figures with which it
was at first announced from Corfu naturally
induced every one to cousgn it to the same
lImoo as that TO whco we have long been
accustomed to hand over all kilograms from
Corfu, and notably the Immediately preceding
one claiming victory, with a loss of 5000
Turks killed and wounded and 1000 taken pri-
soners.
1t is not clear even yet whether the monastery
was blown up oy Koroneos sprineiDg his mine
before abandoning it, or whether the monks
hred the powder mae az ne after the Turks mad
storm ca "; anu were in complete possession of
tainty' as to the numbers on either side who
lave perished. To ascertain these points is the
province OF history, and we may trust that the
great historian who acts as the Times cores
pOndent at Athens will investigate them fully, and
thus NIL up the necessarily brief description in
outline which he mas Just sent us. Indeed, if he
does not we much !tar that no one else will be
able to do it properly, however willing. For
the moment it would be almost impertinent
mlnutely TO criticize the details of so grand and
tragic an act OF devohOn-one, however, more
than once parallelPd, though on a far smaller
scale, in the old Greek revo ution. We love to
associate great deeds OF this kind with the
Iame OF single leading mind, but as yet such
fails us now, as it nearly does in modern Greek
history. The name of Yorghakl, of Mount Olym-
pus, the RumehOte Captain who blew himself
up in the Moldavian monastery OF Seko, to
v hlch he had cut his way with much address
and bravery in the open field, at the close of
the premature and misdirected campaign on
the Danube, which preluded the true Greek in
surrecton OF 1921, may yet remain for the
representative of Greek patriotic sef-devotion
as after that of Constantine KanaIis-it is
] kewise the only exception 10 Finay's stern
'ntcnce of judgment on the whole revolution:
NO eminent man stands forward as the repre-
8 ntatiye of the nations virtues"
Up TO the present time, almost without excep.
on, we have been apathetic and sparing OF
sentiment as regards the Cretan movement, and
lhe Greeks have onlv to thank themselves for
This result, brought about by the bewlderment
mo which their preposterOus telegrams have
thrown us. An event of this kind is not un-
likely to stir up sympathy 10 some depth.
But 1t is not likely to make us intervene,
when such intervention must of necessity adopt
one or the other alternative-either of expro.
priating and restoring 10000 Mussulmans, or of
abandoning them to the mercies OF men in hot
blood, who would destroy them in q week. If
England or France, or both together intervene
they will simply be compelled to occupy the
Island, On other terms Intervention is but
iole talk.