Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-05-21
WILMINGTON. 81 1867
THE RESURRECTION IN CRETE.


A correspondent of the London Daily News,
writing from the insurgents camp on Mount Ida,
Crete, April .. says:
'tWhatever may be the scope Of foreign inter
vention as regards Cretan politics, it should Sc
cure immediate burying OF the dead on both
sides. There are so many bodies rotting in the
sun that they may we'll breed pestlence with
the increasing heat of summer. 1t is not q SUBJ
ject upon which care to enlarge, but assuredly
something should be done, and much can be
done when Intervention shall have put stop to
the desperate struggle between Christians and
Turks But there will remain hundreds Of dead
women and children hidden away high up on
the mountains, where they sought refuge when
their homes were destroyed, and where they
died of cold or hunger. These victims to the
balance of power leave their bones among the
rocks to testify that European chiyalry gave the
Turks every chance. With other instructions
it has been different. Our Western ships Of
war crused off Sicily in 1860, disregarding the
feelings of the Neapolitan Government; hut
the feelings of Turkish stockholders in 1867
hufo bVVh oOEupulOusly Hpuicu AiuSs " DtiASH
officer was found to take upon himself tho charge
of saving as many refugees as his ship would
carry. He well deserves the thanks Of his
countrymen for having redeemed our name from
utter disgrace in these waters. But why was
not the act of mercy repeated dozen times by
orders from home? | wish that the noble lords
and right honorable gentlemen who scrupled to
offend the Turks by removing their victims
could know how sovereign rights have been
asserted in Crete. and could dream of such
knowledge every night for twelvemonth.
"Many stories of Turkish cruelty towards
the insurgents have doubtless reached you, and
it is probable that some of them were over
colored by the warmth of party zeal. am
sorry to say, however, that only too much is
strictly true. Things have been done which the
delicacy of modern society forbids me to record.
0utrages have been committed like the worst Of
the bad old times of Turkish conquest, and who
can wonder? There is an outer gloss of ciyiliz-
ed life on many of the pachas, educated abroad
or by foreign masters but the Turkish sodiery
is as rough as of yore. Then there arc the
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and horde of wild Albanians, brought hiihei
because they understand mountain warfare
With such elements of evil left lfeely to work
you may easily believe that there ore storie
which it would be hard to over color.
sI have met witnesses enough to prove
score of murders before an English jr"y; ant
when sec the sorrow-stricken faces and fash
ing eyes of those who speak, it is not difficult
Imagine that they will retaliate in terrible ea. mes
when they have the power. 1t is more from
wish that the struggle should be quickly stoppe
by Intervention from abroad thea to persuad
mention these horrors yet as regards the clas
above referred to, of semi-civlized pachas, 9
whom much capital is made by western Turkt
phlos, l have q word 10 say. In villag
named Apodollon, not far from our presel
quarters, stands house built by an Englis
gentleman, who was maified TO Cretan. I'll
Englishman had been dead for several years, bl
the house remained in possession of his femil
and being we'll fl lished, offered some tempt
ton to plr1 1derers, Now it happened that IL
er Turks came to Apodoulon under the commar
,e of semi.civiized paCha, ami this officer alIO'
Id ed his men to sack the English house, watchi'
-. with pleasure their work Of destruction.
lg much for neutral property. OF what next to-
RS place, aud which concerns couple Of yOur
n, Cretan girls, the pretiest in the village. W
1t ory soy that this semiciviliTed pacha outrage
:" instead of protecting them.
"The Cf-is''ans car not take to sea coast ia
he trcsscs and the Turks are p1able to reduce t
lis hill country, so that intervention soems to
st. the only means of escape .'Om continued see
ad of horror and srTering."