Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-02-19
VIRTUALLY MEANS WAR
NOTE OF GREECE REGARDED AS A
DECLARATION.
Wait Only an Opportune
to Fall on Turkey ana DIS
member Her.

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Ill Europe ablaze. Everybody Is agreed
that the present moment is the most
critical since the powers interviewed IN
Turkish affairs. The daring action OF
Greece In sending Prlnce George with d
torpedo flotilla to Crete has caused
fiutter in the European caol-
nets.
Telegraphic dispatches on the subject
have been flying across the continent
the different governments ana
their embassies, and unusual activity ,
prevails at the English foreign office.
kilograms from the east have arrived
in rapid succession, and the Marquis OIL
Salisbury yesterday had special inter-
view with the Russian, Austrian and Ger
man ambassadors. The Importance OF
those conferences can be gagged by the
fact that Count Won Hatzfeldt, the Ger
man ambassador, went to the foreign Of
flee, although he was in such Feeble
health that he was unable to meet the
ex-empress, Frederick, on her arrival to-
day, and had to be carried upstairs at
the foreign office.
The Greek note to the News justifying
the attitude of Greece towards Crete Is |
couched in such strong terms as to be |
regarded in official circles here as almost |
tantamount to declaration Of war
against Turkey.
The note accused the Turkish troops
of siding with the Mussulmans. said that
the Turkish reinforcements meant a re-
newal of atrocities against the Cretan
Christians and concluded with saying
that it was therefore incumbent upon
Greece to prevent at all cost the land
ing of renforcements not only out of
sympathy with but as a duty to the
Greek population which has just SOL
EMMY declared it's determination to ac-
| cept nothing out union with the mother
| land
| The opinion is expressed that Greece
| must be able to count upon the support
| of some influential persons and points
| to Russia as her hacker. 1t Is commended
| that the close kinship between the reign
| ing families must count for something,
| and people are asking what passed at the
| conference between the car and King
| George at Copenhagen last summer. King
| George also had a conference with Count
| Goluchow when in Vienna, and it Is stat
| ed that the latter advised Greece to wait
patiently and in the future she might
reap the fruit which was not ripe yet.
Apparently King George, pushed by the
national feeling in Greece, has been try
ing to expedite matters by a bold stroke.
According to advices from Athens the
excitement in Greece was SO great that
the king either had to yield or pack his
trunk and leave the country forever. 1t
is stated that King George has admitted
that he had no choice between dethrone-
ment and putting himself at the head OF
the popular movement, and 1t is thought
in some quarters that the theatrical send.
off of his son, Prince George, with the
torpedo flotilla was only intended for eff
feet and as a means of appeasing eht
clamor of the populice. But dispatche.
today show that the passions of the
Greeks are thoroughly aroused. Through
out the country meetings are being helc
and subscriptions for the troops are beins
raised.
Sympathy With Greece.
Reports from the capitals of Europe in
dictate sympathy with Greece, but tn
governments fear that If Greece is allow
ed to annex Crete an uprising in the Bal
kans will occur and efforts be made t.
) throw off the Turkish yoke. All the Bal
kan states except Roumania are ready t
. rise. Macedonia especially is eager to Il
t at the Turkish throat. Arms there, how
| ever, are comparatively scarce, althoug
; a quantity have been imported recently
. Nevertheless, this will not prevent ris
ing If Greece Is involved in war with rui
= key, and the whole peninsula will speed
, lily be converted into huge cockpit. Thl
is the reason the powers now oppos
Greece's annexing Crete until the Who'll
scheme for the partition of Turkey
: agreed upon by the powers.
. Several newspapers are already di
cussing the division of the spoils, and
French diplomat, the Compile de Char
. borg, today, In an interview, says /
4 thinks the collapse of Turkey is now il
: evitable. Russia, he ADDS, will probab
!, take Armenia, France will get Syria, ar
! England will retain Egypt. Many of II
continental newspapers accused Gre;
a Britain of melting Greece, but they a,
n duce little proof to establish the alleg
: ton. The English papers generally syn
a pathize with the Cretans, and urge Il
: government not to prevent the anne Katie
of Crete by Greece.
l. According to the Spectator, the ma
., Quis of Salisbury dare not in view of Il
feeling in Great Britain, join in coerci1
$ Greece. This journal says:
a I'VE do not believe there is any dang
lie In 1t, but in any case the British peop
in will not enter upon such course
l. crime, even to preserve the European CO
1t cert or European peace. Horror of Il
sultan has gone into their very souls. u
if The newspapers publish list of t
i, foreign war ships In Cretan waters. Gre
We Britain has four battle ships and sy
Ill cruisers, France has four cruisers, Russ
has a battle ship and cruiser, Austr
Ill has cruiser and Greece has a bait
is ship, corvette, a cruiser and six to
n pedo boats.
" The South African inquiry committe
s. at its first meeting, just held, grant
a. the applications of Messrs. Cecil Rhode
Id Alfred Best and Leonard Phillips to
rs represented by counsel, and 1t is al
Id decided to notify the cable companies
ed destroy no copies of cable messages /
ID tween England and the Cape of Go
e. Hope at the end of 1895. 1t is expect
that the examination of Mr.. Rhodes W
take place Monday.
9. In this connection the old story of L
important documents showing the exis
i" ence of a dangerous intrigue between L
Transvaal and Germany said to be in t
L. possession of Rhodes is revived