San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-12
RUSSIAN OPINION IS VERY Bit
Ter AGAINST Her, OWING
To Her CRETAN POLICY.
All the Newspapers Condemn Her
Attitude and Say She Is Not
Moved by Love for the Gre
tans, But Greed for Ter
ritOy-"A Threatened
Dynasty"

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the Herald from st. Petersburg says:
Russia has not changed her idea
on the Cretan question. These reports
are being spread by some revolution
airy SlavOnic societies. The govern
ment here is absolutely firm and I'M
fiinching in his attitude and there can
be no negotiating with Greece until
she has withdrawn from her position
as an offender against international
law in open defiance to the great Pow
ers.
1t is considered that were once such
a precedent given, all the small cOun-
tries would, when it pleased them, fol-
low suit and the Powers would alb
sOlutely lose all control.
Special importance attaches itself
to a leading article in the st. Peters
burg Niedomosti, all the more so as
that paper has given up publishing
articles on foreign affairs, and the
present one is inspired. 1t says:
'Greece's refusal is asked in soph-
lSllo VI WY "lCNNO 10
trying TO play blind mans buff with
Europe. Her conduct must cut her off
from all her friends. The ruse she
employs places her on plane with
Turkey. Greece wishes to be an ora
Gle and censor of the great Powers.
Greece has not worked for the paci-
fication of the island but for union to
her. There is no sense in Greece say
ing it is her sacred cause to rescue
Crete from Turkey. No one proposes
to give her to Turkey. We must not
invariably talk of humanity but also
of loyalty. If we allow Greece to
come out and usurp international
rights there will always be anarchy"
A less important article but interest
ing as demonstrating the more popu-
lar feeling, is that in the Move Vrem-
va. 1t says:
The Greek answer will not admit
of two words, either of criticism or it's
corrections, or of simple logic. 1t is
laughable for the Greeks to say it is
they alone who have the means to
appease the Russians. The situation
in Crete is well known"
The Moscow ViedmOSti in a strong
article says: Can we for a moment
entertain the idea that little Greece is
imposing her will upon theunited Pow
ers? Greece, finding itself insolvent,
sought to save herself by some forci-
BILE measure, which she now finds in
war. The demagogues of Athens, few
cred with eXaltatiOn to the highest
degree, try to save the threatened |
dynasty which strives to escape fan |
H. Nl,.,N
is war"
The NovOsti, Greece's champion,
says nothing.
Athens, March 12.-COpyrighted by |
the Associated PreSS)-The Cretan |
question is passing through a period |
Of quiescence, the lull having follow |
ed the reply of Greece TO the Powers
and everybody seems to be wondering
where and when the storm will break
put afresh. In spite Of the repeated
assertions made in the different capt.
ais of Europe that the Powers were
lcting in concert toward Greece, it is
here that if this was the
,ase, the threatened coercion of
Greece would have been an accom-
)lished fact long before this.
There seems but three ways out of
he present difficulty and the most
peculiar is that the Powers must ac-
ept the offers of Greece to withdraw
Ter feet from Cretan waters and al
ow her army of occupation to remain
under the control of some
oreign officer outranking Col Vas
on, to be used for the pacification of
he island and when that is accom-
,lished il shall be decided whether
yrete prefers annexation or autono-
ny.
The second suggested solution is the
coercion. real or seeming. of Greece
" a blockade of the Greek coasts as
veil as the island Of Crete. This
would be a dangerous and difficult
ask. In the first place it would re-
Iuire an immense feet Of vessels ow-
no to the almost innumerable islands
composing the Grecian archipelago to
make such a blockade effective. Be
ides Greece's reply to this proposition