The record-union., 1897-03-02
CRETAN TROUBLES.
The Town of Candiamo Falls Into the
Hands of Insurgents.

| CANEA, March IA Turkish dele
cation went to the Greek Consulate
this morning asking protection for the
MuSSulmanS who are blockaded at Can
diamo, if they yielded to the Greek
troops, and declaring they accepted the
! protection of Greece. The Vice Con-
sui promised them complete safety. He
SAID Greece was animated by the most
| benevolent sentiments The MussuI-
mans of Canea are greatly excited by
the news that the Mussulmans of Can
diamo are in the greatest peril.
| y p. m.-The town of Candiamo has
fallen into the hands of the insur-
gents. No details have been received.
| Later advices as to the capture of
Candlamo by the insurgents are that
the Greeks first took the fortress of
Vavaros, who dominated the town.
where there were 5000 Mussulmans.
The Beys, having appealed to Tewfik
Pasha to get the Sultan's protection for
besieged Mussulmans, he replied that
the Sultan was pOwerless to insure it.
and that they must look to the Powers.
Thereupon the Beys went to the Eng
iish Consulate to ask for assistance.
GREEK DEPUTIES AROUSED.
ATHENS, March 1.-At a crowded
meeting of the Chamber of Deputies
to-day Premier Delyannis announced
IN the most positive terms that it was
the Turks who had provoked the fleets
OF the Powers to lombard Canea. a
The Minister of Marine read to the
Chamber the injunctions addressed by
the foreign Admirals to the Commo-
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either a sea or a land attack upon oc-
cupled fortresses or an attack of the
Greek fleet upon the Turkish interior,
and stating that any attempt at eva
sion of these injunctions would be re-
PEELED by the combined fleets of the
Powers.
This created a great sensation in the
Chamber. Deputy Seiais asserted that
the reply Of the Greek Government
should have been a declaration of war.
The Minister of Marine, resuming,
said that the Government had notified
the Powers that it would be impossible
to impose such a condition Of inactivity
upon Colonel Vassos. He stated further
that Greece would use all the means in
her power to prevent the landing of
turkish troops in Crete, but would re-
s1st an attack upon occupied towns, SO
long as the occupation lasted.
Premier Delyannis, who arose again.
Indignantly protested against the bonl-
bardment as an unjust savage and i'm
pious act, inexplicable under the spirit
or the letter of international law
Greece he said, had instructed her rep
resentatives abroad to protest against
he hnr Ioy dina MT fa ho -
ernments to which they were accredited
1--WE are convinced" he concluded
that the Admirals of the foreign fleet
acted without instructions. We are
small nation and cannot prevent such
acts. but we protest with all the force
Of a great people, knowing that we have
all the great peoples with US in the pro-
test
Prolonged cheers followed the ut
terances of Premier Delyannis, and the
Chamber adjourned.
It is stated that the Greek Commodore
Reinicke will be recalled from Crete, os
tensibly on the ground of ill-health, and
that he will be replaced by General
Spachtourist.
LONDON, March IA dispatch TO
the Times" from Constantinople says:
All relations between the courts of st.
Petersburg and Athens have been
broken off, The Athens papers stated
that King George will shortly start for
Thessaly to maneuver 2o,00O men on the
Parsala plains.
The troops who were garrisoned at
Janina have been dispatched to the
frontier. 1t is alleged that they pillaged
Christian villages while en- route.