The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-18
A CLASH Is EXPECTED
BOOM OF THE WARSHlP MAY
SOON BE HEARD IN
GRECIAN WATERS.
TROOPS START FOR THE FRONTIER.
GREECE Is SENDING SOLDIERS
TO THE TURKISH BOUNDARY
THE POWERS WILL GIVE GREECE A FREE HAND.
1t Is Believed They Will Stand Aloof
and Watch the Plucky Little King
dom Annihilate the Bloody Turk.
All Sorts of War Rumors
Are Ahoat on the Subject.
The POWERS WILL GIVE GREECE A FREE HAND.

a London, Feb. ia dispatch to the
ATimes from Canea announces that four
ships belonging to the torpedo hotilla and
1.-THE transport commanded by Prince
(. George of Greece have arrived in the
fharbor of Canea.
III 1t is also reported that the Italian Of
Ulcer attached to the new gendarcrmie,
l5who went to Kisimo for the purpose of
investigating the alleged atrocities there,
#has returned to Canea. He fully CON
Firms the dispatches of several days ago
d II these dispatches it was announced that
The Mohammedan inhabitants had been
Hbcseiged in their quarters at Kisimo.
IHiring in the streets speedily followed
'and twentysiX persons are said to have
been killed, the bodies remaining unburicd
for several days. This Italian officer
Bays in his report:
Isl Firing by the Christians in the streets
caused stampede of the Mohammedan
population. Most of the natives of the
town made but little defense. Only Il
New of the Christians were wounded
Most of the bodies had been removed or
buried before I reached Kisimo, but the
: names of the victims have been recorded
and the evidence as to the number OF
a killed and wounded has not been eXag-
4 gerated.'
81 According to reports received at Canca.
"a Turkish warship arrived at Kisimo on
"wednesday and was Immediately fired on
E,bv the Christians. The Mohammcdan
Ejaculation is now shut up in Kisimo for
X tress, where six Christians have also
s2taken refuge.
M Reports from every quarter i'll Crete
INDICATED increasing gravity in the situa-
fEtion. The Mohammedans Of Sitla ap-
narently have been hard pressed by the
christians surrounding the town. They
sent an urgent request to the governor
at Hera klion asking him to send troops
Immediately. The governor ordered 900
bashi-bazouks and detachment of the
regulars to embark, but he rescinded the
order owing to opposition on the part OF
the vice consuls representing the powers.
The Mohammedan population at Selma
/, have been besieged for several days. 1t
4 is stated that twenty people. including II
Girl have been killed and another girl
kidnapped. The troops besieging the
block house at Alucan have been relieved.
according to the reports received at
Canea.
1t is also said the Christians fired on
Sal THU clov In =
mt retired when the troops replied with
artillery.
IA The consuls at Retimo report that de-
spite the setting at liberty of the Moham-
medans in the surrounding Villages, the
Moslems at Retimo continue to plllagc
the shops of the Christians and threaten
TO burn their houses Several of the
n buildings owned by Christians have al
ready been blown up by the use of dyna-
mite. In the sections surrounding Rc-
time the Christians are reduced to de-
\ spair
The British vice consul ut Heraklion
4 has been ordered to send all of the sub
N iccts of Great Britain on board the men
of-war unless the Mohammedans actively
" resist them. The situation at Heraklion
& is unchanged. Two companies OF troops
which were sent for the purpose of rein
stating the refugees at Burkeloies, have
been besieged by Christians during the
last ten days. and all means of commu-
ncation cut off. Should they surrender
and be massacred it is feared that the
army will break loose from all restraint.
81 Over 200 refugees are reported as be-
ing shut up in the Cryptoge monastery
near Suda Their only hope of liberation
lies in intervention by the cOnsuls. but
nothing has been done in the matter as
yet. m ,.,
A dispatch to the Times from Athens
saws that in spite of obstinate Official
Is silence. it is known that something is hap
pening on the Turkish frontier necessl.
s. tating the movement of troops in that
y direction. Turkish authorities are aware
4 of the difficulties and are taking serious
military precautions against Greece, oW
a ing to the excited state of feeling, :.
Macedonia has organized large bodies
of Albanian Ghegs ready to invade ines
\ saly and engage in guerilla warfare as
& set.off to the Grecian- Macedonian move
ment Whatever truth there is in this
report it is certain that there was az
q unusual connection in military circles II
Athens Yesterday.