The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-11
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London, March 10-The Daily News
tomorrow will publish a dispatch from
Canea, saying that the MuSSulmans
who have been besieged at Kandamos
and who have arrived at Canea, were
conveyed there on board the Italian
| transport, Trinicia, and that another
vessel is expected to arrive shortly
with more refugees. The force which
relieved the beleaguered inhabitants at
Kandamos also assisted 112 soldiers
who were beSieged in the Spaniako
block house. The dispatch also says
| that the arrival of the Trinicia with
her load of refugees has created a deep
impression in Canea. One of the chief
beys says it is impossible to express
the gratitude felt by the moslems to-
ward England
lates the story of the rescue of the be-
leaguered residents at Kandamos upon
the authority of the officers of Trim
icia, the Turkish governor at Kanda-
mos and others. His account says the
utmost credit is due to Sir A. Biliotti,
the British consul a Canea, who man
aged the entire affair personally. With
out him, the correspondent says, the
besieged people could not have es-
capped. In the first instance, he went
alone to Kandamos after comforting
with the Cretan leaders, who expressed
doubt of their ability to control their
followers. The place was surrounded
by 1000 Cretans, who kept up a con-
tinuous fusilade, which sometimes was
replied by a slight fire. Consul Bill
otti entered the town and remained un-
til nightfall, when having become con-
vinced of the absolute necessity of en-
ploying force of Europeans to effect
the release of the beleaguerd ones, he
returned from Selino. which place he
started on his return to KandamoS
with force of 250 British, 100 French,
100 Austrians, $50 Russians and SO Ital-
ians, with four guns This force was
commanded by the captain of the Brit
ish warship Rodney. Upon arriving at
Kandamos the troops remained on the
outskirts, while the consul entered the
town to arrange for the sortie. Some
delay occurred owing to a lack of
beasts of burden. The Cretans had
ceased their firing, and consented that
the Moslem soldiers should retain their
arms, but when the latter emerged and
a start was made for Selino a scene
of the widest confusion and one of
great danger took place. The horde
of Cretan insurgents surrounded the
refugees and wherever gap occurred
in the escort, would dash in and tear
their weapons from the Bashi Bazouks
and snatch the bundles which many of
the women and children carried. 1t
was with the utmost difficulty that the
Moslems were prevented from firing on
the insurgents, and thus bringing about
a horrible slaughter. During the con-
fusion one girl was kidnapped
by the Cretans. The insurgents followed
4-.S ieluSees, pressing in upon their
column as far as Spaniako, where there
is a gorge blocked by the escort after
the refugees had passed. This pre-
vented the Cretans from advancing
further. The embarkation on board
the Trinicia began ct 5 o'clock in the
evening. end ended at 8 o'clock. After
sunset, the Cretans at Selino began TO
make hostile demonstrations against
the Moslems. With a view to putting
a stop to their manifestation, the war
ships fired several rife shots in the air
and also fred one of their guns.
The governor of Kandamos says that
when the people in the town were re-
lieved by Europeans there were only
seven boxes of rifle cartridges left, and
that the gun ammunition viii be COM
pletely exhausted. Thirteen persons
had been killed and 20 wounded since
March 6. There was neither bread nor
rice IN the town, but there was plen-
tiful supply of meat. Had there been
a sufficient amount of bread and am
the governor declares the in
I'D bitants of the town and the garrison