, 1897-04-09
THE PORTE'S DEMANDS.
1T WILL WITHDRAW THE OTTO
MAN TROOPS IF GREECE
WILL GO FIRST.
The Powers Must Also Agree to Pacify
the 1sland-Greece Must Evacuate
Crete Forthwith-Protests Against
h Appointment by the Powers of
an European Governor.

London, April S.-A dispatch TO the
Times from C~onstantinople says tina,
the porte this afternoon communicated
to the ambassadors the contents of three
circulars dispatched to The Ottoman rep
resentatives abroad.
The first, dated April 5, notified the
powers that the porte is willing to with
draw the Turkish garrison from Crete
Immediately IL the Greeks previously
withdraw and the powers guarantee To
pacify che Islands. II demands also
that Greece should evacuate Crete forth,
with. The second is dated April 6, and
protests. in anticipation, against the ap-
pointment by the powers Of a European
governor OF the island.
The third dated April 7, protests
against the injustice OF disarming the
Cretan Mohammedans while the Chris
CANS are permitted 10 retain their arms.
The Athens correspondent OF the
lines will say tomorrow:
The opinion OF the Greek newspapers
is virtually unanimous us TO the recen,
declaration OF the powers. 1t is thai the
European concert, after u conspicuous
failure as to Crete, is gradually tending
70 dissolution, and will be Obliged o
content itself with Il mere udmonition.
There is an evident disinclinatiOn on
the part of some of the powers to carry
out any program OF coercion, and q
Weakening OF purpose in the European
federation, which is showing signs OF
Iecrepitude. The similarity of language
between the declaration and the recent
warning of the journal de St. Peters,
burg has been noticed here, and this
latest step Of the powers is attributed to
the Russian initiative.
Count Muravieff, the Russian foreign
minister, has already become the bette
noir of the Greeks. His uniformly hos
Tile attitude has produced great indig-
nation. Well informed persons here be.
lieve Count Muravieff, vino inherits the
traditions Of an autocrat family, is re-
oSi'Su plty u hluSlOiLul lOlc Ill Gus
ropean politics and to leave an impress
sion upon the history of his time.
"One Of The opposition Journals pro-
fesses to know that u proposal has been
communicated to Greece, through one Of
its representatives abroad, that if Greece
will submit to the powers in the Cretan
affair she will receive as a recompense
the territory included within the from
tier lines traced by the Berlin confer
ence Of 1881, together with a portion OF
Macedonia, including Salonica."
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Arta says it is reported there that
the Turks are concentrating a large
body Of troops between PhillippadOs and
%Joannina, and have seized all the flour
mills and grain stores. All the irregu-
lars have left Arta and are marching
northward in three bands.
The Rome correspondent OF the Daily |
News learns that the powers will begin
the blockade of Greece simultaneously
with a new proclamation TO the Cretans.
Everything indicates that Greece is
firmly determined to resist. The Greek
government is negotiating with the well
known Polish sportsman and ex-aide-
de-camp of King Humbert, Col. Juracze-
wski, to go to Athens to command the
Italian volunteers, 800 of whom are al
ready in Greece. Several hundred more
are about to start for Larissa. Prince
O%descalcihi is assisting the expeditions.
HAWAII MATTERS.
San Francisco, April S.-The steam
ship Monowai arrived this evening from
Australia, via Apia and Honolulu, with
the following advices:
Honolulu. April president Dole
gave out information today that VIM.
A. Kinney, a local lawyer, had been Sc
lected to go to Washington as an annex
alton commissioner. He is to leave OF
the 7th inst. The mail on the Both inst.
brought this government some inside
Information on the annexation question
and it is expected that the important
matter will be brought before the pres
ent session OF congress. At present At
torney General Smith and A. S. Hart
well are in Washington in the interests
Of Il closer political union: what they
have accomplished this government on
ly knows and its officials decline to give
out anything.
The steamship Gaelic, which is to ar
rive on the Sd, will have on board the
new Chinese embassy, on its way to
Washington. The Gaelic Ia especially
by the Chinese government
to carry them. C. A. Spreckles, who con-
the Sprecklesville plantation, has
every white man on the
place. with the exception Of two. and
has put Orientals in the places Of the
dismissed men.
FIRE AT KNOXVILLE.
Chattanooga, Tenn, April 8.-A spe-
cial to the News from Knoxville says:
The most disastrous fire eve expert