Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-14
GRAECO-TURKIs SITUATION.
"ComprOmise I'm the Air" the WEI
come News Regarding Ii.

LONDON April 1S.-The Athens cor
respondent of the Daily Chronicle says
thai COMPROMISE is evidently In the an.
Turkey is showing herself exceptionally
friendly TO Greece. and it is believed III
diplomatic circles that the two parties
IL left alone, would settle the affair III ds
many days.
Advices from Epirus represent the situa-
ton there as a reign of terror. Ihe TURKS
are laying the country waste with nre
and sword. The Vail Of Janina has order
ed every Christian to give the TURKISH
army ten sheep and bullock
DISPATCHES DELAYED.
ATHENS. GREECE, April B.-The
frontier situation is developing slowly for
two reasons In the first place. bad
weather conditions-snow, rain, and Dit
terly-cold winds-have made campaigning
i'm the mountainous districts anything but
a picnic. and have retarded all move
ments. In the second place, Intentionally
or otherwise. all dispatches are being
considerably delayed, not unusual occur
renee since the beginning OF the present
crisis. =,
But If the development is slow, IL Is
none the less menacing. and an open out
break of hostiities or a back-down On the
mart of one or the other country or both
of the countries most interested cannot be
much longer delayed. az the strain OF
maintaining armies of about 10000 men
each I'm the field is being felt with steadily
growing severity by both Turkey and
Greece so that a declaration OF war
would be welcomed by either side as
relief.
The Powers are still trying TO avert
war. but with little prospect or success.
II Is stated that the French Ambassador
-.
instructed to draft an autonomous consu-
tuition for the Island of Crete, allowing
the Cretans 20 choose their own governor,
and providing for a simultaneous Greek
and Turkish evacuation of the island. Ii
IS feared that these efforts will turn out
to have been made too late
CRETAN HOSTILITIES.
CANEA. April 13.-While fifty soldiers
u,ere Landing TO reinforce the force at
Kissamo. the Greeks fired on the boat.
Several shots struck an Austrian boat,
which was assisting, whereupon TWO
Austrian war vessels and one turkish
gunboat bombarded the Greeks and re-
pulsed them.
II is said the Cretans recently impaled
outside of the forts Turkish non-com-
missioned officer whom they had cap
tured.
BOMBARDMENT OF TURKS.
CANEA, April 13.-To-day the TURKS
fired upon the insurgents at Akrotiri,
but the fusillade was stopped by the IN
tervention of the foreign warships.
BRITAIN AND CRETE.
LONDON. April BAT banquet
given by the Eighty Club tonight, Sir
George Trevelyan presiding, Sir William
Vernon Harcourt. the Liberal leader
charged the government with shrinking
from a definite vote on the employment
of the British forces in Crete.
GREEKS RECROSS FRONTIER.
TRIKHALA, April 49, 10 p. Mine IN
surgent bands have returned TO Greek
territory, with the exception OF one on
two. which are composed of only a small
number of men.
BALTINO A LA TURK.
LONDON, April 13-A dispatch to the
Daily News from Constantinop.e says the
Turkish version of the fighting az Baltlno
has been published in the newspaper
Ikdam. which states that 1900 Greek
troops were allowed TO attack the place,
but that their retreat was then cut on
and the Greeks were finally worsted,
leaving 2OO0 dead and dying upon the
field. The. Ikdam adds: "Out of pure
magnanimity, the Turks took no prison.