The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-09

London, March S-The Chronicle to-
morrow will publish a dispatch from
Athens, giving the full text Of the re-
ply of Greece to the powers.
After a brief preamble, the reply con-
tinues:
In view of the extraordinary grav-
ity of the results which will follow, his
majesty's government considers it to
be itG duty to submit to the powers its
opinion of the measures decided upon,
an opinion which is the result of long
experience and acquaintance with the
situation in Crete.
Impressed by the sentiments which
animate the powers and their solicit
tude for general peace, the Greek gov
eminent will not fail in this duty since
Greece also ardently desires to contrib
ute to the maintenance Of peace, and
to save from utter ruin the population
of an island put to severe trial and so
often decimaued.
I'VE believe that the new regime of
autonomy adopted by the powers, I'M
happily, can not correspond to the
noble intentions that inspire il, and
that it will suffer the fate of the diff
ferent administrative systems which at
various times and without success have
been tried in Crete.
NUT The ElhSI lime.
''This is not the first time that Crete
finds herself in state Of insurrection-
In recent times on more than six occa-
sions the horrors of anarchy have
shaken and imperiled her existence
If the new regime with which 1t is
proposed to endow her is not calcu-
lated 10 re-establish order in q, definite
manner, the Greek government cannot
double the responsibility of putting an
y.fs 80 he ant rar a
of revolution. Anarchy will continue
to ravage the country with fire and
sword in it's hands and blind fanati-
cism will continue its destructive work
of exterminating a people which as
suredly does not deserve such a fate.
Before such prospect, our respon-
sibility would be enormous If we did
not most earnestly urge the powers
not to insist upon the scheme of au-
tonony proposed, but rather to restore
to Crete what she already had at the
time of the enfranchisement OF the
other provinces which form the king
dom of Greece, and to lead her back 10
Greece, to which she belonged since
Capriodistis was president.
ONCE IN EUROPE.
I'm the presence of the recent mas
sacre, pillage and confiagratlon IN ca
nea. in the presence of the frightful
anguish to which the inhabitants of
Crete have been exposed and menaced
by the boundless fury of the Mussul-
man population. who prevented the de-
Darture of Christian families from
Greece which has always been prov
idential refuge for all these miserable
beings. our whole country was torn
with remorse for the responsibility 1t
assumed last year in inducing the Gre
tans to lay down their arms. The
nisfortunes that resulted FORBID US 70
undertake. once more, Such TASK, ana
IL we had attempted II our voice
1,-o,,id certainly have been feeble. It's
echo would not have reached the Gre
1T being the case, therefore, that
new regime of autonomy could not Iui-
81 the noble aims of the powers, II is
obx-ina1s what would be the situation
of the unhappy island until the estao-
lishrnent Of this regime.
..Tf the powers believe it to be their
617tv 10 persevere in their resolutions
with the above views, and IN the
name of humanity as well as III the
interest of the island, the pacificalion
of which is the unique object OF the
soIicitude of the powers, We do not hes-
tate 10 appeal to them on the SUBJECTS
Of the other measures, namely, the
recall of our military forces Indeed,
if because of the presence OF the
united sorladrons in CTetan waters and
~ the conviction that the squadrons
VIII not permit Turkish troops to dis i
embark on the island, the presence /
also of all the ships of the Greek fleet !
of Crete is judged to be unnecessary,
the Dresence of the Greek army on the /
island nevertheless. is shown TO be /
desirable alike from sentiments of |
humanity and in the interests OF the /
defnitive reestablishment of order.
OUR DUTY FORBIDS."
4,t
abandon the Cretan people TO the |
mercy of Mussulman fanaticism and |
the Turkish army, which at all times
has deliberately and intendedly par /
ticipated in the aggressive acts or the /
popuiace against the Christians.
Above all, if our troops on the Island,
who are worthy Of all the confidence
Ct the powers, have received man
date 10 pacify the country, their de-
ssires and intentions would have re-
ceived promptly the most perfect sat
isfaction It would be. then, after the
reestablishment Oh ORDER mat II would
he possible to learn the desires freely
expressed Of the Cretah people for
decision as to their fate.
s9rhe sorrows that have required
regularly in Crete for many decades
naef not only do not occur without
profoundly agitating the Hellenic peo-
ME but they also interrupt social ac-
fivity and gravely disturb the econ
or,1y and finances of the state. Even
if we admit that it would be possible
TO forget, for an instant, that we
share the common religion of Crete.
that we are of the same race and
bound by ties of blood, we could not in
silence allow the powers to assume
thai the Greek state is able any longer
TO resist such shocks. For this reason
we appeal to the generous sentiments
apimating the powers and beg them
TO hermit the Cretan people them
selves TO declare how they desire to
be governed. SkOUSES.
The Chronicle adds, on high author
isy. that the Greek ENJOYS abroad
have been instructed, on receipt of this
reply, to inform the government to
which they are accredited that Greece
is prepared to recognize the temporary
soyereisrty of the sultan to withdraw
his fleet completely and to place the
Greek army in command of any mill
fary representative of the powers
senior in rank to Colonel Vassos for