Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-26
ENGLAND AND CRETE.
The Masses Protest Against the Coercion
OF Greece by the Powers

The Masses Protest Against tue OoerOioii
or Greece by the Powers
LONDON. February 25-Discontent IS
growing among the masses in respect TO
the policy of the government toward
Crete. The Liberals are furious, and their
newspapers are making appeals to the
people.
The Daily Chronicle strongly urges the
masses to agitate at all length against
the government, and Jerome X. Jerome's
paper. To-day says that the Marquis Of
Salisbury is no Englishman, that he is
doing the bidding of that "pompous
! blackguard Emperor William and ac-
cuses the Conservative papers Of being
owned body and SOUL by capitalists
che concluding sentences of the article
to To-day are: IF the concert of Eu-
rope must be broken up to have done
with the devils work, in the name OF
| God, let it go down and he crowned in
its own blood Better war from the Rhine
to the Urals than that this infamy should
continue. There has been concert Of
nothing but the shrieks of the dying and
| the tortured
The Chronicle, in big type, prints dis
play article calling on the nation TO take
active steps in the Cretan situation. 1t
says: Organize. agitate and denounce
the dishonor to England's flag by associa-
ton with the sultan and the coercion Of
| Greece"
The Chronicle publishes a two-coumn
,r E
| fairs Skouzes, of Greece, dated February
l5 and addressed to the courts of Eu-
rope. explaining that the dispatch of the
Greek fleet and troops was intended to
protect subjects in Crete begging the
powers to impress the sultan of the dam
ger incurred If Turkish troops were sent
to Crete. and declaring that Greece would
not be responsible for the consequences of
such action.
The Chronicle announces that the for
eign admirals have requested Col. Vassos
to quit the island of Crete, and threaten
to lombard him if he attacks any posi-
ton occupied by the Turks Col. Vassos
replied that he must execute his orders
Henry Norman, the correspondent of The
Chronicle, adds the statement: col Vas
will not accept autonomy under the Turk
ish flag"
The Times says: The powers exercise
no effective control. over the course Of
events beyond the range Of their guns.
The powers seem to be afraid to move
lest they provoke war. but unless they
move speedily and to some purpose. war
is likely to result from their inactiOn.
II the concert is so Ineffective in dealing
with the affairs Of the island, what are
we to expect when the reforms i'm the
continental domains Of the sultan come
up for serious consideration? The want
of the policy clearly defined is d greater
evil than anything Greece can do. At
least three powers have to take account
of the popular feeling, which does not
pay much heed TO distinctions that seem
important TO dplomatists. Public opinion
is impatient and incredulous. and events
are moving while diplomacy stands stu"
The Pail Mall speaks of the in
tolerable dilatorness of the powers,
and says: THE added details about
Sundays bombardment make It eX-
ceedingly nasty reading When the
ships ceased firing the Turks contin-
Ued TO shoot at the Christians, while
the latter dared not reply. Since then
the Turkish cannon have been still
busily engaged while the disheartened
( insurgents remained silent, In fear of the
shells of the powers
4 dispatch from Vienna says IL is re-
ported that Queen Olga. who was an
honorary admiral Of the Russian fleet. has
sent the insignia back to ST. Petersburg.
declaring that she cannot hold rank with
a fleet that fired on the Greeks.
CANEA. February 25-The Governors
palace, with all the archives. was destroy
ed by fire yesterday, and. as fire broke
! out elsewhere in the town at the same
time It is suspected that inceudiaries
have been at work The situation is
| grave Armed and excited Mussulmans
are paradlng the streets. full of indigna-
ton at the news from Selinos. where Mus
sulmans are besieged
The Banghazi arabs threaten to burn
| the whole Of Canea. While the palace
was burning, a strong box containing 700
! francs fell into the ruins and broke open,
whereupon there was a wild rush of Turk
! ish soldiers and Mussulmans to secure the
! treasure The foreign marines were OBJ
( liged to fire blank cartridges TO restrain
! them. and for a time a serious conflict
( between the Turks and Europeans was
| threatened.
The burning Of the palace destroys the
/ last vestige of the machinery of the Turk
| ish government. Whatever may be the
/ future government a process akin to the
! sponging of a slate and starting afresh
must be resorted to.
/ ATHENS, February 25.-Two influential
papers counsel moderation and Difference
| to the European powers. Other papers
urge an immediate declaration Of war and
an advance into Macedonia the con
| sequences Of which," they say. would
injure Europe more than Greece" King
! George has sent the following message to
the Greek army: "The King in the present
/ critical circumstances relies for aid on
the nation. his officers and the army, and
| upon no foreign power
I GREECE ORDERED TO ENACUATE.
St. Petersburg, February 25.-Rus-
! STA, through the Russian minister at
| Athens. NJ. K. Onou, has called upon
! Greece to withdraw all of her troops,
and the fleet from Crete within three
days.
! MRS STEVENSON REEL ECTED.