The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-09
Greece's Answer in Full.

London March S.-The Chronicle to-
morrow will publish a dispatch from
Athens giving the full text of the reply
of Greece to the powers. After a brief
preamble, the reply continues:
In view Of the extraordinary gravity
of the results which will follow his
majesty's government considers it to be
it's duty to submit to the powers it's
opinion of the measures decided upon,
an opinion which is the result of long
experience and a profound acquaint-
ance with the situation in Crete.
Impressed by the sentiment which
animate the powers and their solcitude
for general peace the Greek government
will not fail in it's duty since Greece
also ardently desires to contribute to
the maintenance of peace and to save
from utter ruin the population of an
island put to so severe Il trial and so
often decmated.
We believe that the new regime of
autonomy adopted by the powers un-
happily cannot correspond to the noble
intentions that inspired it, and that it
will suffer the fate of the different ad-
ministrative systems which at various
times. and without success, have been
tried in Crete. This is not the first time
that Crete finds herself in state of
insurrection In recent times on more
than six occasions the horrors of an
archy have shaken and imperilled her
existence.
If, then, the new regime with which it
is proposed to endow her is not calcu-
lated to re-establish order in a defini-
nor
not doubt the impossibility of putting
an end by means of it to the present
state of revolution. Anarchy will con-
tinue to rule the country with fire and
sword in it's hands. Blind fanaticism
will continue it's destructive work of
extermnatng a people which assuredly
does not deserye such fate. Before
such prospect our responsibility
would be enormous if we did not most
earnestly urge the powers not to insist
upon the scheme of autonomy propos-
ed, but rather to restore to Crete what
she already had at the time of the en-
REIMBURSEMENT of the other provinces
which form the kingdom of Greece and
to lead her back to Greece, to which
she belonged since Capodistrias was
president.
In the presence of the recent scenes
of massacre, pillage and conflagration
in Canea, in the presence of the fright
full anguish to which the inhabitants
of Crete have been exposed and mem
aced by the boundless fury of the Mus
sulman population, who prevented the
departure of Christian families for
Greece, which has always been a
providential refuge for all these nliser-
able beings, our whole country was torn
with remorse for the responsibility it
assumed last year in inducing the Gre
tans to hay down their arms. The mis-
fortunes that resulted forbid US to un-
dertake once more such task and if
we had attempted it our voice would
certainly have been feeble. It's echo
would not have reached the Cretan
people. 1t being the case, therefore
that a new regime of autonomy could
not fulfil the noble aim of the powers
it is obvious what would be the situa-
tion if the unhappy isle from to-day
until the establishment of this regime.
If the powers believe it to be their
duty to persevere in their resolutions
with the above views and in the name
of humanity as well as in the interest
of the island the pacification of which
is the unique object of the solicitude
of the powers We do not hesitate to ap-
peal to them on the subject of the other
measures. namely, the recall of our
military forces. Indeed, if because of
presence OF the united squadrOns in
Cretan waters and in the conviction
that these squadrons will not permit