Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-15
.DELYANNIS FOR PEACE.
But he Asks a Credit to Make
Warlike Preparations.
THE TURKS NOTIFY THE GREEKS

That Another Invasion ofTurkish Ter
ritory by Irregulars VIII Be Regard
ed as a Declaration of war-Greek
Crown Princess For War.
Athens. April 15.-On the reassem-
bling of the boule yesterday NJ. DEFY
annis, the premier, introduced in the
presence of crowded chamber bill
granting the government a credit Of
23,000000 drachmas for the ministries
of war and marine.
The premier asked the house to ex-
pedite the passage of the budget.
Dealing with the development of the
foreign situation, he declared that the
powers had taken their stand on the
principle of the integrity of Turkey,
but up to the present had not ex-
pressed an opinion with regard to the
proposals Greece had made for a pa
cific solution of the difficulty. After
dwelling upon the right of the Cretans
to settle their own destinies he de-
clared that, despite all which had hap
pened, Greece still hoped the powers
would agree to peaceful settlement.
The situation on the frontier was not,
he said, created by Greece, but by the
strange policy of a state which, by
precipitate ornaments, had compelled
Greece to assemble an army capable
of coping with all eventualities and of
defending the interests and honor of
the country
In concluding M. Delyannis said that
the Greek government was doing its
utmost to repair the imperfections in
seDarable from an army so hastily
collected, and he hoped that in the
course of few days an army would
be concentrated abundantly capable of
doing its full duty to the country.
The Turkish government has formally
informed the Greek government that
any further raid of irregulars into
Turkish territory will be regarded by
Turkey as a declaration of war upon
the part of Greece.
It is said that sharp differences have
arisen in the Greek royal family as to
the proper course for the government
to pursue. The crown princess, in de-
fiance of her husband and of King
George. has gone entirely over to the
war party.
~ANSSOA
Ethnike Hetaria, the insurgents who
have returned across the frontier are
only those who were unable to follow
their more active companions They
left a guard at various posts just with
in the frontier. At Douyazi they were
attacked by an overwhelming force of
Turks, and retreated. The band will be
reformed with newly arrived volun-
teers. 1t is stated that the Turks who
followed the retiring invaders threat
ened to cross the frontier into Greek
territory, and the news has had a dis
piriting effect in Athens.
The Turkish troops are now cen
tered in very strong force at Grevena,
and the insurgents. have little chance
of advancing further. Seyfoullah Bey,
the officer who was sent by Edhem
Pasha to Krania, with instructions to
ascertain the exact situation in that
locality, is an ex-attache of the Turk
ish embassy at Athens. He declares
that he recognized among the insur-
gents near Krania, and between that
town and the border, several Greek
officers whom he had met previously
at Athens. He also asserts that the
Greek troops on the frontier made no
attempt whatever to prevent incur
sions upon Turkish territory.
Considerable comment is caused here
by the news from Constantinople that
General Grumbxoff the well known
German military tactician, is going to
Elassona to inspect the Turkish artill-
cry, and that Admiral Kallay, of the
German feet, has gone to the Darda-
nelles to inspect the Turkish squadron
and fotilla there. Both officers stand
in the front rank of the German gov
eminent for this special duty.
A Vienna dispatch says that the best
Informed diplomats there regard war as
inevitable. They say the strain cannot
much longer be borne by either Turkey
or Greece, and that the time has. passed
for the powers to attempt to intervene.
In view of the dangerous position as
sumed by Greece, the question is re-
iterated whether she does not count
upon some power coming to her sup
port at the crucial moment. The situa-
ton is regarded here as analogous to
the time when Servia attacked Turkey,
in 1876, when Russia and Great Britain
saved defeated Servia from annihila-
ton.