The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-12
OENTTCT DR.. A. E. BUCHANAN
UENllOI sa.ss When Building.
THE SURRENDER OF VOLO
BRITISH JOURNALISTS NEGOTIATED
FOR PEACEFUL DELIVERY.
Greeks Were Terrified at the Incom-
ing Troops, and Played the Role of
SycOphants-Turks Arrive.
G. w. Stevens, in London Mail.

G. w. Stevens, in London Mail.
''By the Lord, there's the British flag!'
And by the Lord there 1t was-the glorious
imperturbable. confident Union Jack wav-
ing opposite the booking-office of the Veles-
tino railway station In the very middle Of
the Turkish army.
All the Englishmen present got up and
rushed at it. And there holding it was
white-ducked, clean-faced. clear-skinned
straight-eyed bluejacket of twenty There
were some other men there, and some other
flags, but stood for little space to cool
my eyes with the bluejacket. How good he
looked How honest and steady and trim
and fearless and what dumpy ruffians the
dear, fearless, good-natured, disheveled
Turks looked by the side Of him. was al
most relieved; had not turned into Turk
after all.
But what was 1t all about? Had England
annexed Greece, or had the powers inter-
vened to stop the war. or what? 1t soon
came out. A deputation of the British and
French eonsuls. and several British and
American correspondents had come to tell
us that Volo was evacuated and at our
mercy, and TO beg us not to hurt the peace
able inhabitants. We knew the fact, and
the request was a good deal of an i'm
pertinence. But, of course. they didn't
know that. poor dears; their minds We're
so stuffed with Greek stories of Turkish
ferocity and their nerves were so jumpy
with fecollections of a fortnights panic
that they never stopped to ask themselves
whether any sane man. to put it no higher
would massacre the shop-keepers of Volo
within sight OF war ships from half of Eu-
rope
1t was highly informal no doubt. for
British journalists 10 negotiate for the sur
render of the second port in Greece. Bur
INFORMAL or not let II be put on record
that British journalists came out to save
Greeks when the Greek army had left them
10 their tate, and the Greek mayor and
corporation stayed differing at home
However 1t was not so bad as that Cant
NedJib Bey was sent off with a procla-
nation assuring peace 10 the peaceable and
evil 10 the evil doer. / galloped out after
him; II war correspondents We're to be ele-
waited into high contracting parties why
not even / with the rest? Ii would ne
rather a fine thing to negotiate capltula-
ton between two correspondents OF the
Daily Mail. True II was not exactly a
capitulat!on, since the town was not mill
tarily occupied
A SHIP WAS THERE.
But there was still one military. or naval
element left The Greek fleet, true to the
last TO the national traditions. was not GO
ing to be left out when there was any
talking 10 be done. 1t appeared that there
lay In Volo harbor battle ship-that Psara
flagship OF Admiral Somethingopoulos
or Tweedledouris or another-ten sloops and
ar armed transport what We're they GO
ing 10 do? They might shell Us as we went
IA, and we could do nothing. on the other
hand. that would surely justify US In re-
prisals ia the way of smashing up public
buildings and things that the Greeks would
hardly like. The question altogether WAS
queer one Did Nolo surrender, or did ii
not2 II ii did. the Greek ships could do