The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-13
George of Greece, have arrived in the har
Dor of Canea.

George of Greece, have arrived in the bar.
Dor of Canea.
1t Is also reported that the Italian officer
attached TO the new gendarmrie. who went
to KisamO for the purpose OF investigating
the alleged atrocities there, has returned
| to Canea. lie fully confirms the dispatches
OF several days ago. In these reports il
was announced that the Mohammcdan in
habltarts had been besieged In their houses
at kisamo Firing in the streets finally
| followed, and twenty-five persons were said
| to have been killed. the bodies remaining
| unhnried for several days.
This Italian officer says in his report:
Firing BY the Christians in the streets
| raused stampede of the Mohammedan
population. The Moslem natives of the town
| made little defence. Only a few Of the
Christians were wounded. I did not see
any corpses Most OF the bodies had been
removed or buried before reached Ksamo
J but the names of the victims have been
/ recorded and the evidence as TO the num-
Der o. the killed and wounded has not been
| exaggerated"
According to reports received at canea
a Turkish warship arrived at Kisamo on
"Wednesday and was Immediately fired on
by the Christians. The Mohammedan pop
ulation is now shut up In kisamo fortress.
where six Christians have also taken re.
| fuge.
Reports from every quarter In Crete In
dictate increasing gravity in the situation.
The aohammedans of Sitia apparently have
been hard pressed by the Christians sur
rounding the town. They sent an urgent
request to the governor at Heraklon ask
ing him to send troops Immediately. The
governor ordered 500 Bashi Basouns and
a detachment of the regulars to embark,
but he rescinded the order owing to op-
position on the part of the vice oonsuls rep
resepting tile powers.
The Mohammedan population at Selce
has been be..eged for several days. 1t is
said that twenty people, including q girl.
have been killed and another girl kid
mapped The troops locked in the block
house at Alikaniu have been liberated, ac-
cording to reports received at Canea.
1t is also announced that Christians fired
upon the arsenal at suda on Thursday last
but retired when the trooN replied with
artillery. The consul at Retimo reports
that despite the setting at liberty of the
Mohammedans in the surrounding villages
the Moslems Of Retimo continue to pillage
the shops of the Christians and threaten to
burn their houses. Some of the buildings
owned by the Christians already have been
blown up by the use OF dynamite. In the
sections surrounding Retimo the Christians
are reduced to despair
The British vice consul at Heraklon has
been ordered to send all of the subjects Of
Great Britain on board the man OIL war
unless the Mohammedans actually resist
the movement The situation at Heraklion
is aggravated. Two companies OF troops
who We're sent to Kukolies have been be-
| sieged by Christians during the last ten
days and all means of commitment Ion cut
off. Should they surrender and be mas
vsacred 1t is feared that the army will
break loose from all restraint Over 200
| refugees are reported as being shut up in
the Chrysopege monastery near Suda. Their
only hope of liberation lies in intervention
by The consuls, but nothing has been done
in the matter as yet.
A dispatch to the Times from Athens
says that in spite OF obstinate official
silence 1t Is known that something is hap
pening on the Turkish frontier necessi-
fating the movement of troops in that d.
rection. The Turkish authorities ar,
aware OF the difficulty and are taking
serious military precautions against Greece
owing to the critical state of feeling
Macedonia has organized large bodies OF
| Albanian Ghegs to invade Thessaly and en-
sage in guerilla warfare as set off to the
Grecian- Macedonian movement. Whatever
truth there liz In this report. it is certain
there was an unusual commotion in mill
,ary circles in Athens yesterday.
A dispatch to the Times from Vienna says
that the powers have made representations
TO the Grecian government which are not
likely to be misunderstood at Athens, pre-
sensations of which Will not only check
Greece and prevent that country from tax.
ing the Law into it's own hands. but which
also will pacfy the Italians and prevent the
Turkish military along the Grecan from
tier.
4 dispatch from Berlin says that the
general situation inspires the greateSt up
| prohension.
The Berlin Post contains what Is be-
lievcd TO he an inspired statement that war
fciwcer Turkey and Greece appears in
eyitable in view Of recent events.