The record-union., 1897-04-18
Causing a Great Strain Upon the Treas
urieS Of Greco and Turkey,
Costing Hundreds of Thousands a Day
to Support the Armies.
Periis i'm Prospect for British Iron and
Steel Industries = Fear Growing
That Americans Are Planning
Greater Rivalry All Along the Line,
and That the British Iron Trade
Will be the Chief Sufferer.

Will be the Chief Sufferer.
| LONDON, April II copyrighted,
1897, by the Associated Press. s).-Easter
being the great festival of the Greek
Church, it was hoped that actual hos-
1 tilities since the reported failure of the
raid of the insurgents into Macedonia.
would be postponed until next week,
and particularly as the concert of Pow
ers having failed in everything else,
succeeded beyond all hopes in holding
back Turkey from plunging into war,
While proving to Greece that Turkey is
still able to mobilize an enormous and
efficient army.
Whether this is a good omen for Eu-
rope and for civilization, it has GER
tainly had the effect of making Greece
| hesitate, but trade is at a standstill
in both countries, and the people are
already suffering. Greece is spending
about 100000 daily in the support of
her army and Turkey is probably
spending three times that amount. 1t
is impossible for this state of things to
continue much longer. and the news re-
ceived to-day from Nozores of fight
ing apparently between the regular
troops Of Greece and Turkey appears
to indicate that crisis has finally been
reached.
| Many of the Cabinet Ministers, both
of Great Britain and the various Pow
ers of Continental Europe, are spending
the Easter holidays away from the Cap
itals, and there is much comment here
at the absence from London of the Par
! liamentary Secretary for the Foreign
! Office, George n. Curzon, who is said
to be suffering from insomnia induced
| by hard work. But all the important
| business is being transacted through
the Marquis of Salisbury and the per-
manent officials of the British Foreign
Office.
The frontier dispatches during the
| past week have reported mysterious
movements of both Turkish and Greek
troops, cavalry scouting, etc, and the
| Greek fleet of the island of SkiatheS
has been ordered to be in instant read
| mess to start for Salonica, the base Of
supplies of the Turkish army, immedi
ately after the declaration of war.
| Since the arrival of the Greek Com
mander-in-Chief, the Crown Prince
Constantine, on the frontier Greek en-
issaries have secured Macedonia in an
endeavor to foment a rising of the in
habitants against Turkish rule, but it
| is reported that these agents have been
rather disappointed, and that the Ma
! tionaI League has refused to move
again without an absolute promise that
its forces will be supported by those of
the regular army. 1t is understood that
agents in London of the National
League have been active for a long
time past in exporting arms, ammuni-
ton and canned goods to Greece for the
use of the irregular forces
| A dispatch from Sebastopol says that
| four large steamers there have been
converted into armed cruisers and they
will be sent to join the fleet in the
| Dardanelles. Large quantities of
French shells and cartridges arrive by
every steamer, reaching the Bosphorus
| from Marseilles.
Among the Greek volunteers arriv-
! ing from all parts of the world eighty
yesterday arrived at Kalabaka from
| New York Rochester and Chicago.
They joined a force or irregulars.
The Roman Catholics of Greece and
Crete are trying, through their priests.
to induce the Pope to intervene be-
tween Turkey and Greece seeing that
the Powers have failed, in order to
prevent war. But it is said his holiness
| is not inclined to interfere.
The Princess of Wales, from Copen-
hagen, is making arrangements to have
nurses sent from London to the from
tier of Greece.
Sir Alfred Miner, the newly appoint
!
rica, started Off his post to-day, has
tenng his departure by fortnight ow-
ing to the gravity of the situation. 1t
is rumored that President Kruger has
| intimated his intention to grant the
franchise to the Uitlanders, after four
years residence in the Transvaal and
to grant them partial franchise at the
expiration of two years residence
The National Observer demands
| that the Government tell the country
/ plainly whether it possesses, as it seems
! to hint, proofs of German designs and
aggression in South Africa The Sat
urday Review" thinks the Government
| is ill-advised to try to bluff or force
| President Kruger, adding that it would
be better to approach him amicably
The Spectator" implores the Secretary
of State for the. Colonies, Mr.. Chamber
lain, not to be led into war with the
| Transvaal.
| A column article in the Times"
points to the perils in prospect for the
| British iron and steel industries. The
article which is based on the Duke of
| Devonshire's address at the annual
meeting of steel company at Barrow
| in n-Furness, dilates on the fact that for
the first time in the history of her iron
trade Great Britain has felt a scarcity
| of ores. and the demoralizing effect of
the imports of American pig iron have
| increased. The British output of Mig
! iron in 1896 was only obtained by i'm
porting. a million tons of hematite ore
| from Spain and other couneries
| such sources are precarious.' the
! Times adds, and in view of the
threatened exhaustion of the ores in
| the north of Spain and the probable
| increase of the cost of ores procurable
elsewhere. ii is not too much to say
| that almost every iron making firm in
Great Britain engaged in hematite pro-
duction, which is nearly half cur total
output, is anxiously concerned and ap-