New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-07
A MORE PEACEFUL OUTLOOK
TIE POWERS AND GREECE MAY REACH
A COMPROMISE.
RIGID ATTITUDE THE GREATEST
,r,rzr, GREEK SQUADRON CRUISING
IN THE sPORADEs-wAR AcTiN-
IrY UNABATED.


ITY UNABATED.
>,orcb 6-The correspondent Of "The
rnronicle" In Athens telegrapheo a' H'.0'e"'
lao, night that there is reason 10 peie>e VIA. '''e
.s' .'.,o, ,e improv,ng. adding that more than
one Power has intimated IN an uno''e'a' way
49,. - Greece is willing to meet the Powers half
u.av II is still possible for her to escape from
a,aicrlt situation in an amcabie way
-, orres,ondent further says that it Is be-
uo,oa that Greece is willing to consent to a tenn
.r,, Turkish suzereignty over Crete on condi-
ton that the Powers will permit the Cretans,
cav tho restoration Of order. to decide their
,.,r. nv plebiscite and permit Greece to appoint
creek Governor over the island for the present.
Irder such an arrangement, II is thought Greece
r,,ght consent to withdraw her army and fleet
from Crete upon the assurance that there would
he no general massacre there.
Further the dispatch to The Chronicle says,
Germany has stood In the way Of settlement OF
the trouble by rejecting proposals which were
,,,rtually made to Greece by three European
Powers and which Greece would have accepted.
"I-nless other leadership Of the European concert
,s substituted for that Of Germany" the cor
rssnondent concludes, "a peaceful issue is i'm
possible
A dispatch from Athens to The Times says
that from the fact that the Greeks have landed
large supplies of provisions in Crete thus re-
ylctualling the army for three months. 1t would
appear that no attempt effectually to blockade
the southern coast of the island has been made
by the combined fleet.
A detachment Of the Greek army Of occupa-
ton has reached Kandamos and will try to in
duce the beseiged Moslems to surrender TO the
Greeks, and not to the insurgents. the object
being to secure to Greece the credit of having
gone into Crete upon peaceful mission
Athens. March 6-The feverish anxiety which
has characterized the movements of the military
ard naval authorities here for several days past
continues undated. Preparations to dispatch
troops and munitions OF war to Thessaly are
being hurried forward with all possible haste
The Greek barbette ships Spezia and Psara,
which sailed from the Piraeus day or two ago
under sealed orders together with the cruiser
Navarchos the corvettes Admiral Miaulis and
Basilous Georges and the gunboats Anso and
Paralos. will form a squadron which has been
ordered to cruise in the Sporades Another
squadron. composed Of eight gunboats VIII
cruise in the Gulf Of Arta.
canea. March 6.-Colonel vassos has intimated
10 the admrals of the foreign fleets that he Will
secure the liberation Of all the Mussulmans capt
ured by the insurgents on condition that the
prisoners abandon their arms ard take no fur
ther part In the fignting.
The foreign adnirals have. it is believed. taken
another step in behalf Of the Turks. and fuel
has thereby been added to the indignation OF the
Christians. Orders have been issued for the
f.ritish wsr-nirs Rodney and Camp"rdown
Russian warship and tn, French warship Chanzy
4, land 500 to escort Sir Alfred Billiott. the
British Consul here. TO Kandanos, whittier he
proceeds with the ostensible object Of fescul1g
the besieged Moslems. The Consul is on board
the Rodney. 1t is thought that the real object
in landing the foreign force is to compel the in
surgents TO raise the siege of Kandamos. II
necessary.