The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-03-03
GREAT WAR IMMINENT.
Ming George Of Greece Will Defy
Combined Powers.
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Bulgaria Will Join Hellenes
In Struggle.
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Troops Are Hurrying Night and Day to Borders
Of Macedonia.

Boston, March 3.-The Globe has the
following copyrighted dispatch from
ATHENS by James Creelman:
The secretaries of the six great powers
went to the foreign minister here at
6 o'clock this evening and handed him
an ultimatum requiring the Greek troops
and the fleet to withdraw from Crete
within six days.
The ultimatum announces that the
powers are in accord on two points
Crete cannot be annexed TO Greece, ana
the powers intend to endow the island
with effective autonomy.
If after six days Greece does not with
will exhaust all efforts TO compel ac-
quiescence..
/ have authority to say that King
George will refuse to comply. The
Greek minister of foreign affairs
told me an hour ago that he had replied
To all demands for the withdrawal OF
the Greek army and navy from Crete.
"Never, never, never that" VIII be the
reply of King George. Greece Will
shed her last drop Of blood to DEFEND
the Christians from further massacre.
The king says he is ready To put HIM
self at the head of his army and end the
reign of wholesale murder which mas
Mortified the whole world. All the
fleets of Europe cannot terrify him or
shake his resolution.
Ministers Of foreign powers here fully
recognize that their governments have
made a colossal blunder i'm firing on the
Christian flag and assisting Turks to
kill Cretans Italy has endeavored to
withdraw from the ENHANCEMENT.
The great war is imminent. Greek
troops are hurrying night and day to
the borders of Macedonia, where 10000
armed Christians are ready to rise
against the sultan.
Bulgaria has offered to join Greece il
the powers persist in interfering. 1t is
probable that Greece will at once de-
clare war on Turkey. and If the powers
blockade the Piraeus the Greek army
will march into Macedonia.
The Turk. realize that the Ottoman
empire is Aembling on the verge Of
doom, and Mohammedan troops are be-
ing massed in Macedonia.
King George has a united people be-
hind him, and will give the powers an
opportunity to choose between Chris
tian civilization and Islamism.
1t is a wonderful and historic specta-
Gle. The Greek consul at Canea tele-
Z graphs that the turks, In despair at the
failure of the powers to deliver $4,000
Turkish soldiers to the relief of 1900
Turkish non -combatants surrounded by
Christian insurgents at Candamo, ap-
pealed to him TO interfere and save
them. The consul agreed, but replied
that he had no Greek warship to convey
him. The Turks then asked other for
eign eonsuls to telegraph their admirals
10 give the Greek consul q man of war.
The consuls asked the Greek consul
how he intended to accomplish his mis-
sion. He explained that he would go to
dhe camp of Va,ssos, the Greek COM
Inander. and get authority sufficient to
save the people when the fort was taken.
The foreign consuls would not consent
to have their influence lessened and an
swered that the entente between Vas
SOS and the admirals would be sufficient.
Yesterday NJ Skouses, the Greek for
eign minister, telegraphed the consul to
go to the scene and do evSything in his
power TO see that the population of Can
damo is protected when the place is cap
tured.