Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-05
EUROPE And CRETE.
Russia Charges England With q Policy
Of YaCillatiOD.
GERMANy's POSITION DEFINED.
Not Easy to Get Govtrnor-Mobam.
medan Atrocities Aided by
Christian Admirals.

NEW YoRK, April ga dispatch TO
the Herald from St. Petersburg says:
1t begius to look very much as II
England and Russia were undertaking
the paci fication OF Crete, as they at
the moment are the only two powers
actively disposed.
The 81. Petersburg Herald today
sSyI
GAS matters appear we merely
await, the day when the telegraph
will bring US the news that England,
with one of the other powers, has re.
ceived mandate to paoiiy Crete"
1t is understood that England has
iutimated her Willingness, in the case
OF need, to cooperate with smother
mower, at the same time letting 1t be
known that the .tosk Ia distasteful
enough and undertaken only in case
OF absolute need, to prevent massacre.
Tho position OF Germany, which has
been much criticised as being the
power that urged strong action and
now fails to act up to her part, needed
definition. 1t Ia uistinctiveIy given as
thuei
German yadvocatedlin the strongest
possible terms the immediate biocksf-
ing OF Greece rs the solution in the
cause Of peace, but that was six weeks
ago, Thon neither the Greek nor the
Turkish army had been m0bilizsd,end
the position OF the King of Greece
would have been saved and the dan-
gerous public agitation stopped. For
lack OF prompiitude in action, Eng
land, France and Italy have been
deemed TO have encouraged the Greeks
and Cretuns in their lnwlessness and
brouah about the deplorable and DIS.
ofeditRble position.
That Ia the reason why Germapys
roiuteB to take part in sending troop
and TO sacri nee heraef for the result
of the weakness of others. In Russia,
England IL held TO have been the
preatest offender In her fatal iDdeci.
sion, causing we'll known parsonage
here to remark:
"England makes proposition which
we accept, ana before our reply has
time to reach London she has changed
her mind and launched some other
idea, cancelling the frat. For instance,
It was Lord SAlisbury's cnhinet which
suppestei the biockadelof VoIo. Now
they don't want 1t and 1t 10 easy to
explain the irritation which exists
here, at the present state of affairs for
which Russia 10 10 wise responsible,
but into which che Is unwillingly, yet
inevitably drawn"
Meantime, the utmost efforts are
being made TO produce an efficient
governor for Crete. Belgium has been
approached, but although she has
many competent men, none care to
risk life ami reputation among the
evil-reputed Cretan islanders whose
msssacres OF Mussulmans, women and
children, In which even priests have
taken part. as in tho village OF Zierre.
are fresh in memory.
The definite appointment OF Adj
miTsi Canevaro " the direction OF
affairs, falling the selection of another
governor, IL apprnved here but appar-
emily objected to by the French.
CHRISTIANS MAssAoRED.
NEW YORK, April ga special to
the Journal from Canua, Crete, says:
In the engagement at Akreteri seven
Christian insurgents were billed and
eighteen wounded. The Moslem
irTegujArs cut up the Christian dead in
"a horrible manner. They are now ex.
hibiting human ears and noses, and
all this was allowed togo on while the
admirals, spyglass In hand, watched
the progress OF events. On the Mos
lem tside therei were sixty killed and
wounded.
Among these were many OF the
Moslems from Kanuands who ;were
rescued from the insurgents by the
admirals who promised that they
would not be allowed TO bear arms
againet the Christians again. During
the engagement yesterday not shell
was fired against the Moslem irreRulars,
although they were attacking the
Christians, In direct opposition
to the orders OF the admirals. The
insurgents under similar circumstances