The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-13
Capture Knania and Pursue the Turks
to Cipria.
Eight Hundred Turkish Troops in the
Besieged Garrison at BaItimO Cut
Their Way Through the Greek In
surgents, With Loss of Thirty
rlen Killed.

BaltinO, numbering about $40 men,
which was beseiged by the Greek in
surgents, has cut it's way through the
Greeks with a loss of thirty men kill
ed.
1t is added that the fighting was so
stubborn that it was only at the fourth
attempt that the Turks were able to
issue from their barracks.
The insurgents continue to march
into Macedonia and have captured the
town of Krania. They pursued the
Turks close to Cipria, which is only
two hours distant. from Grevena.
Throughout the operations which
have hitherto been so successful for the
insurgents the latter only lost three
chiefs killed and four men wounded,
according to a special dispatch.
1t is reported that a Turkish frontier
detachment yesterday fired on and kill
ed Greek private and peasant carry
ing dispatches to Calcolivri.
The plan of the insurgents was to
occupy Baltino on the frontier of Ma
cedonia in order to prevent the Turks
from taking up more advanced posi-
ton.
Directly the Greeks crossed the from
tier their leaders issued a proclama-
ton calling upon the MacedOnians and
Epirotes to rise for freedom. There is
an uncOnfirmed rumor here at this hour
that the insurgents are continuing their
advance unchecked by the Turks.
twenty-five of the Italian volunteers
have returned here, being unable to
stand the cold weather
GREECE WANTS WAR.
NEW YORK, April ia dispatch
to the Herald from ST. Petersburg
says:
The Greeks are now seeking every
way of avoiding responsibility, owing
to the wording of the note handed to
them by the Powers. Regarding the
attitude of Europe vis-a-vis attaches
state the aggressors were the Alban-
ians, who numbered $500.
Judging from the words of leading
Greek authority here the Greeks want
war at any price, and they will not
stop either to consider the cost, the
sacrifices or the most dire results it
must entail. He says the Greeks have
10000 troops which which, he holds,
they can defeat the Turks, who. he
knows, have not more than 10000
troops.
AT the Turkish Embassy they have
had no news for five days. The gen.
eral opinion here is that if this is the
commencement of war it is good
thing, as the matter will be promptly
settled by the Turks.
One of the signs of the moment is
that the Greek question is be-
l,ri,, m ~,
commercial than in diplomatic circles,
for Greece ruined and without credit is
the problem of the future upon which
financiers are specializing.
NJ. Petereerhoff, correspondent of the
Russian Gazette" who has just re-
turned from Greece, says that the
whole affair of the war preparations
with their accompanying scenes struck
him as an opera bouffe performance,
the soldiers seeming to have no idea
of discipline or of the respect due their
officers.
In the st. Petersburg ''Viedomist''
the political writer, NJ. Goldsterm says
in reference to the strong Russian pol
icy which has saved the situation ev-
erywhere:
There are traditions, but woe be to
those countries where the realization
of those traditions is carried out in the
streets yclept public opinions. The
speech of the international political
public opinion is a weathercock and not
always in the direction of good sense.
1t brings help to none to complicate
matters.
|. Italy, France and Austria have been
DO lie hair xxril1S
land Intentionally held out only
through doggedness. Only the Rus
sian note can permit European dipIo-
macy to overcome the sinister forces
which are working in the East, where
| antagonism of races and religion in
terests are often artifcially excited by
seekers of tumult'
MERE FRONTIER INCIDENTS.
ROME, April Pit is semi officially
announced that Turkey and Greece
have each addressed to the Powers
statements of pacific character in re-
gard to the encounters on the Mace
DOMAIN frontier. which are described as
| Mere frontier Incidents
Germany, Russia and Austria it is
| further announced, have approved of
the arrangements of the Admirals in
command of the foreign fleets in Cretan
waters for the blockade of the Piraeus
ITALY'S POLICY APPROVED.
| ROME, April 12.-The Chamber of
Deputies to-day by a vote of 27S to
| 213 adopted a resolution expressing
| confidence in the Government
| This was the fourth day of the de-
| bate of the Chamber of Deputies on the
policy of the Government toward Crete
and Greece and the house was
| thronged. Baron Sonnini, who was
| Minister of Finance during the Crispi
! Cabinet, commended the action of the
concert of Powers, the utility and i'm
| portance of which he claimed was full
| ly recognized.
| The Marquis Di Rudini, the Premier
and Minister of the Interior. during the
course of long speech. pointed out
that a vote approving of the policy OF
the Government would not signify op-
position to Greece but would be in
| favor of the liberty, justice and the
balance of power in the Mediterranean
/ thus tending to promote the peace of
| the world. The Government. he con-
tinued, is solicitous Of the true inter-