The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-29
Athens Cheers for the Crown
Prince and the Army.
mUlTiTuDES AT THE PALACE.
The Ministers at Athens Draw Up q
Note. Rcaaestins the Withdrawal
of Troops From the Frontier
London Tfmcs Correspondent
saved by an American Newspaper
Nan-Famine in Crete So Terrible
as to Drive the Lcpers From the
Iaxar House.

LONDON. March eS--A dispatch 70 the
Times from Athens says that when II be-
came known on Saturday afternoon that
Crown Prince Constantine would leave
the city in the evening for the Greek
camp at TsariSSA 10 take command Of the
Greek armies IN the field. a large crowd
gathered on Constitution SQUARE adjoining
the palace
As TIE evening approached the crowd
Increas sed 10 n multitude, and the streets
adjoining were Oiled with an excited
throES. cheering. SINGING patriotic songs
and firing revolvers. The populace shout
ed. For union and war;" and checred
continually for the crown prince and the
army.
A dispatch from Athens states that tho
ministers OF the powers held conference
today and. il is stated. drew up the terms
Of a collective note 20 tae Greek govern
ment. requesting that the Greek troops
be recalled from the frontier IL IS under
stood that similar note will be present
ell 10 the porte, and that II either power
refuses its principal ports viii he block
AIDED.
The Daily Graphic understands that tho
British proposal TO Greece and Turkey
to withdraw their armies from the frontier
actually originated az Athens. The Turks
now occupy all tho spaces IN the noun
ta8ns and the best strategfeal positions
According 10 the Daily Graphic. ths
Greeks proposed a simultaneous with
drawal in order TO be able 10 capture these
positions by rush attack after making
a feinf % compliance.
A meeting OF the Cretsn delegates viii
he held shortly at Athens 20 draft a re-
ply 20 the admirals' proclamation OF au-
tCTomy.
4 dispatch 20 the Times from Canea
says that one Of the correspondents nf
that newspaper. who was present during
the fighting at MaIaxa. was captured by
the Cretanss and held as spy. He proha-
hly would have been shot. hut for the op-
perfume arrival OF an American journal-
ist and the insurgent leader Manos. an
olo oxford man. who Is at the head OF a
band OF young Cre.ans whom he person.
ally equipped. Msnos was the first to en-
ter the biockheuse when the Turks evac-
uatei e. and he prevailed on the iusur-
gents 20 spare the lives OF for1y-three Tur-
kish prisoners.
II ~ reported that che bombar.imcnt by
the international fleet on Friday wrought
serious havoc among the Christians
There Is some danger Of Mohammedan
uprising in the district on account Of the
scarcity OF food.
The Dasy Mails correspondent says to-
day shat Admiral Canaviro. commanding
the International fleet in Cretan waters.
has wired 10 the Italian government TO
send Immediately a large land force.
which Is impefatively necessary 20 cope
with the cretan ms Irgents. The aami-
raj Il is understood. asserts that condt-
tione IN the interior Of the island are 80
terrible as the result OF famine that even
fae leners are leaving the laxar house:
the inhabitants are panic stricken and
the dead lie by the roadside unburied.