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| LONDON, March pa dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Larissa today says
that the soldiers there are being armed
with rifles and ammunition. 1t is no
uncommon sight TO see lads of 1S and IA
fully equipped.
The Daily Chronicles Athens corre-
| spondent, Mr. Henry Norman, says to-
| day he has 1t from reliable source that
Emperor William has offered to the sui
tan the services of Gen. Won Goltz and OF
other German officers. II the Turkish
government desires to avail itself of
them in the difficulty with Greece.
The Times correspondent at Rome
says today that the view entertained in
Italian official circles as to the outcome
of the Greece Cretan affair is pessimls-
tic in the extreme. Little, If any, hope
is expressed that conflict between the
Greeks and the Turks can be avoided by
the powers.
The Times publishes today dispatch
from its special correspondent at La
rissa. the headquarters of the Greek
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Greeks have been stationed on the east
end of the frontier with their base at
Rapsani on the hillsides north of the
vale of Tempe. From this point they are
watching the Turkish positions from
Platamona to Elassora. The vale of
Tempe itself is not fortified, as the Greek
line is drawn from ten to twenty miles
farther north.
Indeed, the Greek force has no forti-
fed lines in Thessaly The Greeks seem
to consider themselves only in the light
of an invading force and not as force
occupying a territory likely to be invad-
ed. As a result of this they could not
stop victorious army anywhere north
of Thermopylae. They are relying too
little upon material deferses.
The Turks have the coast roads with
a strong force from their base at Kato-
mia. The Greek commissariat at Co.'S
pis is slender, though the Greek officers
have all along insisted that the Turks
themselves are miserably supplied in
this particular and that there is much in
subordination in the Turkish ranks.
But rarely indeed do they find any one
who takes a reasonable view of the
strength of the Turks or OF the character
of the struggle.
THE PRINCE ARRIVES.
IlARISSA, March 29.-Crown Prince
Constantine, in-chief of
Greece's forces in Thessaly, and wife,
Princess Sophia, Prince Nicholas of
Greece and the Princess Marie OF Greece,
arrived today. Tee whole garrison was
under arms to receive the crown prince
and his party. The streets were throrg-
ed with people and gaily decorated with
flags, the windows were filled with spec
tators and many ladies threw flowers in
the path of the princess. The crown
prince was welcomed by the superior
military ard civil authorities. and later
Prince Constantine, amid the enthusi-
astic acclamations Of the crowd present,
reviewed the troops, which were drawn
up at the railroad station, while the
princesses proceeded to the cathedral,
where a TIE Deum was sung. Thence
they went to the palace, in front or
which two batteries of artillery and
souad dron of infantry were stationed.
THE CRISIS Arr IO<sSiiLt"'
LONDON, March 3o.-The special cor
respondent of the Times at Salonika
saws that everything indicates that the
situation is becoming more and more
critical. Fifty thousand men are now
encamped around Elassona and there
are 200 Krupp guns between Elassona
and Arten-
A FRENCH WARsHIP.
TOULON, March 29.-The French
cruiser Rugeaud sailed for Crete today.
BITTER DEBATE.
LONDON, March 29-In the house
of commons tonight a spirited DEBATE
followed the motion of Hon. T. j. Stan
hone. Radical, who formally proposed
reduction of the salary of the Mar
ouis of Salisbury as foreign secretary,
in order to discuss the Cretan situa-
ton. He wanted the government TO Sc
cure the immediate withdrawal of all
Turkish troops from Crete, and to op-
crate with Greece in the restoration or
order.
Mr.. Dillon, in an impassioned speech,
charged the government with taking
the side of the Turks.
Mr.. Curzon, under secretary OF for
eign affairs, said Mr.. Dillon's speech
was either an outrage or farce. II
was absolutely false, he said, that the
government had taken. or would take.
the side of the Turks. The action of the
international powers in Crete had saved
thousands of Christians from massa-
ere. It was a monstrous travesty, the
grossest perversion of the truth. to say
that the powers were siding with Tur-
key. In reply to the assertion that it
was the policy of the powers to exter-
inmate the insurgents by starvation he
said that the admirals were taking steps
to convey provisions to the inhabitants.
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