The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-04-05
ULTIMATUM OF THE PORTE
THE SITUATION IN TIE EAST POR-
TENDS A WAR.


TENDS A WAR.
Turkey Demands That Greece Remove
Her Troops from Crete Greece Said to be
in Possession of the Note-Foreign Ann
bassadors Formulate Plan for Cretan
Autonomy.
Constantinople, April 4,-The porte
has prepared a note to Greece demand
ing the withdrawal of the Greek troops
in Crete. The note declares that in the
event of the demand being refused the
porte will hold Greece answerable. 1t
is stated that the note has already been
presented to the government at Ath-
ems.
London, April A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Copenhagen says that
conference held by the royal family
resulted in a resolve to uphold the pres
ent dynasty of Greece. The doWager
czarina, who is daughter of the king
of Denmark and as sister of the king
George of Greece, is at present in Co
penhagen, where she will remain until
the end of the month to assist with her
counsel.
A special cipher telegraph service has
been established between st. Peters,
burg and Copenhagen. 1t is the gen.
eral conviction that the dowager car
ina has succeeded in inducing the czar
to support the King of Greece so far as
such support is consonant with Rus
sia's interests.
If this statement is authentic it will
arouse sensation.
London, April 4.-Various reports con-
cur that a blockade of Greece will be
established Immediately, the Chroni
cle's Athens correspondent telegraphing
that it has again been adjourned for
several days, while M. Hanotaux, the
French foreign minister, produces a
mysterious plan. The dispatch adds
that a diplomat assured King George
prospect of a blockade and he begged
his majesty not to take action under the
belief that blockade was imminent
Nobody has the slightest idea of what
the hitch is in the so-called concert
concerning the blockade.
Athens, April An. Zaimis, president
of the boule the single Greek legisla-
tive body, recently sent to Mr.. Glad
stone a message of gratitude for the
stand he has taken in behalf Of Greece
and the Cretan Christians. In his mes
sage M. Zaimis said
"AI your glorious life has been full
of combats for justice and liberty. Now
that the Hellenic nation has risen to
fight in favor of Crete which is be-
dewed with blood, you come to renew
the rights of an oppressed race"
Mr.. Gladstone's reply was made pub
lie to-day. He says:
My tract was not written to confer
a favor on Greece but to discharge a
solemn duty contributing to renew my
country from any risk of dishonor
which would have been incurred by
placing ourselves in antagonism to the
high interests of justice and freedom.
My opinion Is that If the Greeks con-
tinue discreet and the Cretans firm
their reasonable self assertion will
carry the day, and the powers, If they
should be so unwise to take a hostile
part, be both discredited and defeated"
Constantinople April At is report
ed that disorders have occurred in Kur-
pi, in the Vilayet of Bitlis. 1t is stated
that several Armenians were killed, but
no further details are given.
The political outlook is so decidedly
uncertain that business in Constantine
pie has come to standstill. A general
feeling of uneasiness prevails and as a
result prices at the bourse display a
downward tendency. 1t local stocks
yesterday there was a heavy decline all
around.
The diplomats here have telegraphed
to their respective governments the
the broad lines of the scheme of auton-
omy for Crete upon which they have
agreed The details of the plan have
not been divulged and is is probable
that nothing definite concerning them
will be known until the powers pass up
on the scheme.
The ambassadors have called the at
tention of the porte to the fears that
are entertained that there will be a
massacre of Armenans in Hadjin in
Anatolia, which place escaped the fury
of the Turks and Kurds during the pre-
vious massacre. When the several dis
| tricts of Anatolia were being ravaged
by the Turks some months ago Mr.. Ter
rill, the American minister, warned the
porte that the United States would de-
mand the head of the governor of the
Hadjin district if any harm should be-
fall the three American lady mission
aries there.
Canea, April 4.-The work of disarm-
ing the Bashi Bazouks who took part
in the sortie Saturday against the
Christians, who were retiring from the
peninsula of Akrotiri, began to-day. A
number of gendarmes went to the vii
1age of Kalieni, where many of the
Turkish irregular troops are living and
demanded the surrender of their arms
The Bashi Bazouks We're defiant and
boldly refused to give up their weapons
AS a result the European troops were
summoned and they surrounded the viii
lage. Parleying with the Bashin Ba-
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