The San Francisco call., 1897-03-11
Greece Protests Against the
Attempt to Coerce
Christians.
INTERNATIONAL LAW VIOLATED
Proposed Expulsion Of Greeks From Crete
Not Warranted -Situat ion on the
Frontier Becomes More
Serious.

ATHENS, GREECE, March 10.-The
Greek Government has instructed its rep
resentatives abroad to protest against the
expulsion of Greek subjects from Canea as
an arbitrary violation on the part OF the
powers of international law.
LONDON, ENe., March 10.-The entire
staff OF employees at the Deyonport dock
yards, numb bering 5000, has been ordered
TO work overtime for the purpose of hast
ening the completion of the fitting out of
vessels upon which they are engaged.
The order is believed to have been issued
in view of the crisis which has arisen over
the Cretan question.
The Daily Chronicle will publish dis
match to-r7o orrow from Athens saying that
Greece has so, 600 troops on the frontier
and that the Turkish and Greek outposts
are very close together In places. For in
stance, at Arta the Turks hold one end OF
a bridge and the Greeks the other. A
Greek general, recently, while inspecting
tk ) frontier, accidentally entered Turkish
territory and was captured by the Otto
man patriots, but was eventually rescued
by his troops. The situation on the from
tier, 1t is said, Is dangerous one and lit
tie would be required to set the country
z'sssE1.
The Daily News tomorrow will pub
lish a dispatch from Canea saying that
the British, French and Italian admirals
landed this afternoon and held a confer
ence with the insurgent leaders at Akro-
tiri. They expressed regret that they al
lowed the Turkish ships to fire upon the
insurgents during the previous days
fighting, believing then that the insur-
gents were the aggressors. Since then,
they said, they had learned that it was
the Bashi- Bazouks who provoked the
conflict.
In the course of the interview, the dis
patch adds. the Cretans stated that they
had not received the admiraPs warning
previous to the bonn bardment of February
2l, and that they were unaware also of
the promise OF autonomy for Crete, which
com munications were intrusted to Com
mander Repeicke of the Greek warship
HYDRA.
The News, in commenting on this dis
patch, Will suggest that the communica-
tions intrusted to Commander Reneicke
were OeIlVeTSQ III Iuc wrong quartet
The Standard tomorrow will publish a
dispatch from Canea saying that it is
runored there that the Greek army of
occupation under command of Colonel
Vassos is short of provisions, It's supplies
of eatables consisting only of biscuits and
oranges.
The dispatch also says that the admi-
rails of the foreign warships have warned
the com mander at Canea that if the Bashi-
Bazouks again provoke the insurgents to
an encounter their village will be bonn
barded by the warships, and moreover,
that no band of Bashi- Bazouks will here
after be allowed to enter Canea, or to sally
out in to the interior.
Tomorrow the Standard will publish an
Athens dispatch saying that the summon
Ing of the Greek reserves for service has
A compelled several large com mercial houses
4 to close their doors. Numbers of families
Hhave been left without supporters, and the
.Nntire social life of the country is at q
standstill.
The Times will tomorrow publish a dis
patch from Athens saying that the firing
at Hierapetra yesterday and the expulsion
OF NJ. Baraklis, the Greek Vice Consul at
Carea, has rearoused the war fever there.
The Times will also publish a dispatch
from Canea saying that the situation at
Hierapetra is one of great anxiety. The
insurgents are well supplied with guns,