Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-26

otOChtucu WhttEs OIL tnt DAIs
Immediately on receipt OF the newe
Delysnnis anu the minister OF war
drove rapidly together to the royal
palace, where they bad an audience
with the king. What happened there
can only be guessed at, but one thing
IL significant: King George and the
cabinet have given their consent, that
they had withheld for the last four
dsys, TO the formal gazettinR OF Crown
Prince Constantine 90 commander-in-
chief Of the Greek army in Thessaly,
and the decree will be published to-
morrow.
II ie understood the crown prince
will not wait for the actual appearance
OF his commission In print, but VIII
start for the frontier at 4 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
The department Of the crown prince,
with the fun approval OF the king
and the cabinet, to take supreme
command OF the army, eau have but
one meaning. The Greek government
" determined not to accept the terms
offered by the powers for peaceful
settlement OF the Ctetan difficulties
His presence among the troops Ia GER
tain to have tue most exhilarating
effect upon them, and 1t is a notice to
Turkey that II a conflict comes the
Greek troops will enter 1t under the
leadership OF their own choice. The
step taken lie momentous.
The official Prioa denies that the
government has made any proposal to
the powers respecting Crete beyond
its original reply to the Identical notes
OF the powers.
Tho military preparations 20 on I'M
ceasingiy upon large tcsie. Con.
tracts are bsing placed abroad for
blankets and cloth for uniforms, as
well rs other equipments.
The Greek newspapers continue
with one voice TO uenOunce the pro.
posai that Prince George should
become governor OF Crete, and IL is
generally felt that the temper OF the
people is such that this solution could
not now be accepted by the govern
meni, even II the powers were wiling
to acceptit.
The news of Lord Salisbury's ex-
pecteu Interview with M. Hanoiaux
has made o great sensation, ana 1t ts
regarded ~ the only possible chance
OF arriving at settlement which will
avert war.
Already an agitation has begun for
the return OF the cBsr's donation for
the benefit OF the Cretan refugees.
More than this, tue people now de.
mand that the clergy shall cease to
pray for tho czar.
Uhoussnds OF signatures are append
ed to protest by Cretans against the
blockade, which protest runs, In part,
as f0llowt: "We Cretans, sojouIning
in Greece, protest before God anu man
against the unjust and inhumau death
which some OF the great pOtentates OF
the earth seek to Impose by famine up
on our fellow-cOuntrymen,w whose only
crime Is that they are seeking for free.
dom, as those potentates themselves
have formerly done"
1t is understood tonight that Crown
Prince Constantine VIII Start for the
Greek camp at L1rissa tomorrow
morning, leaving at 4 O'Clock in order
to avoid a popular demonstration.
VESSELS TO DE SEARCHED.
LONDON, March 25.-In the House
OF Commons today the parliamentary
secretary OF tho foreign office, MIR.
George n. CURSOR, replying to ques.
ton on the subject OF the Cretan block
ade as applicable to British anu Amer
lean vessels, eaid that both British
anu ShiEOSo
belonging to Englishmen or Amerl-
cans, or destined for the interior OF the
island of Crete, were liable to be visit-
cd, searched, and the delivery of the
cargo prohibited II, in the opinion OF
tue admirals, such delivery was cal
culated to prolong the disorders in
Crete.
Ii. d. Davies, Conservative, asked
il the United States had consented to
have their Bhils searched in Cretan
waters.
Speaker Gully declined to allow the
question without notice.
MoHAMMEDANs PROTEST.
LONDON, March GA dispatch
from COnstantinOple 20 the Times
says that yesterday (rhursiay) the
! ambassadors OF the powers received a
formal protest from the Mohsmme.
dams OF Crete against the proposal t.
to grant autonomy to the Island, and
dems nding the maintenance OF tho
| suitan's sovereignty anu the cO-opera-
tive supper. OF the powers.
The Times's correspondent at Wen.
no, dwelling upon the GilatOTy tactics
OF the powers in the Greco-C Tetsn al.
| fair, says that u 1t were intended to
blockade the porte OF Greece, they
ought to have put the scheme into OPP.
Grafton before the Greeks had time TO
lay submarine cablee, as they are be.
lieged to have done, at the entrances
to the gnlls Of Volo and Petal.
| 700 ARMENIANs REPoRTED KILLED.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 25.-The
Greek patriarch Issues AN official re.
port that there were 700 persons killed