Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-02-13
THE DANGER IN CRETE
THE FLEET OF GREECE WANTS TO
BOMBARD TURKISH TOWNS.
Long Cherished Desire to Annex the
Island at the Bottom OF
the Agitation.

1 London, Feb. 9.-The Athens correspond
ent of the Times in a dispatch announces
that he is empowered to state that there
| is full accord between the king and cab
met upon the subject of Cretan policy.
The correspondent for the Times at
Athens also asserts that during the up
roarlouS debate in the legislative cham
Der yesterday afternoon ana evening
(Tuesday) the opposition urged the gov
ernment to take a stand on the matter Of
the union of Greece with Crete at all
costs.
A dispatch to the Times from Paris says
it was rumored on the bourse that the
commander of the Grecian fleet was with
difficulty dissuaded from bombarding the
Turkish towns on the island of Crete. No
confirmation of this rumor is obtained
and it is regarded as impossible, but it
indicates the sensitveness existing con-
cerning matters in Turkey, Greece and
Crete.
Cruiser Starts for RetimO.
Athens Feb. 9.-The Greek cruiser Hi
acula has started for Retimo. where
Mussumans occupied the Christian quar-
ters and are piliaging stores and houses.
Three thousand Turkish troops have been
concentrated at SaiOnica in readiness to
embark for Crete. but the navigation
company refuses to convey them to their
destination until the money for their pas
sage is paid. 1t is announced here that ft
decree will be issued ordering the entire
Greek fleet to be made ready for service
at sea.
Young Turks Dangerous.
Constantinople, Feb. 9.-AnXiety is felt
here at the danger of an outbreak OF
young Turks. The fall of prices on the
Galata bourse continues. Official embas-
sizes Sunday received copies of manifes
to from the young Turks party declaring
that they had decided to have recourse TO
force. Numbers of fly sheets denouncing
the present government have been found
the streets of Stamboul. The Russian
embassy has written to the porte pointing
out the necessity of preventing an out
break which may imperil the integrity of
Turkey. This action the Russian embas
sy has impressed on diplomatic circles
especially in view of the naval prepara-
tions al Odessa.
Dreibund and Russia Oppose.
London, Feb. ga dispatch from Co
logne, Germany, says that the kolnsche
Zeitung Cologne Gazette) declares the at
tempt of Greece to annex Crete will not
succeed. France, it is asserted, may ia
vor the design, but the dreibUnd and Rus
sia have agreed to maintain the statu
quo.
st. Petersburg Bourse Pssnicky.
Times from st. Petersburg says: A panic
occurred on the bourse yesterday (Tues-
day. The collapse was due, it is said, to
rumors of troubles in Crete and at
Constantinople and to the spread of the
bubonic plague. Petroleum shares have
fallen especially low because of fears that
the plague will reach the Caucasus
gions.
England on the Alert.
London, Feb. 10. = A dispatch to the
Standard from Athens says that an Eng
Iish nan-of-war has arrived at Sitia, a
town at the eastern extremity of Crete on
the northern coast, so miles east of Can
da, for the purpose of protecting Chris
tians who have been attacked by MusSul-
mans.
Fleet Preparing to Sail.
Athens, Feb. 9.-The Official Gazette to-
day publishes a royal decree commission
ing all available warships in Greece and
the immediate dispat atch of addi-
tiOna ships to Crete.
Fight at Canea.
Athens, Feb 9.-AdviceS from Cane:l
this afternoon say that Turkish troops
and armed Mussulmans had fight with
Christians in the environs of Canea. Fiji
teen soldiers were killed.