The record-union., 1897-03-30
In Case the Government Goes to War
With Greece.
The British Admiral Telegraphs His
f1Ome Office That Colonel Vasso
Has Practically Declared War
Against the POWerS-The Grecian
Cabinet Taking Provision Against
the Contingency of Coercive
Treasures Upon the Part of the
Powers Against Greece.

LONDON, March pa dispatch to
| the Daily Mall from Larissa to-day
says that the soldiers there are being
armed with rifles and ammunition. 1t
is no common sight to see lads of u
and IA fully equipped.
The Daily Chronicles" Athens cor
respondent, Henry Norman says to-
day he has it from a reliable source
that Emperor William has offered to
the Sultan the services of General Won
GoltZ and of other German officers, if
the Turkish Government desires to
avail itself of them in the difficulty
with Greece
The Times correspondent at Rome
says to-day that the view entertained
in Italian official circles as to the out
come of the Greece-Cretan affair is
pessimistic in the extreme. Little if
any hope is expressed that a conflict
between the Greeks and the Turks can
be avoided by the Powers.
The Times publishes to-day a dis
patch from it's special correspondent at
Larissa, the headquarters of the Greek
army in Thessaly, which says that 10
900 Greeks have been stationed in 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 posi-
tions from Platamona to Elassona.
The Vale of Tempe itself is not forti-
fed as the Greek line is drawn from
ten to twenty miles further north. In
deed, the Greek force has no fortified
lines in Thessaly
The Greeks seem to consider them
selves only in the light of an invading
force, and not as a force occupying a
territory likely to be invaded. AS a
result of this, they could not stop
victorious army anywhere north of
Thermopylae. They are relying too
little upon material defenses. The
Turks have the coast roads, with
strong force from their base at Kato-
MIA. The Greek commissariat at Cos
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
INSTRUMENTATION in the Turkish ranks.
But rarely. indeed, do they find anyone
who takes a reasonable view of the
strength of the Turks or of the char
acter of the struggle.
lonica says: within a few days Ed
hem Pasha the Turkish commander on
the Greek frontier) will have under his
command 100 900 men, which will con-
stitute his army of soldiers. l am
specially struck with the rapid strides
the Turkish organization has made
within the last few years in regard to
military railways and hospitals. With
in a month 152 trains have traversed
Sa1onica- An infant system which has
stood such a strain is worthy of high
est praise. Thirty torpedoes have
been laid across the bay from Cape
Kara. The large supply of ammuni-
ton here and at Constantinople is be-
ing supplemented by German consign-
mentS"
MORE MEN ASKED FOR.
CANEA, March 29.-A mixed detach-
ment of French Italians. Russians and
Turks, under command of French
Captain, has occupied Fortress Butsu-
maria, which protects the spring sup
plying Canea with water, the insur-
gents having attempted to cut off the
water supply.
In order to insure the security of the
occupied towns, the Admirals have tele-
graphed to their respective Govern
ments to send an additional 600 men
each. They have decided to occupy
Akrotiri.
HOSTILITIES REOPENED.
ATHENS, March pa dispatch
from Retimo, Crete, says the British
and Russian officers, with strong de-
tachment of marines, arrived there to-
day to notify the insurgents of the
decision of the Powers to grant au-
tonomy to the island.
While the officers were parleying with
the insurgent chief under flag of
truce hostilities between the Turks and
Christians in the town reopened and
the detachment retired
At Cabinet meeting this morning
important resolutions We're adopted re-
lative to coercive measures upon the
part of the Powers against Greece.
CROWN PRINCE CONSTANTINE.
LARISSA, March 29-Crown Prince
Constantine, commander-in-chi of
Greece's forces in Thessaly, and wife
Princess Sophia, Prince Nicholas of
Greece and the Princess Marie of
Greece, arrived to-day. The whole gar
rison was under arms to receive the
Crown Prince and his party. The
streets were thronged with people and
gaily decorated with flags, the windows
were filled with spectators and many
ladies threw flowers in the path of the
Princess. The Crown Prince was well
coined by the superior military and civil
authorities and later Prince Constan-
tine amid the enthusiastic acclama-
tions of the crowd present, reviewed the
troops which were drawn up at the rail-
road station, while the Princess pro-
ceeded to the Cathedral, where a te
deum was sung. Thence they We at
to the palace, in front of which two
batteries of artillery and squadron OF
infantry was stationed
SITUATION MORE CRITICAL.
LONDON, March 29.-The special
correspondent of the Times" at Sa-
lonica says that everything indicates
that the SituafiOn is hacomipr ynnro