The Red Cloud chief., 1897-05-14
GREEKS GET HUMBLE.
MEDIATION ACCEPTED ON
POWERS TERMS.
Crete Will be Evacuated and the Pian Of
Autonomy for the Island Agreed to-
Turkey May be Prevented From, Impos-
ing Too severe Penalties.

LONDON, May I?.-Grcece has for
inally consented to abandon Crete, to
recognize the plan OF autonomy for the
island arranged by the powers and has
accepted the offer Of mediation Of the
powers for the settlement of the CON-
plications with Turkey. Active meas.
ures rave been taken at Constan tinople
TO stop the further advance into
Greece Of Turkish troops.
This was officially announced in thu
House of Commons to-day by Mr.. A. j.
Balfour, first lord of the treasury md
government leader. 1t was generally
held to mean hat the war between
Greece and Turkey was virtually at an
end and that Greece would be pro-
tected from ~extravagant demands by
Turkey as the victor in the conflict.
The offer OF mediation Of tho pow
crs provided that, upon q formal de-
claration by Greece that she would re.
call her troops n agree to such an
autonomous regime for Crete as tho
powers in their wisdom should deem
best and accept unreservedly the coun-
sells Of the powers, they would inter-
vene In the interests of peace. Greece,
in her reply, assentcd to all of these
conditions.
MISTAKES OF THE GREEKS.
LONDON, May l2.-The Athens cor
respondent of the Daily Chronicle
says: The real aud only cause of the
Greek retreat to Pharsala was the
h1snANy ~ cnrpannn tv,ho vxtot1,1r xIn
retreat Of the enemy for u forward
movement designed to outlank the
- Greeks, and therefore ordered a
hasty retreat. Crown Prince Con.
stantine left Larissa because he
believed the exaggerated reports
Of danger to his forces. II is q fact,
however. that on the evening of the
retreat Edlem Pnsha. despairing of
breaking the Greek lines, had ordered
his army TO retire to Elassona, while
the sultan had dispatched a special
commissioner to the Greek govern
ment The state of the Turkish army
at the moment was simply pitiful. and
terror reigned at the Yildiz Kiosk"
The Daily Mails correspondent at
Volo says: From the first day Of the
war Crown Prince Constantine. in his
capacity as chief censor, blocked all
the news which the English corre-
spondents sent from the scene OF hos.
tilities They were obliged to adopt
a plan of posting all their mes
sages to Athens, but even then
many Of these were not for
warded. The minister OF war issued
ofiicia, reports daily, which were in
c%orporated with the kilograms This
explains tho ~inaccuracy of the service
in so many cases. The crown prince,
who understands English perfe city,
altered the news SO rs to make 1t ia
vorable to himself. For instance, in n
telegram to a New York newspaper
describing the cold reception given
him at Lsrissa, the prince changed it
to enthusiastic rccsption. When the
correspondents went to him in q body
and protested vigorously, he answered
evasively. The Greek disaster vas due
primarily to Constantine himself. He
destroyed the morale of the army
by ordering the evacuation OF Kurtsi-
ovali and the retreat on Tyrnovs and
Their he ran away in a shameful fight
from Larissa, when the disgraceful
scene was witnessed of a Greek colo
mel shrieking with terror. All cursed
Constantine for DESERVING them, though
there were other reasons for the disas-
ters which followed. such as lack OF
discipline, the insufiiciency OF officers
and a general NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of
the non-combatant branches of the ser.
vice.