TURKEY AND POWERS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 January 1909, Page 7

TURKEY AND POWERS

COMPENSATION. STATE DOMAINS! AUSTRIA'S OFFER, ' A STIPULATION, (n* Mwoiuru-rttEss A6Soeu*ioK-cos«tdKir.l London, January 11. < Austria's offor to Turkey of £2,500,000 as compensation, 'for tlio taking of the old State Domains in Bosnia and Herzegovina I doponds on Turkey agreeing to submit, to i arbitration tho question whether the domains shall bo vested in tho Ottoman State oi in the two occupied provinces. ' "' ' CRETE. _ : ' GREEK GOVERNMENT. SHELTJ3BS BE- ' HIND POWERS. , ] London, January .11. As the outcome of ft movement recently started in Constantinople to boycott Grcok goods if the Groek Government reopened tho i Cretan question, a great meeting was held !in Constantinople It omphatioallv protestled against Greece raising that quititioq.

: Subsequently a deputatibn' ascertainoithaV the Greek GoVemment was ffilling! to Jei'.ye the.solution of ..the ■question of the.four.Powers.interested in the admin : . istration of Crete.o :;■::,;/ft-'-. V;:V :.; f f;. : ti.; : '.■'•■■ :•. ■;' (Recv January 1?, -9.2.0 ;;"'.'; ■',■•;'"■■:' /! ,Constelitl»to^e,;.January,-;i2 ; ,:;; . Kiatoil Pasha, Grand Vifeior, cave an assuraneo -'.to , :' yesteril^y'a' deputation: that. jiho Greek. Governmentvwa's yiUing'-ttj s, lea7e , 'tlie .solution ofvthe : .Cretan qtiestiott'-in- the hands of; the' four. Powers.^ , . '■'■'" i^ : ; .., : :„; ■ '.lyX;-,' r,;.'. : •HOW.:BRITAfN:''QAV^ In the"''Eevu(i:'des D.enS'i Sondes,"' the eminent ex-Poreign ; Minister. of Jfrhftce, H, J),??!?-, taux, writes:—'.Trlends. of .'.Turkey haVe /often; wondered trliy England; , of;all : ,'«otin.tTies, sliould: have -prppo'sed at the"'B6rlin 'Congress the oc- , oupation; by" Austria gbvina."'•■■'.'■■ '/,'..'■ '".■■:'•..!■ "■■''.'.■'■"■'■l'.-.' ';■:'; ',: ,- v .'/. ;: -?■'•■! : '. , ..- ; "LOrd-Salisbury's Teply".whet''aSß:pd why he had brought s forward the. 'proposition '. (whieli: •was :immediately,eeooiided,))y Prince .Bismarck)' was that, seeing the.proposftion must- inevitably .be macte;;ho : .th6Uglit ItAvas''betted that it ■should be made byEngland-thaq. by-Germany. ■■"And : thus the greatest prize, of ail tho'lcoinpaigu felllo Austria' wifchout' :, ftring-'a i!shbt''orspending a' penny,iin : spite of., Turkey/ in spite. o% Russia/;in spite of Italy?' , Bisiflarck nught well , repeat his: mot,'.'lie Congriis, o'est nidi.'";

.■;- : \'^v. ; ;pGßEECE'A.Np'i!cHEf6. ; .^^/■■'•. {-7 : I'Eeoßnt, AmerioairadvieSs) s(ate\taat" "it"looks' ar.if the- recognition; of- Crete as wholly,'dissevered from, Turkey' .irnro. liielyito, beM:accepted,': King George' of : Greece. Has. teen making Hhe;rounds of the European capitals.- Hβ wa3. fnvburably received; in .Berlin -"and Veinna, and'deolares that the Greek aspirations of. the Cretans will, bo. allowed b>. Gortttqnf .anil.' AAfa- '. bia..?At'last.aoco'uiits.'he was''iinfltaiyj;:whe'ro ! he had- an'. audience; with Jting '■: Viotor 'Emmanuel,, and he... asked him toTintorcede: with ,Great.,Britain-not"to: oppose the", annexation of Crete 'by Greece." I ; '■■•::.. i V'vv , '.'. :■-.■■';;... : .>:■■>'■■■ ■ Prior. ,to : the. "rebellion" against-.Turltishl'rille ••by ! tho * Cretans, .who;'declared ; "for union -.with .G:;reeco, ; 'the"'Athens'Gbveriiment"-hnd-6nown" a disposition, to" side with Turkey, against Bulgaria. :■ ~,'.';- "-;■ v'■ ■'■• i ";;:'.':i.'-. -";'.">;."'• ;'•■