TURKEY AND GREECE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 5

TURKEY AND GREECE

THREAT OP WAT?,. IF CRETAN DEPUTIES GO TO By TeleffrspU—Press ißeocifttion-OopjrlEht . .. Berlin, January ;•' J7itn • regard, to ; Crete's 'aspirafcion' to be a .^?ed.;.to' Greece, and; Turkpy^s'protest , against the 'Cretana':/ action:the' f.'Berstates: that-•Turkey': has' .occpi>y; The&aly - (Northern. : ®-; if :vthe i;.. I Cretans. cariy., •out : the' threat to Bend deputies from' Crete to the Greek I'arliament at AtbejiS,'. " Owing to this, the Powers have decided to; act.'tnefgeticaUy'in order, (o: obtain t'no.postponement, of the .elections of the. ; Cretan'deputies."'. :'V '•;!

CRETANS FORCE THE ISSUE. The election m Crete of deputies to the week; Parliament;is arserious; step,-but' recently: decided;to take' itin : force.the question of /umexatwh-, to auissue-An 3 : Weary-of; enforced delay hud siiepibiotu'. of the promises of the Powors, the Cre;®M_arevresolved to follow: the example of ..:the jServian iandv:Ttirkisli parties''■■,in v iiomifv (who elected delegates to the TurlashParliamont) and- to. elect -delegates ,to ;the , new : : Greet Parliament,. The Cretans are jiwaro'. that:' this, action'. 3 will' create?. difficulties '.;fdr.: Greece, and r for themselves, and may lead to war with Turkey,, the saniei.tinie, they do not 1, 1 , -• t]l ® ■Prt'eoHiig Powers': will, allow. Turkey., to Reassertits.Mizerainty;by torco of . arras.. Greto can command-40*000 armedraen skilled in' gueriila Warfare/It ,is twelve years sincc tho Turkish .Monies,... under Mukhtar Pa§]ia|. over-ran-Lhossaly.. : In; coimeiotion ; . ; with', the' '-' Turkish threat; to. occupy Thessaly if Helicn- ' js m .>4; V™te. is riot kept - within- bounds, it may be. reealled that- Mahinud Clievkist I'itsha, Vrho : marched;:.. his Third: -tehy froin Salonika to. Constantinople' and. overthrew.: the: reactionaries and-the bultan Abdul Haihid, is Minister for, War ,in l ,the' :new.v Ministry.; ~vThe' f'Levaht' Herald in Juno.published the report of : a - conversation' with;.: Mahmud Chevket Pasha; The .General, while'declaring that the sfcitement published by .theßerliner'. .Tageblatt" . attributing to liiin an. expresBion of his readiness to invade Greece at ,tmj .head 'of ; 200,000 men. is inacourate< expressed • hisi belief .that iitiy "diinintitidii of Turkish;'feovereignty iin -Crete'-would : ihevitably lead to war; ..