The War Cloud.
THE BLOCKADE PEOCLAIMED. SERVIA HAS MOBILISED HER RESERVES NEAR FRONTIER. ! 80,000 GREEK TROOPS MASSED ON TURKISH FRONTIER. (Per Press Association.) Athens, March 22. In accordance with the decision of the Powers the blockade of Crete was proclaimed yesterday. Vasoss declares that he will resist the blockade, and has arranged for an immediate conference with the Cretan insurgents with a view to concerted measures and resistance. Two thousand Christians in Syria and Palestine are preparing to fight. The Greek Government has informed the Turkish commandant at Prevesa, on the Gulf of Arta, that the erection of forta there is contrary to the terms of the Berlin treaty. Servia has mobilised her reserves near the frontier, London, March 22. The Athens correspondent of the
Daily News wires that 80,000 Greek troops are massed on the Turkish frontier, 17,000 on the Gulf of Arta, and other bodies of troops are at Larisea and Trikala.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 222, 23 March 1897, Page 2
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154The War Cloud. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 222, 23 March 1897, Page 2
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