GREECE AND TURKEY.
If we may form an opinion on the subject from the cablegrams we pub lish to-day, the situation in the Mediterranean is becoming more difficult day by day. Ifc is strange that the Admirals of the fleets should have found it necessary to appjy tv the Powers for reinforcements at Crete, and stranger still that, Colonel Vassos has declared -oyaa. war against the I'owers who are practically endeavouring to support the Greek mtioa ot
which Vassos is the subject. Thirty thousand Greek soldiers are posted at a point near Larissa, while the Turks have one hundred and fifty thousand near the Greek frontier. The Greeks are enthusiastic, while the Turks are said to be well drilled, and a part of their force consists of a strong body of cavalry (8000) and two hundred Krupp guns manned by experienced artillery men. In response to the invitation of the Admirals, England has sent a detachment of six hundred officers and men of the Welsh Fusileers to help the Seaforth Highlanders now stationed in Crete. England is evidently not well satisfied with tho state of affairs in South Africa and has ordered the battle ships helonging to the Cape station to make ready to proceed to sea. One thing to be said is that the English press have not indicated in any way that they consider a general war imminent.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 230, 1 April 1897, Page 2
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