Rioting in Crete.

Manawatu Herald, 10 September 1898, Page 2

Rioting in Crete.

News from Crete states that the Mussulmans at Candia, resenting the Admirals installing the Christian

tithe collectors appointed by the autonomous administration, created a disturbance. The British troops opened fire on the rioters. The Mussulmans procured arms and attacked the soldiery, killing several. They also fired the Christian quarter of the town* j It is reported that they have killed; the British Consul (Sir Alfred BiT hotte.) The gunboat Hazard shelled the town and suppressed the outbreak. The report as to the murder' of the British Consul at Oandia has been confirmed. Telegram* from Oandia state that peac* is restored, and that there is a sufficient European force there to. qufill any further disturbances. ADuring the disturbances the British, German and United States Consulates were burned. Lieutenant HaWane, of the2ofcb Highliiccers, was killed in the mmU at Cnndia, and 50 of the company wpro wounded. O.ily 250 out of 1000 Christians e*«wp <\ .i board the warships, and it i« f-arid rbat the rest were maaaaored The Turkish troops refused to a a -i-i [be British. The Mahommedan residents are pillaging the town. The British Vice-Consul was burned in bis own house. Two companies of the Dorsetshire RegimPDt have been despatched from Milta toCandia. '