People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — APPEAL TO RUSSIA’S CZAR. [ARTICLE]
APPEAL TO RUSSIA’S CZAR.
King George Ready to Lead the War Against Turkey. London cable. —A dispatch to tho Daily Mail from Berlin says: “The queen of Greece recently sent a message to the czar, requesting his support for the national cause of Greece. The king also wired the czar, stating that he would declare war on Turkey and himself lead the army before he would yield to European coercion. Princess Marie of Greece also telegraphed her fiance, Grand Duke George of Russia, that the action of the powers against Greece was infamous." Another dispatch to the Daily Mail from Berlin says: “The Nord Deutsche Allgem Zeitung asserts that the Turkish cabinet last week decided to declare war on Greece, but the sultan vetoed the decision on account of the finances of Turkey."
