Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — INSURRECTION AT CRETE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INSURRECTION AT CRETE.

The Unspeakable Turk Displays His Usual Atrocity. The powers having naval and commercial interests ih the Mediterranean are just now anxiously watching the struggle which has again recommenced between the Greek population of Crete or Candin, which trtt’er Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, is the largest island in that sea, and the forces of its sovereign, the sultan of Turkey. The prospects pf political independence, or, fa tiler, of eventual annexation to the kingdom of Greece, do not seem hopeful for the Greeks. The Turkish soldiery, by all accounts, have displayed in this island a remarkable decline of their old military quality, behaving like brigands, in cruel orgies of massacre, outrage and plunder. The ne>v-

ly appointed governor, Abdullah Pasha, has failed hitherto, if he has seriously endeavored, to check these savage practices, and live European consuls at Canea have jointly protested against them. It is admitted, on the other hand, that murders and other outrages have been perpetrated by some bands of Greek insurgents belonging to a rude highland race, and not subject to any discipline or nyUtary command. The state of affairs is very different in some districts, and at one end or side of the island from that which prevails at another, in the town of Cnnea, d well frequented port on the north coast, a Mussulman mob, supported by the Turkish soldiers, rioted and committed great excesses, killing the “kavasses” or chief guards of the Russian and Greek consuls.

HARBOR OF CANEA, CRETE.