URI 



to get the con-em of liis colleagues to a tobacco 



poh. rc-iglied ill September. 



Ill,- \iuiy and NYT. Under tin- law <( 



mi IN ei-sal I ml nl il y to ser\ ire, the war strength of 



the Greek army Is slated l.ilie 1 (M.."i(HI lilell, e\ - 



<-hiM\e of the lerrilorial army of I IH.OOO men. 

 'The in mi inn I -I ivn^t h of tlie actise army, accord- 

 ing to the military budget for 1MIO. is l.'.Hil olli- 

 iieluding civilians cm|iloyeil in the Minis- 

 89 nou-comiuissioned <Hicer>, ami 

 : -..Idler-, making in all 20,134 of all ranks, 

 with :!.?! ( hor-e* and r_'<> guns. 



The dr. , k lleet, wliicli in 1!SH!) had onlv two 

 .small ironclads, ono of 1,770 ton> armed" with 

 two Ill-tun Kru|i|i guns and four 20-pOUnden 

 and the other of 2,000 tons carrying four 0-ton 

 and two .Vton guns, is now beliewd to be equal 

 I., the Turkish, and some patriotic (i recks a rri 

 that it is superior. The "Spet/.a>," a steel armor- 

 clad of (i,(KHi tons, launched in 1889, was com- 

 pleted in the following year, and two more of 

 the same class have subsequently been built in 

 !' ranee, the la-t one leaving Cherbourg for the 

 1'incus in AugtiM. IMU. The new war ships are 

 supplemented l>y ;>(> torpedo boats, including 2 

 Nonleiifeldt sulimariiie boats. There are 2 small 

 corvette.-. ',' cruisers, and 10 gunboats of various 

 dates, besides 22 minor unprotected vessels. 

 The navy was manned in 181)0 by 3,361 officers 

 and men. recruited partly by enlistment and 

 partly by conscription among the maritime 

 population, the term of service having been 

 lengthened by the law of 1887 to two years. 



Commerce. The imports in 1889 were valued 

 at 132,653,248 drachmai, and the exports at 107,- 

 777,808 drachmai. Three eighths of the imports 

 are manufactures, and cereals form an equal pro- 

 portion, and nearly half the remainder consists 

 of pastoral and fishery products. Yet Greece is 

 an agricultural country, and raises large quanti- 

 ties of wheat and barley. There are about 3,- 

 500,000 sheep in the country, and large flocks of 

 goats, which cause more damage than benefit by 

 browsing on vegetation. Agriculture is in a very 

 backward state, but much attention is given to 

 the cultivation of the currant or Zante raisin, 

 the chief staple of the export trade. Olives, 

 grapes, tobacco, and cotton are valuable crops, 

 and the mineral exports are important. The 

 chief imports in 1889 were: grain and rice, of the 

 value of 45,283,000 drachmai ; textile manufact- 

 ure-. >;. :>7!i.ooo drachmai: animals and animal 

 products, 14.523.000 drachmai ; minerals and 

 metals, 8,714,000 drachmai; metal manufact- 

 ures, 7,679.000 drachmai; timber, G.WMi.oon 

 drachmai. The chief exports were: dried cur- 

 rants, of the value of 55,568.000 drachmai ; lead. 

 7,640,000 drachmai; zinc, 7.044,000 drachmai: 

 olive oil, 6,208.000 drachmai : animals and ani- 

 mal products, 6,043,000 drachmai : wine. 4,608,- 

 000 drachma! : figs, 2,425,000 drachmai ; timber. 

 1.800,000 drachmai; iron, 1,789,000 drachmai. 

 The currant crop has not increased with the ex- 

 tension of the cultivation, because the old vine- 

 yards have become less productive and require 

 to be renewed. The crop of 1890 is estimated at 

 145.000 tons, against 1 l:!.(MK) tons in 1889 and 

 160,000 tons in 1888. The exports to England 

 have been increased, by the reduction of the im- 

 port duty to 2-s. per hundred-weight, to two or 

 three times the quantity formerly consumed in 



that country. In 1WM) they amounted tx> 57,000 



ion-. A -imiliir n-Milt is looked for in the I 

 Slates as a eon-e.jueiice of tin- abolition of the 

 duly. In France the inijM>r!ation has been 



cheeked by the im[x>Ml ion of all e\ei-e duty of 



4 franc- on e\ery hectolitre of wine made from 

 currants, designed for the protection of French 

 wine-growers. 

 Navigation. The Greek merchant marine in 



n-l-led of Ml steam ve-se]-. of -Hi. 1^1 Ion-. 

 and f>,HOli sailing vessels, of 2V: The 



shipping entered at Greek ports in INS!) num- 

 bered .J.siii reweU, of 2.2I!.10J ton*, while 3,945 

 were cleared, of 2,124,269 tons. Of the total 

 number entered, 1.H5I. of 281,235 ton-, w.ie 

 Jjreek, while 408, of 4 1 7.:! Hi tons, wen- Hritish. 

 The carrying trade of the Levant and the Hlack 

 Sea ports is largely in the hands of the Greeks. 



Communications. The length of railroads 

 open for traffic at the end of 181)0 was 4~rt miles. 

 There were building 127 miles more, and 517 

 miles were projected. The ship canal aero-- the 

 Isthmus of Corinth has been completed for three 

 quarters of the distance, which is about 4 miles. 

 The telegraph lines, including cables, had a total 

 length in 1889 of 4,382 miles, with 5,082 miles of 

 wire. During that year 684,650 internal and 

 271,189 international messages were >cnt over 

 the wires. The receipts for 1888 were 1.130,160 

 drachmai, and the expenses 992,320 drachma?. 

 The number of letters sent through the post-of- 

 fice in 1888 was 6,344,000; of postal cards, 180,- 

 000; of newspapers, samples, and circulars, 7,- 

 706,000. The receipts were 1,193,930 drachmai, 

 and the expenses 1,198,473 drachmai. 



Anti-Semitic Outbreak. Anti-Jewish riots 

 of the kind that have occurred in Russia in re- 

 cent years broke out in the city of Corfu and 

 other places in the Ionian Islands in April and 

 May. The body of a girl child having been 

 found in the Ghetto at Corfu, a report was cir- 

 culated that it was a Christian child that the 

 Jews had murdered for the feast of the Passover. 

 The Jews believed Christians had murdered the 

 child to furnish a pretext for plunder and vio- 

 lence. It was afterward identified as the daugh- 

 ter of a well known Hebrew. On April 27 a 

 mob broke into the Jewish quarter threatening 

 to burn the Hebrews alive, and after several 

 had been beaten and stoned, the troops dispersed 

 the rioters. The shops in the Jewish quarter 

 were closed by order of the authorities, and a 

 cordon of soldiers was placed around the quar- 

 ter. On April 30 an attack on the Jewish popu- 

 lation at Zante was attempted, and the military. 

 ,in order to put a stop to the disorder, fired on 

 the mob, killing three Christians and wounding 

 a large number. The garrisons on both islands 

 were largely increased. In Corfu the Jews were 

 confined in their houses for weeks, and could 

 only obtain food with great risk and at famine 

 prices. Several died of starvation. The whole 

 trade of the place was paralyxed. The military 

 cordon was kept up, but the soldiers sympa- 

 thi/ed with the mob. On May 12 another at- 

 tack was made on the Ghetto, and two Jews 

 were killed and many injured. The Ottoman 

 Government made arrangements to succor Tur- 

 kish Jews, and gunboats were >ent by the French 

 and English Governments to protect their sub- 

 jects. Two attempts were made to set fire to 



