CRETE, 



outers eacn 10 restore oroor 



standing the presence of th.-ii 



nine, and pflllkMWtOl on in e 



;iHtional forces were powe 



tone fort with their rifles, battered down its walls 



.rtiilrrv f 



by his officers. The Turks were compelled to 

 evacuate the position, and they would have been 

 annihilate! hail n--: the Greek officers interposed to 

 prevent a massacre. \\h-n th.- Greek artillery 

 fired on Malaxa the foreign war ships sh. lied the 



...in*. In tin* fighting the Turks lost 00 ami 

 tl.. insurgents MO men. The town of Malaxa was 

 Aftfrwani occupied ""I forces, 



Malaxa was one of t; 1 places thai t). 



ign admirals had declared in a im> . to be 



needed to maintain security and order, ami hence 

 must not be fired on; otherwise they would use 

 . . .- i T:..' other torti In- 



i in the mini 



andia. ami Hierapetra. Several Greek vessels 

 bringing volunteers and munitions from Greece 

 were seised when they attempted to run the i 

 ade. The signatory powers agreed to land 600 

 soldiers each to restore order in Crete. Not wit h- 

 their trooiis, warfai 



j tnifetfoB, The 

 powerless to preserve or- 

 der even in the coast towns. Tin- insurgents cap- 



. all the positions surrounding Canca 

 Butsunaria, which was guarded by international 

 > .ut off tin- water supply. Chris- 

 tian and Mohammedan refugees were -tar\ ing in the 

 in. MI; he end of March tin- admirals 

 ailed for. and the powers decided to send. . 

 further lattalioii of 600 men. The insurgents shut 

 up in the Akrotiri jH-ninsula U'gged food from tin- 

 war ships, luit it was denied them. When thein- 

 surgen:- attacked I/zedin fort at Suda. on March 

 Italian war ships fired upon them. Another 

 mined attack wa- mad i .March :{0; the for- 

 eign ironclads bombarded the attacking force, and 

 finally landed troops to occupy the fortress. <>n 

 tine dav tin-re was fighting at Ketim<> and 

 iieraklifin. inatwi ; le at Siiinalonira tin- 

 Turkish garrison met with a heavy lo-s. and was 

 finally compelled to flee to an island. A vessel 

 bringing ammunition Ml into the hands of the in- 

 surgents. A British war ship revictualed the forts 

 at Kisaiu iling the insurgent -. who had 

 nearly undermined the fortification-. At Kisanio 

 the war ships fired 80 shells into the camp of the in- 

 surgents because the latter fired upon boats that 

 were taking Mohammedan women and children 

 from the fort to the ships. 



\> ithdrawal of the i.n-.-k 1 1 oops. The Rus- 

 sian consul had several interviews with the in-ur- 

 gent chiefs, who emphatically refused to accept au- 



the British. Austrian, and Hi 



admirals in< t by appointment near Camliaa large 

 delegation of insurgents, but their s[>okcsmen were 

 Greeks, who declared that the Cretans would have 

 annexation or death, and wanted to turn out all 

 Turks and Moslems. Th.- Christians had already 

 taken possession <>f much Moslem property m the 

 country districts, and hoped, under Greek au- 

 to acquire the property of th. M..-lems in the towns 

 also. The foreign occupation at ( 'anea embraced an 

 areaof 25 square miles, within which limit food was 

 furnished to all inhabitants in need of it. The 

 was guarded by 10 companies of Turk) 

 and 8 companies of irregulars, whi< h u 

 forced from the city whenever engaged. The for- 

 eign admirals wen- strongly opposed to the with- 

 drawal of tiM Turkish troops, of whose behavior they 

 spoke in the hiche*t t-rm-. Admiral Harris pi 

 them as second to no Bnropean troops in discipline; 

 fr.r if they were withdrawn, the Kurofwari troops 

 would ha veto act as supports for the Bashi-baxouJa, 

 liable to be drawn into their skirmishes, and if tin- 

 latter were also withdrawn then the int. m.; 



forces would l>e likely to come into conflict with 

 the H and would have besides to re-train 



and control the large Moslem population behind 

 them. a> well as the disbanded irregulars. 



n the in- 

 Ml- at Akrotiri and a party of -KK) Ba-hi-ba- 

 Xollks that had stolen out of Cain a. and the lalt.-r. 

 only a part of th.-m bein- armed, lost 5(1 dead and 

 wounded, on their return they were di-armed by 

 the international troop-. The in-ur.ueiits had re- 

 fr-'in Akrotiri into t he 



interior of the i-land. and the purpuse of the 1 . 

 baxouk-. mo-t ..f whom . _;ees from 



dano and Selino that had obtained .inn- surrejiti- 

 tiously, was to block their passage. The same class 

 continued th,- i-n\ n a. Then- 



was little food m the i-land excei.t in the camp of 

 C..1. Ya-so- % \\|,. -nth-. 



The Mohammedans on the seacoast -nil. [.: more 

 severi'ly than theChri-t ian- in theint- ami i > 



bound for Crete with provisions for the foreiu'ii lle.-t 

 and the Turkish troops were boarded at the- PinMU 

 by armed ( 'retain and their friend-, who threw the 



u-d. 



Whan war was begun in The-saly the . 

 eminent sent a note to the p<.w-r- prote-t in^ t hat. 

 ma-much as Greece and Turk- con- 



tinuance of tlu: blockade was a violation of neu- 

 trality. T ! the i-land on April 1!> 

 issued a manife-to notifying the (i 



within fifteen days, in accordance with the 

 orders of the Porte banishing all (Jreeks from otto- 

 man territory. Tin- environ- of Heraklion were m 

 April the scene of almost daily lighting between the 

 small i, r arn-on of Turkish troop- aii<l ."JHM in-ur- 

 L r ' lit s, with Greek troop- amon^ them. When r.-- 

 rtook the Greek army in The alv the 

 Hellenic Government would gladly have wit hd'rawn 

 from the Cretan adventure if Col. Vas^.s and others 

 of the ablest officers of the army who were -hut up 

 in Crete could have been at home. In the early 

 part (.f May Col. \"a-so- made a re.|iie-t of the for- 

 .idmirals that the sea and coast blockade In- 

 sufficiently relaxed to enable him to embark his 

 troops safely. This the admiral* refu-ed to do. 

 They offered to allow J he ( Jreek t ronps ' 



supplies of food, a concession that they had a 

 1 to the insurgents. Soon afterward the G 



'iiment ajij. reached the powers with a \ > 

 obtaining their mediation. 'I he reprcsentati. 

 the power- advised the Hellenic Government to 

 withdraw the Greek force- from ( 'Me a- an induce- 

 ment \<> the powers to offer their mediation, 

 cording to this advice the Hellenic Government 

 asked for the free passage of a ship to take the 

 troops back to the 1': . Ya o- had already 



departed secretly, and Otb kllowed to 



in small parties before the permission was 

 formally. The Cretans did not appear di-maye. I by 

 the loss (.f C..1. \'a o- and the Greek volm,' 



utinued tr> attack tho Turkish outposts. The 

 international troops, by arrangement with Col. 

 sos, had some time before considerably extended 

 their zone of occupation. The six powers made on 

 May 11 the olTer of mediation with a view to obtain 

 an armistice and smooth the difficult ie- existing 

 '<< and Turkey, impo-ing the condit ion 

 that the Hellenic Government should declare that 

 it would proceed to recall its troops f r , )m Crete. 

 adhere formally to autonomy for Crete, and accent 

 rvedly the counsel that the power- should 

 give in the "interest of peace. 'I'll- veni- 



meiit accepted all these condition-. The trooj 

 ran to leave Cr.-te immediately on three (irc'-k 

 steamers which had l>een captured during the block- 

 ade and were released for the purpose of takiii 

 troops back to Greece. Col. Staikos, the Greek com- 



