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Ak- and a policy of coercing the Government to go to 

 the war ith Turkey was 



UMM! partly by to land and organiie the rebellion. and wben the 

 proposals of the central powers for x* 



were vetoed b Knglaixl. I ran.. . u,i lu. 



.:. a . .-. , -. 



n. 



' 

 Military 



: 



n l.x 



especially tin- Mediterranean \ 

 Branca, ami Italy, on wboM go- 



!. \1. II till' |M 



: 'Hi.- | | t!ntn.-l 



'1 tin- nlii : 



d Kpirus had been prombed tl : 

 uv in i 'i been 



iiftiam bad 



lw\ an- 1 ful iiatriotic 



i t.niki- Ili-iniria. win- li [Of rears 

 ijj large - 



ill part of I hi- ui rl' h \va- 



1 t-laMM an 



I th 



and Anally to con. nment, 



<1 tli.- j--i.|.!.- in a C'ommon )KI|I< 

 ir w it h Tnrki-\ 



WH-. in ll 

 liim-4-If nt I In- lii-nil f the nati. nal 



wn. 



.ik. II. tan , nalSit.-ii-iy.wa4 



nrvd object of promoting an. I ; 



t* of 

 of di0eininalin^ liti-niiurr <>n the sub- 



: at various |)a 



d larire *u- wrrv ol 



oewandOovimin. nt . :r., ,. 



h wan 

 among tin 

 the leailera of the ao- 



o|teratinn. \ 



MIL- lul i-..ini- f<>r a rignrooii nttompt In 

 !:T unn^leeinrtl pr 

 rtniil and amj 



v means by pecial nuharnpt ion. The 

 ; ; taportaMi that by the end 



1 188$ neither tho Kinc MT hi- iniiuM, r> \.-ntured 

 se its designs, An irregular 



ied and equipped, in- 

 irrection was organiied in the Hellenic 



:i 1-Mi t 



,rkrv. thai in no Case would the , 



invade Greece, still IMS to eue 

 ..rtion of .r..k territory or exact an indeav 



.t. nh ii 



A. form tli 

 to hand <^ * I 



Kuso.Turki*J> War and 



..-! ::;." I 1 



:..- that *ae*. 



KnglaiMi virtually promt*. 



At toon M t he j . ary . 1 1 



f 



to ai 

 Turk 







. 



out the luairves. 



. . -..-.. 



"urks began to construct f- n.: 

 nnlrary to the stipulations of the H- 



<ircece protested to the powers. The 

 fleet waa used to transport troops to the fr. 



imiillaneously i 



to strengthen the garrison* in the fr 

 A Turkish army mrps va stationed at Saloaica. 



iriacrufttrd thr fron- 



Macedonians stirmii-heil with the Turkish rWiYs. 



f War. whose advice 



te had been rejected 



take an active command 



in ti.- arm T, and on March 8 M. Metaias was ap- 



: i his stead. The remaining classti of I he 



rves were ca 1 ! : h was calculated 



to give a total force of 121..'V*> men. including 25.000 



in thr landing army. '1 : ^r 'hips sailed 



in tuo M.im.lrons to crui^ f Arts and 



among the islands. The torpedo fleet, under the 



ince Georgios, was ordered to cruise 



between Milo and ' >e Teasels in (ret an 



waters departed when 1 1..- t ' <-kadc of the | 



was put n ii March 16. A Turkish trans- 



d by a revenue cutter while land* 



ops and stores at Ik.iiro. The Turkish 



of Precaution concentrated in Monastir was ^ 



Mar the command of Kdhem Pasha, who 



pleted nr- aid enable him to 



he frontier within A 



: batterir* of artillery and 10 



M|uadrons of ravairy. Hicciotti (iantl*di raised 



8 re^ nine 



. army, and l.i k -l%h and other foreigners 



-rs flocked 



ulr on Man h 16 to p rmit the cnn.lln 

 -* ami the formation of a f 

 legion. Two bamU of Thc***hi I.OOO 



and the other of 800 men. from 



I .aiwa an the Greek 



I massing on the line ithm right 

 kisn blocknoosea, Tne Porte complained 

 t>r that Greek regulars in 



these Unit*. The fir 



Takia and the ad>anced post 

 >larrh tS. The 



Oat in in Kmperor proposed to the powers a Joint 

 blockade of t!, Pirat^aml Vo|o. but <;rrat Hntain 

 and France declined to take part. The Turkish 

 armv. .V5.000 strong; moved up to the border, with 

 uarters at Klassona, On March 30 the Crown 



