GREECE. 



ing of memories of the campaign caused a recru- 

 descence of the hostility to the Crown Prince and 

 the dynasty that was shown after the defeat of the 

 army, and this feeling was intensified when the 

 Government accepted foreign financial control. An 

 employee of the mayoralty at Athens named Kar- 

 ditzis, who consorted with antidynastic conspira- 

 tors at Patras, got a young Macedonian of the name 

 of Kyriakos, who had fought with him in Crete, to 

 join in a plot to murder the King. When King 

 George was driving with Princess Marie on Feb. 26, 

 along the seacoast from Phalerum back to Athens, 

 the two, with Gras rifles, fired from alongside the 

 road at the horses, and then Karditzis fired five 

 times at the King, who stood up to shield his daugh- 

 ter and brandished his stick at the assassins, who 

 hit the horses and the footman and struck the car- 

 riage several times, but missed the King. The two 

 conspirators were condemned to death. The mem- 

 bers of the secret society were arrested. It had 

 been formed after the retreat from Larissa for the 

 purpose of continuing the war, and assumed later 

 its revolutionary and antidynastic character. 



The Chamber met on March 3, and the bill of 



antrol was passed through all its stages without 



inch debate, after which the bill for the guaran- 



ed loan of 170,000,000 francs was approved. A 

 measure was passed authorizing the Government to 

 retain a part of the currant crop so as to keep up 

 the export price. When the Opposition, led by M. 

 Delyannis, was about to vote the Ministry out of 

 office, Premier Zaimis on April 4 read a royal decree 

 closing the session. 



The delegates of the powers met at Paris on May 

 2 and announced the issue of the indemnity loan, 

 fixing the price at 100^. The ambassadors notified 

 the Porte that the evacuation of Thessaly must take 

 place within a month from May 6. The Turkish 

 army of occupation, numbering 80,000 men, had 

 suffered during the severe winter as much as the 

 Thessalian peasants, and the Turkish soldiers were 



:ot less eager than these to get back to their fields 

 time to sow their crops. When Russia and Eng- 



,nd urged the nomination of Prince George as 

 vernor of Crete, Edhem Pasha, commanding in 



hessaly, was directed to fortify Domoko and La- 

 rissa, and the Ottoman Government intimated an 

 intention of making the occupation permanent if 

 the powers placed a Greek prince over the Cretans, 

 and thus gave their sanction to the annexation 

 scheme. Collisions took place between the Turkish 

 troops and the peasantry in Thessaly, who refused 

 to pay taxes to the Ottoman authorities. Seyful- 

 lah Pasha in the course of these operations trans- 

 gressed the neutral zone. The Greek Government 

 distributed relief among the agricultural popu- 

 lation. 



At the suggestion of the British Government the 

 powers demanded that the evacuation should begin 

 before the first installment of the indemnity should 

 be paid, and that three zones should be evacuated 

 before the payment of the second and third install- 

 ments. A European commission supervised the 

 transfer of the country from the Turks to the 

 Greeks. The first zone was completely evacuated 

 within the ten days, and on May 18 was occupied 

 by Greek troops. The Greek Government protested, 

 after the Turco-Greek frontier delimitation com- 

 mission had concluded its work on May 31, against 

 the cession to Turkey of Malakasi and Gribovo. 

 The embassies in Constantinople upheld the de- 

 cision of the commission on all points. On account 

 of the action of the Greek Government the Turks 

 delayed the evacuation of the fourth zone, and re- 

 tained possession of the frontier posts of Gritzovali 

 ml Xezeros and also the port of Volo until the 



uestion was settled. On June 5 the Turkish 

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troops departed from Larissa, and the place was 

 occupied by Gen. Vassos, who on June 6 entered 

 Volo after Edhem Pasha had embarked with the 

 last detachment of the army of occupation. The 

 final payment of the war indemnity was made on 

 the following day. 



The International Commission of Financial Con- 

 trol was already duly installed at Athens. The 

 ministry, which had accepted office in October, 

 1897, in the face of a hostile majority, in order to 

 carry out the unavoidable measures imposed by the 

 dictates of the powers, refrained from taking any 

 definite steps during the vacation of the Chamber, 

 although the country was clamoring for reforms in 

 every department of state, and on Nov. 7, before 

 the reassembling of the Boule, the Prime Minister 

 tendered the resignation of the Cabinet to the King, 

 who accepted it, but intrusted again to M. Zaimis 

 the task of selecting a ministry. 



GUATEMALA, a republic in Central America. 

 The Congress consists of a National Assembly of 69 

 members, elected for four years by universal man- 

 hood suffrage, and a Council of State of 13 mem- 

 bers, of whom part are elected by the Assembly and 

 part are nominated by the President. The Presi- 

 dent is elected for six years by the direct vote of the 

 people, and is not re-eligible for the next succeeding 

 term. Jose Maria Reyna Barrios was inaugurated 

 President on March 15, 1892, and by a decree of the 

 National Assembly voted on Aug. 30, 1897, his 

 term was prolonged till March 15, 1902. Members 

 of the Cabinet at the beginning of 1898 were : Sec- 

 retary of War, Gen. Gregorio Solares ; Secretary of 

 Fomento, Feliciano Garcia; Secretary of Foreign 

 Affairs, J. Muiioz; Secretary of Public Instruction, 

 M. Cruz. 



Commerce and Production. The value of the 

 imports in 1896 was $11,429,200 in gold or $26,287,- 

 544 in currency; value of exports, $23,085,544 in 

 currency. The United States furnished $3,172,896 

 of the "imports ; Great Britain, $2,164,490 ; Ger- 

 many, $2,012,269. The exports of coffee were 

 valued at $22,349,623 in currency, consisting 'of 

 638,577 quintals, of which 442,681 went to Germany, 

 119,625 to the United States, and the rest to France, 

 Great Britain, and South America. 



Revolutionary Uprising 1 . On Feb. 8 President 

 Barrios was murdered by a British subject of Ger- 

 man origin named Oscar Solinger, who was pursued 

 and killed. Vice-President Morales, who was in 

 Mexico, was declared President, and Gen. Manoquin 

 attempted to seize the Government in behalf of 

 Morales, but he and his associates were killed, and Dr. 

 Manuel Estrada Cabrera, the head of the party that 

 supported the late dictator, was proclaimed Acting 

 President, and, having the army at his back, main- 

 tained his power without dispute, but not without 

 aggravating a large part of the population by meas- 

 ures as arbitrary as those of his predecessor, until 

 on July 28 a revolution was started by Gen. Jose 

 Leon Castillo, one of the leaders of the insurrection 

 of September, 1897. The presidential elections were 

 to be held in the first week of August, and it was 

 the prevailing belief that Cabrera, if elected Presi- 

 dent for the term of six years, would proclaim a 

 dictatorship and take severe measures against his 

 rivals and enemies. The first rising was immedi- 

 ately suppressed, having been anticipated by the 

 Government. Gen. Castillo took refuge in the 

 Mexican legation. Prospero Morales, who headed 

 the revolt in 1897, then took the lead and raised 

 speedily an insurgent army in the part of the 

 country which had revolted in the preceding year. 

 Several combats took place between the Government 

 troops under Gen. Barrillas and the insurgents, who 

 intrenched themselves at Olos and held the country 

 between that port and Quesaltenango. In one fight 



