The Archive · 1886

The Greek Question

Tue Intest news on the Greek question brought on by the mail is rendered of unusual interest by recent telegramm, In the five works which Lave elapsed since the date of the newspapers matters Inve been slowly working towards a It cannot be nid thnt any body hing been in n hurry over this Greek business, 1b has dragged itself on from week to week, from month to month, telr= gram repeating telegram, until. people out here at any rate had come to regard the affair as interminable, Something of the sume feeling prevailed ut home, wot only in London but in Athens itself, For the Correspondent. of the Times writing from that city on the 19th March begins his letter by saying that the course of Greek affairs continually one of the French saying, change, plus cv'at In memo The Government, he goes on say, had taken to stop doing this in the niles in which it is making its preparations for war, These nppene to be in auch backward condition that the Corres. pondent avers that the order for the mobilization of the army hind been kept back while the chiefs of the Army Corps held an inquest on the state of the army. This may or may not be true, either in whole erin part, and we are disinclined to except the statement, if for no other ranson than that Eng. lish journals of the highest class have generally been quite ignorant of the cendilion of foreign armies at critical times, and when they had any informa. tion it was wrong. Ik may be as well, however, to give the forces which the Correspondent way informed by persons who had returned from the frontier were then available on each side. Pho Turks bad éoleloued there an army

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