hich England will struggle to overthrow the other South African
governments, and secure the control of the whole of that vast territory
for herself.

* * * * *

Matters in Greece are growing more serious. Much has happened within the
last few days.

On further consideration of the offers of the Powers, Greece refused home
rule for Crete, and declared her intention of carrying out her plan of
reunion with the island.

She boldly defied the Powers, and declared that she would yield only to
superior force.

In replying to the note from the Powers ordering her to withdraw her
troops from Crete, her Prime Minister, Delyannis, said that while Greece
would not leave Crete, there should be no fighting with the Turks unless
an attempt was made by them to carry the war into Greece itself. Unless
the Turks invade Greece, the Greek army would only remain in Crete to
protect the Christians there. If, however, the Powers made matters too
difficult for Greece in Crete, she would of course have to protect
herself.

This reply put Europe in a very difficult quandary. Greece says she is
ready to fight the whole of Europe rather than leave her brothers in
Crete in the power of the Turks.

The Powers, having threatened to make her obey if she refused to comply
with their wishes, are now aghast at the prospect of having to fight with
the heathen Turks against the Christian Greeks, or else steam back to
their respective countries, snubbed and ridiculous.

They have long been conferring together to prevent any further misrule in
Turkey, and to efface this monarchy, which is a disgrace to Europe, and
they find that, by their too hasty interference, they have put themselves
in the position of having to uphold the Turkish misrule against their own
convictions.

The Turks are so convinced that Europe is going to stand by them, that
large bodies of them are parading the streets of Canea, crying for the
blood of the Christian "dogs," as they call them, and apparently expecting
that the Powers are going to help them in a general massacre of the
Greeks.

This state of affairs is particularly dreadful, because, at the time of
the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks, not one of the European Powers
fired a shot to prevent it. All that was done was accomplished by talks
and conferences with the Ambassadors.

Now, when Greece tries to free her Christian brothers from the grasp of
the Turks, these same Power