Show RUSSIAS ATTITUDE Has Ordered Greece tt Recall Her Troops I TREE DAYS ARE GIVEN ATTITUDE RESENTED BY ENG I ATTIUE LAND FACE AND ITALY I Assented t by Germany and Austria The Fleets of the Powers Will I Have to Make Their Appearance Before the King of the Hellenes I Will Yield Alarming Rumors Are in Circulation I I Berlin Feb 27The news agency dispatch from St Petersburg published in the London and continental newspapers news-papers yesterday purporting to describe de-scribe Russias attitude on the Cretan question and asserting that the Russian Rus-sian government had ordered Greece to recall her troops within three days is on good authority though its publication cation has been belated A similar proposal issued by the St Petersburg government reached the foreign offie of Germany and the other powers early in the week and it is now said upon good authority that it met with remonstrance re-monstrance from England France and Italy but was assented to by Germany and Austria This proposal of Russian diplomacy I and the real importance of the communication lies in the fact that I Russia is determined upon a policy of speedy and decisive coercion of Greece by force of arms and that the northern empire is ready to apply such measures with or without the coopera tion of the other powers The actual state of the case is that Russia agreed to delay action for three days only upon the strength of representations from the British and French governments govern-ments that time ought to be accorded the Greek government in which to consider con-sider its position The impetuous initiative in-itiative taken by Russia has certainly accelerated the negotiations among the powers which are now turning mainly toward a procedure of coercion coercon Official advices which have been received re-ceived from Athens have caused the conviction that the fleets of the powers must make their appearance in the Piraeus before the king of the Hellenes will yield to the will of the concord governments and that his submission will certainlv be accompanied by the resignation of the Greek cabinet and probably by the abdication of the Greek monarch A semiofficial article in the Pesther Lloyd conveys the idea that the AustroHungarian government I govern-ment though now following the lead of Russia and Germany is very much averse to Russias style of initiative I as affirming her right to be regarded as the paramount power in the Balkans Bal-kans In official circles in Berlin however how-ever Russias haste in the matter is attributed to the movements which have been made by Servia and Bulgaria Bul-garia toward an offensive alliance against Turkey Some Alarming Rumors London Feb 7The Observer will I tomorrow publish a dispatch from I Paris saying that alarming rumors are in circulation there I these I rumors are true they show that the situation is extremely grave Two of I the rumors receive credit One of them concerns Russias attitude toward thepolicy of Greece an attitude which apparently nothing will mitigate The other is to the effect that the drago man attached to the Russian embassy at Constantinople notified the porte I that Russia will occupy Armenia i I i hostilities break out hostites I Moslems and Christians Meet Canea Feb 7A sharp fight took place yesterday between Moslems and Christians near Betimo The Moslems were repulsed with small loss Crown Alone Entitled to Act Athens Feb 27In view of the fact that the chamber has not been in session ses-sion for some days past the leaders of the opposition met today and signed a protest which was presented to the king The protest declares that the crown is entitled to act alone in such cases as the present and if it does not the opposition cannot be answerable answer-able for the situation Vassos Will Aid Them Canea Feb 27 Colonel Vassos the commander of the Greek army of occupation oc-cupation ha promised to use his influence in-fluence with the insurgents at Selino to obtain the release of the Moslems who are beselged there The result is I awaited with anxiety as the continued contnued confinement of the Moslems is causing dread of reprisals |