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Show THE FIGHTING ISLANDERS. Crtni KtMiUod to ltalal furllior Tors-Uh Tors-Uh Afgritnlon. Tlie Cretans are again engaged In a strugglo for liberty.' Tho mountaineer who occupy tho central portion of the KliliMH CHKISTOrxin.AKI. island declare that they have Iteen driTen to dtwpcratiun by the Turks, who denies tj re-establish the unlimited Moslem Pile of the last century. The insurrection has raisel a very embarrassing queetlon for the great jxiwers of Eurojie. They cannot contest thn right of the Turkish government to suppn-a a relHtllion, and they think that in rase of their interference interfer-ence tho sultan might, as on a former occasion, appeal to Russia for help and thus jrreelpitate a conflict that would convulse i;uro and Asin. The Turks, nndnnbtedly, have a hard tk liefors them. Tbe Cretan revolt of 1H68 cost thitm m,im live and ."'O.COn.OoO, and even with this outlay the nominal masters mas-ters of tho Island seenred not a victory, but a con i promise. Nicolas Christodonlakl, the leader of the Cretans, is one of the not famous of ins urg'-nt chiefs. When a young man he took part in the outbreak of a quarter of a century ago, and this established hi reputation as a guerrilla captain. Hii is now 49 years of go, full of fire, and am-bit am-bit i iiia for another chance to meet the bated Moslem on the field of battle. Th titrT vtTKMisn a f Aa. irregular warfare in which the bdander engage make them as difficult to conquer con-quer as were the Apacht of th southwest. south-west. The Cretan knows every bypath and pas in his loved mountain land, and at each be may be expected to mak fierce resistance to th invader. |