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Show GREEKS ON VERGE OF REVOLUTION FORMER PREMIER VENIZELOS GOES TO CRETE TO FORM SEPARATIST GOVERNMENT. Thirty Thousand Fully Armed Cretan Insurgents Are in Complete Control Con-trol of Islands and Are Spoiling for a Fight. London. According to Athens dispatches dis-patches received here, M. Venizelos will issue a manifesto to the Greek people from Canea, Island of Crete, where he probably will direct the formation for-mation of a separatist government. Besides Admiral Condcuriotis, the dispatches add, those accompanying M. Venizelos include all the members of his former cabinet, with the exception excep-tion of M. Raktavin, minister of Justice. Jus-tice. The proclamation of M. Venizelos, It is said, will invite King Constantine to put himself at the head of a national nation-al defense movement. Thirty thousand fully armed Cretan Cre-tan insurgents are in complete control of the island, according to a Reuter's Athens dispatch. Canea, Heraclion and other coast towns are in their possession. pos-session. The Greek authorities have turned over all government buildings to the leaders of the separatist movement. move-ment. Only eleven members of King Constantine's Cretan guard remain loyal, the. others being disbanded. |