That he, the Sultan, shall have the power to appoint whom he
pleases as governor of Crete, and shall further be empowered to form a
body of guards, half soldiers and half police, who shall have the duty
of preserving the peace of Crete.
All this means, in so many words, that instead of a Christian governor,
Home Rule, and the payment of a yearly tribute to the Turks, the Cretans
shall go back to the old state they were in before Greece interposed.
We shall probably hear a good deal more about Crete before the winter is
over.
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England's conduct in regard to the seal question looks as if she had
been playing the old child's game of asking her pinkie finger before she
could give us a decided answer.
From Lord Salisbury's conduct in the affair, one would suppose that he
had shut himself up in his study, and consulted the oracle:
"Pray, my dear little finger, pray tell me whether I shall join the seal
conference or no? Yes--no--yes--no": and so on.
He has said "yes" and "no" so many times that it looks as though he had
just come round to the pinkie again at "yes.
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