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F r om th e B r i e f o j H i s H o l in e s s P i u s I X . to T he Tablet, J u n e 4 , 18 70.

Vol.. 89. No. 2972.

London, A pril 24, 1897.

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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r . '

/Ch ronicle o f t h e W e e k ! Page

The W a r— The Victory o f the Turks—The Death of Hafiz Pasha — A Sad Holiday Accident at Matlock— Primrose Day in London — The Prospects of Imperial Penny Postage— Teachers in Conference ■ at Swansea — Teachers and the Voluntary Schools A ct — The Independent Labour Party— More Division in the Irish Party — Churchwardens and the Clergy— The American Ambassador— Mr. Rhodes at the Cape— Private Bill Legislation-Attempted Assassination of the K in g of Italy 637 ’L e a d e r s :

The War ......................... . . 6 4 1 D r. Lueger and the New Austrian

Reichsrath.. . . . . . . 642 One Aspect o f the Anglican Over­

tures to Russia . . . . . . 643 The Mission to Menelik . . . . 643

CONTENTS.

Catholic Archbishops of Canter­

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bury From Norman Times . . 644 N o t e s . . . . _ ... . . 647 R e v ie w s :

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con'

tinued : The Street C ry o f “ Hot Cros.

Buns ” .................................. The Church in China

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A Life of Christ . . . . 649 Indian P r o b l e m s .........................650 Phroso ...................................... 651 A Salesian Settlement Destroyed by

F i r e .................................................. 651 C orrespon d e n c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . .

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News From Ireland «, ... 655 News From France . . . . 656 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

The Diana Vaughan Hoax . . 657 The Anglican Doctrine of the

Eucharist . . . . . . . . 657 The Church of England and the

Eucharist...................................... 657 Anglican O r d e r s ........................... 657

Irish Sunday Closing Bill . . . . 658 “ The Dublin Review ” . . .. 658 The Catholicity of the Church of

England . . . . . . - .6 5 9 National Union of Catholic Teachers 661 The Leeds School Board andCatholic

Industrial School Children . . 663 Diana Vaughan a Typewriter . . 664 The O ’Shea Almshouse, K ilk enny.. 664 Books of the W e e k .........................665 F rom E v e r y w h e r e ........................... 666 A p p e a l t o t h e C h a r i t a b l e . . 666 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . . 666

SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e Sc h o o l s :

The Necessitious School Boards

Bill •• . . . . . . . . 669

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N ew s from t h e Schools (Con­

tinued): The Position o f Catholic Schools

in Scotland .........................669 Manchester Board Schools and

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Denominational Teaching .. 670 The Blackburn School Board and

Free Places ........................... 670 The Voluntary Schools Acts . . 671 Backward Children in Schools

for Older Scholars . . . . 671 St. Joseph’s College, Dumfries . . 671 The Grant to Buckfast Abbey

School . . . . : . . 671 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . ... 672

Southwark

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Clifton .......................................673 L i v e r p o o l ................................673 Nottingham ......................... . . 674 Salford .......................................674 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 674 A Stonyhurst Boy in South Africa 674

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

TH E WAR. T

’ H E long patience of the Porte has given

way at last. The invasion of Crete was endured, but when thousands of

armed Greeks began to cross the frontier it was clear that an open rupture hetween the two Governments could not •be long delayed. On Saturday morning the Foreign Minister, Tewfik Pasha, paid a visit to the Ambassadors, and informed them that the frontier had been crossed during the night by fresh Greek bands, among which were stated to be a number of Greek regular troops. A council o f Ministers was summoned in the afternoon and, after long deliberation, presented a Mazbata recommending a formal rupture with Greece. About 8 p.m. an Irade appeared, ordering the recall of the Ottoman Minister from Greece the delivery of his passports to the Hellenic Minister, and the departure of all Greek merchants from Turkey within fifteen days, and directing Edhem Pasha to cross the frontier. At the same time the Porte sent a circular to the Powers alleging that regular Greek troops had taken part in the invasion, and declaring that the Greeks must accept the whole responsibility for the war. At the same time the Ottoman authorities put on record the objects with which they took up arms : “ The Imperial Government cherishes no idea of conquest against Greece, and if it is to-day under the obligation of accepting the war, finding itself in the position of legitimate defence owing to the opening o f hostilities by the Hellenes, it is merely for the protection of its most sacred rights and for its integrity. If, shortly, the Hellenic Government withdraws its troops from Crete and the frontiers, the Imperial Government, in order to give to the world a fresh proof of its pacific intention, will not fail to cease its military movements.”

— THE VICTORY

OK THE TURKS.

Fighting began at once all along the line. But the Turkish Commander as a true strategist, concentrated his forces for a decisive attack upon the Maluna Pass, which

commands the road to the plains of Thessaly, and the headquarters of the Greek army at Larissa. The struggle lasted for thirty hours, but though the fighting is picturesquely described as desperate, the nature of the ground

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prevented it from being very fatal to the troops of either side. Reuter’s correspondent reckons the loss of the attacking party at 50 killed and 150 wounded, and, as the Turks had to storm carefully prepared positions, positions which have been compared by the enthusiastic correspondent of T h e D a i l y C h r o n ic le to a second Plevna, their success must be considered to have been cheaply bought. But, though the fight was protracted, the result seems never to have been doubtful, and the Greeks were slowly driven from height to height until the whole ridge was in the hands of the invading force. The Turkish artillery seems to have been admirably served, and its fire accounts for the smallness of the loss sustained by the storming party. The fiercest of the fight was round a block-house, which the Greeks defended for six hours. Ultimately the Turks carried it at the point of the bayonet. “ The charge of the Turks was a really splendid feat of arms, the men surmounting the earthworks with loud shouts of triumph in an onrush which proved irresistible. The Greek defenders waited till the enemy was within 30 yards of them before beginning to retire. In this single assault the Turks lost 16 killed and 17 wounded. At no other point was the battle so fierce. Several times in the course of the day the Turks approached within 40 yards of the earthworks, the skirmishers only retiring when the concentrated fire of the whole garrison was directed against them.” The correspondent adds that the Greeks carried most of their dead off the field. In some cases, however, they stripped their dead comrades of their uniforms, leaving them in their shirts and drawers. It is pleasant to hear that the Turks reverently placed the bodies of their dead foes in shaded spots, and covered them up. The main body of the Greeks at once began to retreat upon Larissa.

The most dramatic incident of the fight

—THB0p EA1H over the Maluna Pass was the killing of h a f i z p a s h a . Hafiz Pasha, an old man of eighty years.

While he was advancing at the head of his

men, his orderly begged him to dismount. Hafiz replied, “ In the war with Russia I never dismounted ; why should I do so now ? ” Shortly afterwards he received a bullet in his left arm. Still he refused to withdraw out of the range of fire, and even when wounded a second time, in the right hand, he insisted upon remaining in command. The fatal wound was inflicted by a bullet which entered his mouth, and severed the spinal cord, causing instant death. It is unnecessary to consider seriously the successes alleged to have been achieved by the Greeks in the West. These