On Friday week the four protecting Powers banded to the
Cretan Government an ultimatum declaring that unless the Government undertook to admit the Moslem Deputies to the Assembly the chief Cretan ports would be occupied and the Customs seized. The Assembly met the next day and decided to give the necessary undertaking. It then adjourned for four months. Submission was, of course, much the best course the Assembly could take ; the Cretans stand to gain nothing in this case by recusancy. We trust that the Cretan question will now quietly settle itself. But we must not forget the danger from Turkish Chauvinists, who do not ardently desire a settlement, and appear only anxious to fasten a quarrel on Greece. King George is being assailed, for instance, because he urged moderation on the Cretans. The Turks could not plausibly reprobate such advice, but they do find a gn'evance in the fact that King George should have a say in the matter at all. At Constantinople the anti-Greek boycott continues.
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