Abdul Hamid has also issued a protest against the trial of a number of
his subjects in the courts of Crete. He demands that they shall be sent
over to Turkish courts and tried by Turkish judges instead of by the
representatives of the powers.
He seems to be beginning his interference in Cretan matters.
* * * * *
A telegram from Christiania, Norway, states that news of Professor
Andree has just been brought from Spitzbergen.
The nature of the news is not given, but it has been brought by the crew
of a ship which was wrecked in the Arctic Seas, and who have just made
their way to Spitzbergen.
Spitzbergen is one of a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the
north of Sweden, and east of Greenland.
We may probably soon learn the fate of Andree and his brave followers.
G.H. ROSENFELD.
PRIZE CONTEST.
There were so many competitors in the prize contest recently closed that
it was impossible to decide who were the winners in time to announce
their names in last week's paper. The quotation was, "The Pen is
Mightier than the Sword," and Miss H.
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