and this may not be so easy to accomplish. Word comes from Athens that the
people are not at all pleased with the idea of home rule for Crete. They
want the island to be joined to Greece, and would rather fight for it,
than give it up. It is very natural that they should feel this way.

If the people of some near-by country were almost all Americans and
relations of ours, and were cruelly treated by their rulers, we would feel
just as the Greeks do. There is hardly a family in Greece which has not
suffered wrong from the Turks. It is but natural that they fight for their
brothers, the Cretans.

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In Number 14 of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, we spoke of the massacre of a
number of white men in Africa by the King of Benin. We told how the Queen
of England had ordered her soldiers to punish the African king for his
cruelty.

News has just come that the soldiers sent by England have captured Benin
City, and that its king, Drunami, is fleeing before his angry foes.

A part of the soldiers remained in Benin to hold the city, and the rest
went in pursuit of the king. They expect to take him prisoner, and if they
succeed in doing so, they will keep him a captive, to prevent any more of
his cruel outbreaks.

The English must be very glad to have Benin in their possession, because
the king used to send out parties of his warriors to lay waste all the
country round about the city. He would attack and capture the trading
parties carrying ivory to the coast, and would bring the traders back