The correspondent who sent the news, having managed to escape the notice
of the Turkish officials, claims to have made a personal examination of
the state of affairs in the city of Larissa.

He found that all the houses, except those inhabited by Mohammedans, had
been stripped of their contents, and he was informed on the best
authority that many car-loads of plunder had been sent by the soldiers
to the Turkish town of Elassonna.

In Turnavo, another city of Thessaly, the same condition of affairs
exists as in Larissa. Here, however, the inhabitants had some warning of
the coming of the Turks, and had time to remove many of their valuables
before the enemy arrived.

The condition of Thessaly is desperate. The harvests are rotting in the
fields. The peasants dare not attempt to gather them in, for fear of the
Turkish soldiers, who, under pretence of seeking for arms, beat them
unmercifully until they hand over what money or valuables they have.

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The governorship of Crete has been offered to Monsieur Droz, the
ex-president of Switzerland.

It is said that he has accepted on condition that he is first to be
given an opportunity of seeing how he can get along with the Cretans.

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The latest report from Cuba is that General Gomez has been wounded, and