The Sultan of Turkey has once more been heard from on the subject of
Crete.

This time he is objecting to the commissioner appointed by the Powers to
take charge of Cretan affairs.

It is said that the German Government is in sympathy with the Sultan in
this matter, and has also signified its disapproval of the commissioner.

The uneasy feeling in regard to Turkey is increasing, and trouble is
expected before the winter is over.

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The news of Andrée brought by the whalers turns out to be somewhat
indefinite.

They say that they sighted an object which they are quite sure was the
great balloon.

They state further that they heard strange cries coming across the
ice-fields, which sounded to them like human voices, and they believe
that Andrée and his party are stranded somewhere on an ice-floe.

Captain Sverdrup, who commanded the _Fram_, in which Dr. Nansen made his
famous Arctic voyage, says that it is his belief that the sounds heard
were made by birds or else by the packing of the ice.

In the hope that Andrée may still be alive, a relief expedition has