M. Tricoupis, lately . Premier of Greece, on Tuesday made a
declaration of his views to the Paris correspondent of the Times, obviously for publication. M. Tricoupis admits that he hopes to regain power, and acknowledges that if he regained it, be should use the Greek Fleet, now completed, to protect his countrymen still under Turkish domination. He should send it to Crete, for example, confident either that the Sultan, "for well-understood reasons," would keep his own Fleet in the Bosphorus, or that the Greek Fleet would defeat it. Europe stopped interference before, but M. Tricoupis evidently calculates that, with half the Continent standing on guard against theother half, Greece would be free of European control. The programme is bold to rashness, but why does M. Tricoupis put it forward just now? Clearly as a hint to the two Alliances that Greece will join the one which gives her the Greek islands. M. Triconpis, tired of reforming Greek finance, would like to be the Cavour of Hellas.
