PORTE MAKES REPLY; It Declines to Agree to an Armistice Until Surprising Conditions Be Accepted. DEMANDS THESSALY, 10,000,000, AND THE ABOLITION OF CAPITULATIONS. The Issue Raised Regarded as Very Grave -- News of a Grecian Advance in Epirus Said to Have Prejudiced the Porte in Its Reply.
Date: 17 May 1897