Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . isers ofthe blockading fleet. Both Greece andTurkey began preparing for war. Ulti-mately, Greece yielded to the demand ofthe Powers, and withdrew her troopsfrom Crete, the Powers undertaking toset up autonomy under the nominal su-zerainty of the Sultan, and to secure thewithdrawal of the Turkish forces evacuation of the island by the Turk-ish troops was completed Nov. 6, 1898, rault. The department has an area of2,163 square miles. Pop. about 266,000. CREUSOT, LE (
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . isers ofthe blockading fleet. Both Greece andTurkey began preparing for war. Ulti-mately, Greece yielded to the demand ofthe Powers, and withdrew her troopsfrom Crete, the Powers undertaking toset up autonomy under the nominal su-zerainty of the Sultan, and to secure thewithdrawal of the Turkish forces evacuation of the island by the Turk-ish troops was completed Nov. 6, 1898, rault. The department has an area of2,163 square miles. Pop. about 266,000. CREUSOT, LE (krez-6), a town inthe French department of Saone-et-Loire,236 miles S. S. E. of Paris. Situated inthe midst of a district rich in coal andiron, it owes its importance to the estab-lishment here in 1837 of the great iron-works of Schneider & Co., which rankamong the largest in the world. Innormal times over 15,000 men are em-ployed. During the World War thenumber of workers was more thandoubled. CREWE, ROBERT OFFLEY ASH-BURTON CREWE-MIL?^rES, MAR-QUIS OF, a British statesman. Howas born in London, 1858, and was. FORT AT HARBOR E>tTRANCE, ISLAKD OP CRETE and Prince George of Greece was ap- ?ointed the high commissioner of theowers in Crete. In 1904-1905 there were revolts againstthe high-handed methods of the commis-sioner. A revolutionary assembly soughtthe annexation of the island to Greece,but the Powers forced them to abandonthe attempt. In 1906 Prince George re-signed. In 1910 Venizelos, Cretan leaderand Premier of Greece, formed the Bal-kan League and, as a result of the Bal-kan War of 1912, Crete was annexed toGreece. CRETINISM, a kind of idiocy preva-lent in various Alpine valleys. In most, ifnot in all cases, the afflicted person hasan ugly swelling called a goitre on theneck. The mental deficiency varies indegree, being in some cases so gieat thatthe unhappy person thus affected is un-able to do anything for himself, and can-not even articulate words; in others there
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