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.
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 started off from the northern coast of Norway in search of the adventurer and his companions.
There is a very interesting article in this month's Scribner's Magazine, which tells about the starting of the balloon. You should read it.