They insisted on the withdrawal of the Egyptians from Vrysis, and Schahin came again to demand the good offices of Dendrinos and myself, promising that if his men were left unmolested he would take no part in the action of the Turkish troops.

We sent messengers to the Cretan camp, urging this course, but they were not allowed to pass the Turkish lines; and the committee, not receiving the message, repeated the summons to the Egyptians to leave Vrysis immediately or take the consequences.

Schahin refused to withdraw them, and the insurgents, for such they now became, closed on them, cut off all supplies and water, and compelled them to surrender at discretion.
They were permitted to march out with their arms and equipments and send the next day for their artillery.
This was the end of all hopes of peace.

I do not know what the real influence of Dendrinos had been, for he was a man not to be believed, but we,--the Italian, the Greek, and myself,--had done everything in our power to keep the Cretans within the legal limits.

In the face, however, of such provocations as those of Ismael, and vacillation like that of Schahin, our efforts were useless.