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Keywords: Marines from German warship on blockade duty, Suda Bay, Crete.jpg German sailors during blockade duty in Souda Bay Crete Following the repeated uprisings by the Cretan people in 1889 1895 and 1897 the Great Powers decided to restore order by governing the island temporarily through a committee of four admirals Germany sent the armored warship SMS Oldenburg to Crete It operated with Allied ships from early January 1898 until being recalled in March SMS Oldenburg is not the ship visible in the right background On 25 August 1898 a Turkish mob massacred hundreds of Cretan Greeks the British Consul and 17 British soldiers As a result the Turkish forces were expelled from the island by the Great Powers in November 1898 LOC-image cph 3b13477 1898 Underwood Underwood J F Jarvis publisher No known restrictions on publication frame removed PD-Underwood 1898 photographs Underwood Underwood Imperial German Navy History of Crete
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