"OCCULT INFLUENCES."

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 3

"OCCULT INFLUENCES."

A MINISTRY OF PUPPETS

THE KINOIS DOUBLE DEALING

(" The Time* " Service.)

(Received September 23, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 22.. ,A well-informed,, correspondent at Athens defines the. remarkable position to "the occult influences governing Greece," consisting of M. Streit, M. Gounais, and M. Dousmaniss, the clique surrounding King Constantino, who have been appointed a new Ministry, whoso position daily becomes more absurd. When the royal nominees were appointed^ patriotic Greeks fomented revolutionary movements, as they realised that it was hopeless to expect the new Cabinet of puppets and intriguers to attack the Bulgarian invaders.

The Government; belatedly realising the growing'strength of the feeling against Bulgaria, and alarmed at the numbers of officers and men smuggling themselves towards Salonica, issued' an authoritative report asserting the [King's intention to declare war... Bulgaria, at the same' time, issued another authoritative report for proGermanß, stating thoro would bo no intervention before two months. This latter proclamation was issued because the Government believed that Germany would destroy Roumania before that date, and would then send a sufficient force to the Dardanelles to render intervention impossible.