GREECE AND ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2982, 20 January 1917, Page 7

GREECE AND ALLIES

A SHEER ACT OF DEFIANCE

London, January 18. The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Home states that in accordance with the Entente's ultimatum the Greek Government has removed General Callaris, military _ commander at Athens, but the appointment of General Yanakitsas as his succcssor is a sheer act of defiance. General Yanakitsas, when War Minister in the Skouloudis Cabinet, negotiated tiro surrender of Tort llupel to tlio Germans, and since has been one of the prime movers in anti-Entento intrigues.

.The Russian Minister at Athens has notified the Russian colony, which took refugo at Rome, that its return is impossible at present.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED London, January 18. Mr. Jeffries, the "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Athens., says that in the event of non-acceptance or the Allies' ultimatum, General Sarrail was prepared to entirely destroy the Greek Army. All plans, even to the entry of the Greeks against the Allies, were based on the co-operation of the Germans. If Mackensen had been at Monasfcir, the reply, perhaps, would have been different. Even the archGerman Gounaris counselled acceptance of the demands'.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONSULS"RESIGN Melbourne, January 19. The Gazette announces that the Greek Consuls at Perth and Brisbane have resigned.—Press Assn.