THE BLOCKADE OF GREECE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3010, 22 February 1917, Page 5

THE BLOCKADE OF GREECE

N9 RELAXING TILL DEMANBS

FULFILLED

SEARCH FOR HIDDEN ARMS

Athens, February 20. _ The Entente Legations explain that the continuation of tho blockade is due to the iacompleto fulfilment of the last ultimatum, especially the halfhearted removal of arms Tho Entente sympathises with the sufferings of innocent people, and is considering the question of facilitating food supplies as soon as circumstances permit. The Government has empowered the police to search private houses for secreted arms.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE ALLp~ADVANCE PROGRESS OF THE ITALIANS. Athens, February 20. The Italians occupied Konitsa (on the Viosa River, a. few miles south of the Albanian frontier), ou Thursday.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SLAVE RAIDERS IN SERBIA CONQUERED PEOPLE HUNTED LIKE CATTLE. Paris, February 20. _ Tho Paris "Tomps" states that reliable narratives from Serbia stato that forty thousand peoplo have boon torn from their homes and sent to Hungary. Tho troops raided tho towns, the villages, and tho countryside, abducting men and women ovor fifteen. A pitiless huut for mon and woinon took place in Belgrade. The victims wero rounded up in the streets like oat He. In one concentration camp at Hoinriohsgrun, tho deported peoplo wero ba.roly ablo to subsisl od the rations. Besidos the eldors in tho Braunor Camp, hundred! sn'all boys wero rapidly wasting from privations and sickness.—AufWif.Z, Oablo Assn<