ESTABLISHED 1866. The Marlborough Express PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 3, 1916. THE GREEK CRISIS.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 225, 3 October 1916, Page 4

ESTABLISHED 1866. The Marlborough Express PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 3, 1916. THE GREEK CRISIS.

The impatience wi.th which the Russian and : Italian press regards' the apparent i' 'slackness' 'of the' Allies' diplomacy in Greece is hot unnatural. Month after-month.-.Ka^ pass^. since, King Constantino first mad© it clear that he would, svibordinate the interests of his country to those of his Imperial •'; brother-in-law. He has impeded and obstructed the eaxterprisea of the Allies "'oil'every possible; occasion, and by every conceivable' mearnS; i-7-means ; not* infrequently' alßpios^ opGilly dishonest and tr^achcrbus. lt«iur^. tho. last , month^iiS iffls:^4, ample proof of the fact -thjat... the 'jnajoritanbf his :pabjp!s 'ai'e op^bssd to Ms p^6-Cia.'inaJi^"pbhey) and view, with profound $isgmb tltfii ""salrillee, Qt [(jrreek. int^i'^t&i,^',Tste . ti^fepusl 'cpmpcicl /by. " whioli,; WQ&&&' teadi- ; tio.hal eneßiieS> .i»#. Btil^ariaiis, allowed t<a inv&s& ; Macedonia pi-bved too niucU ','- -fer; .the, more 'patriotic G reeks to suffer in' ..'silence. ; Hence tli^":^-palled'. "revoiutionary"■.move--1 tiihni' >yhich, commenoing . with • the \vhp^e'^ale ' volunteering of Greek oncers for service under Gneneral Sarr^ii;, >)ias now 'developed into a wide-s^r-eiac) .and formidable defiance of the prp-^efi-niaii policy of. the King ana tiliQ,.Court party. ■ • ICing Coristari.tine' has been tbld very ( plainly that the majority of the ("officers ai*e against him j and tliat. he would be wi^e to submit to -fche popular will while thei*o. is yet time to save himself ,from the: humiliation or' being- dep^d. Petrograd ■, and Rome r^Jioweyer,. have loisfc patience, and diesireiliß crisis to-be ended ai> occevßy the immediate removal of the King. No doubt it is. being reepg•nisect that > valiiablo- tim© has bceji wasteel by the dila^rypolicy.pursued by Great Britaiii^^smd Franc©, and it is feared that" the, grave, blunder which- allowed Bulgaria itb .ioiii ha.nds witfe' Germany: and crush , Serbia, when;' had the' Allies' .diplomacy, been mere-alert, Biilgaria, might. have found it'more to her interest to re'maiii 'iieutral,, may possibly be. i-e----peated. j; It is palpable that'Cjerieral Sarrail's operations have .been, dela yed^ and liampered by a .se"nse< of insedimty as; to- what Greece might dp, >aJ]dv it mast hot be foi-gpttpn, tha-t winter' cohimerices very early in . tlie Balkans,' hnd'tihat if the Allies' cam^ paign^airamst Bulgaria is to have '.'.a j-basonablovoharice of success it mys,t be prosecuted with vi^br before the passes are blocked \by snow .and operations have to bo suspended until tlie spring.of 1917., At; this' eleventih Hour. Kins: Coristantine may decide that to grant the demands of tho y Constitutionalists may, after all,; be prefei'able to deposition. '=I!heix> is indeed a rumor, in a Rome|paper^. that, Greece has actually declared war aocainst Bulgaria.; Biit the' King is CommandierintOhief or the Gree.k ai'my, and after his long and persistent favoring of the enemy: aonis Btispicion may well be en tertai tied whether he won Id prpsecutft a campaign . against Bulgaria honestly or actively, or whether, on the other liand, he might not endeavor to ..corrupt his officers' and T>lay tho Allies some dirty trick which might seriously embarrass them at a critical moment. The drastic policy of removing the King, who is merely the Kaiser's crenture, will appeal to most, people as .being preferab)© to allowing him to command the> Greek aivny in a campaign the conduct, of which must ncxiesfm'ily, if the best results arc to be achieved, largely depend upon an honest fmd faithful cooperation with the Allies of the Eutet'te. Latest news from Athens doer, nob throw much fresh 'light on the Greek pir/zlo. The Government, it is reported, may resign: the Latin Archbishop of Athens Jinforms the J Pope that Greece will soon be foix*«d into Avar, which tfre nfrvrAle clamorously demand from the Kinp:: while. ; tho Entonte pei*sist in their Rplicy of trying to indium C^-n-nt^ntipe's'" odi v'*nTF. to "come in" of theii* oi\ti free will, being, we are informed, "dieternunod to l^frnin froir* exerti"c; pressure to foro& any policy oji G^ece." No fl'onder, th'p^. after nil..'that the Russian and Italian press is impatiedfc. - .- .