THE GREEK PATRIOTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1671, 6 February 1917, Page 4

THE GREEK PATRIOTS.

The declaration of war issued by the Venizelist Government against Bulgaria and Germany sets forth the causes of war as follows: — “The Provisional Government thinks it right to bring to the knowledge of the belligerent States, of which it has become the ally, and of the neutral States, whose sympathy it desires, the fact that from this day it considers itself in a state of war with Bulgaria for having attacked Servia, Greece’s ally, and invaded, in spite of her pi’omises, the national territory; and with Germany for having incited and aided Bulgaria to light against Servia, and to act against Greece; for having violated the guarantees she gave to the Greek' Government with regard to the towns of Seres, Drama, and Kavalla; for having extended to Greek maritime commerce in Greek territorial waters, without plausible reason or previous warning, the criminal attempts of submarines, and for having cynically declared that she intended to persevere in these acts of destruction of defenceless vessels, and the cowardly murder of innocent passengers; and for having, tin ally, undertaken to demoralise, humiliate, and divide the Greek people to the detriment of their honour and their natural interests. Not beingable to send a direct notification of the present declaration of war to the Governments of the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the German Empire, the Provisional Government asks the Allied Governments to be good enough to communicate it to them in its' name by any means at their disposal.”