GREEK GOVERNMENT'S PROTEST

Nelson Evening Mail, 18 September 1916, Page 5

GREEK GOVERNMENT'S PROTEST

AN IMPUDENT REPLY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.^ ATHENS, Sept. 16. The German Minister, answering the Greek Government's protest against the invasion- of Drama and Kavais, said : "The Bulgarians already regard you as an enemj, and are taking measures ac cordingly." , GREEKS TO ENCAMP IN SOUTH GERMANY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.^ COPENHAGEN, Sept, 15. The Fourth Greek Division will not be used in the German military service. Thev will be placed i:t camps in the south of Germany. Some of the officers ano men were accompanied by their wives and families. The newspapers welcome the Greeks,, and comment on the event as the most curious in history. M. ZATM'I-3. . LONDON, Sept. 17. An Athens telegram confirms the report that M. Za-imis, prior to his resig nation, lost King iConstantine's favour. GREEK REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT SPREADING. LONDON, Sept. 16. A wireless message from Salonika states that tobacco valued at ten million sterling is warehoused in Greek Government magazines at Kavafa for different companies. Grain-, flour, oil, and munitions have been transported to Bulgaria. Fifteen officers from Athens landed at Salonika and placed themselves at the disposal of the National Defence Committee. The islands of Crete, Mitylene, Chin -and Sarnos have adhered to the revohi iion. GREEK DESERTERS FROM PIRAEUS. ATHENS. Sept. 17. M. Georse Melas. ex-Secretary to Kinrr Constantine, in a letter challenging M. Strict, the King's adviser, to a duel, declares that the Kavala catastrophe was the natural consequence of the treason due to. the German op hi le policy of which M. Sfcriet was the first apostle. One hundred and seventy officers have joined the National Defence Committee at Salonika. Soldiers are forbidden to leave Piraeus, but officers joining the revolution are evading the order, the majority departing secretly in civilian clothes. REVOLUTIONARIES WARMLY RECEIVED AT SALONIKA. SALONIKA. Sept. 17. Colonel Christodoulos nnd 2500 troops from Thasos received «i:i ovation in the streets of Salonika. The harbour was heflagged 1 .