GREECE NEW GREEK CABINET

Nelson Evening Mail, 23 September 1916, Page 5

GREECE

NEW GREEK CABINET

ASSURANCE TO BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE. READY TO SACRIFICE PROGERMAN MINISTERS. (Rec. Sept. 23. 9.25 a.m.) ■. .■- - ATHENS, Sept. 22. The Director-General of the Foreign. .'Office visited Sir Francis Elliott, the British Representative at Athens, and assured him that the new Cabinet was onlv a. business- and not a political •Cabinet. It was ready, if recognised hy the Entente, to sacrifice Germanophile Ministers who, before assuming portfolios, indulged in an attack on the Entente. ■■•'- •

"PUPPETS AND INTRIGUERS." BARE-FACED DUPLICITY. (Rec. Sept. 23. 9.10 a.m.) . . "LONDON, Sept, 22. A -well-informed - . correspondent at Athens defines a- remarkable position. Occult- influences are governing Greece, consisting of Streit. Gounais, and Dotismannis, a- clique who are surrounding King Constantine and who appointed the new Ministry: whose position is daily becoming more absurd. When the Royal nominees -were apnointed the patriotic Greeks fomented movements. It- is realised that it is hopeless to expect the new Cabinet of puppets and intriguers to attack the-Bulgarian invaders. The Government. belatedlv realising the growing strength of the feeling against Bulgaria, and alarmed at the numbers of officers and men smngsrling themselves towards Salonika, has issued an authoritative report asserting that it is the King's intention to declare war on Bulgaria.

- 'At the same time the Government issued another authorr'tative report for .the roro-Germans, stating that there would be no intervention before two -months. They issued the latter because the Government that Germany ■would destroy Roumania before that date and then send a. sufficient force to the Dardanelles to render intervention impossible.

MONARCHY'S FATE IN THE

BALANCE

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.^

LONDON, Sept. 22.

Mr Jefferies reports that M. Venezelos is prepared to leave, and is temporarily holding his hand. Chaos reigns, and the Government is powerless. The monarchy's fate hangs on England's declaration.