in the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 39, 16 June 1915, Page 5

in the Balkans

AN ADVANCE ON SERVIA. BY AUSTRIANS AND ALBANIANS CUnithd Py”«« AaQooi.'-»ow 1 Bucharest, June 14. Austrians landed at San Giovanni and distributed rifles, machine-guns, ammunition, and money. Combined Austrian and Albanian forces are advancing towards the Servian rear, and menacing the Montenegrin communications. M. VENEZELOS. RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS* Athens, June 14. A partial result of the elections indicates M. Venezelos’ triumph. He has already won two hundred seats, assuring a majority. Athens, June 15. M. Gounaris, the Prime Minister who succeeded M. Venezelos, was elected, but the Venezelists secured the remaining fifteen seats of his division. V/HAT GREECE HAS TO GAIN. Contrasting the position of Italy with that of Greece, M. Venezelos is reported ns saying: “It is not permitted to Greece to hesitate as Italy did. Italy, with more than 30,000,000 inhabitants, has only about 1,000,000 conational unredeemed, while Greece, with a population of only 5,000,000, has 4,000,000 Greeks to liberate.” The Greeks in Greece are not likely to forget this big proportion of their kinsmen still “unredeemed,” millions of whom are subject to the misrule o( the Turks. The title of their King keeps the humiliating truth ever in their minds. When Prince William of Denmark, father of the present King, and brother of Queen Alexandria, was elected to the throne in 1863, the title he chose wa,s King of the Greeks, and not King of Greece. This led to a strong protest from the Sultan of Turkey, and ultimately the Greek Government altered the official title of their 'own King to “King of the Hellenes.” It was a distinction without a difference, for all Greeks are Hellenes, and wherever they are they look on King Constantine as their King, and await as patiently as they can the day of their emancipation.