FACTS ABOUT GREECE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 58, 6 November 1915, Page 6

FACTS ABOUT GREECE.

Greece is mainly an agricultural country. Currants are largely cultivated.' About 160.000 tons are produced annually. Greece gained its independence m 1830, when it was declared a kingdom under the protection of Great Britain. France and Russia. King Constantine of Greece, Is for-ty-seven years of age. His father, King George, who was assassinated in 1913, was Queen Alexandria’s brother. Military service is compulsory. It commences in the twentieth year, and lasts for the long period of thirtyone years. The war strength of the Greek army is between 280,000 and 300,000 men. As a result of her wars with ’Purkey and Bulgaria in 1912 and 1913, Greece gained 16,919 square miles of new territory, and added a couple of millions to her population, which now totals nearly 5,000,000. Cheese is produced i» barge quanti-ties—-sliced cheese and head-cheese. The production of the former in 1912 amounted to 1,995,0001 b, and of tho latter 2,280,0001 b. Most of the sliced cheese is consumed in Greece, chiefly in the cities of Athens and Piraeus.

Since 1911 a British naval mission has been superintending the training and organisation of the Greek navy, which consists of two modern battleships, three small ones, fourteen destroyers, and a number of miscellaneous craft. One of their cruisers, the Aberolf, was acquired through a deceased millionaire of that name leaving the bulk of his lortune lor improving the navy.