Second Edition. In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 17, 23 December 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. In the Balkans

r Ilack outlook. Wl $% EM IE R i NTE R VIEWED. lliMtKu Tmksb Association,] i (Received 1.25 't.hi.) London, December 22. iNIr Martin Dno'ioti, writing from Athens, states that he interviewed the., Premier (M. Skoiiloudis), who, he sttys. is a conversationalist, re- ' plete with virile energy, despite his seventy-eight years. M. ,Hkoul6udis said: This is the 'most critical moment in Greek history. The future is as black as night. Greece tried to "play the game," as you English say, and sought to see eye to eye with" the Entente, and if Greece is not fighting whole-heartedly oh your side it is because the Entente's ■ statesmen and diplomatists failed in their duty. The Allies flout- ' eel'Greece ihstead of .placating her,™ and coquetted with Bulgaria, treating Greece disdainfully. The result is "that the Allies have fallen between two stools. If the Allies .bad frankly asked for aid,. Greece would not have "hesitated,V'a mnmeht; instead,. England and France began demanding thesacrifice of Kavala and Seres to ourj brtterest foes. ' \Vhen. Greece was asked to co-operate in the Dardanelles the;Allies wore, warned that on no account must they dream of marching tQ;OQnstantinbpl l e, as the Greeks, were, forbidden, ,iu .deference to Russia, to. show the Hag within fifty miles of Byzantine capital; yet Greece nourishes national dreams and ambitions,. Nevertheless, and we have not forKptteh,Gladstone and Though -you buHiedus, we turned the other cheek/and warned you of the difficulties and dangers of the Dardanelles expedition; "moreover; we offered a .perfected scheme ..of operations which the Greek GeneraT Staff had worked out long ago, in the event of war with Tdrlrey. Yet the... Allies ignored and" humiliated us, and when we decided to continue, neutral,, goaded. |ind goaded us into hostilities. '..■'; ' , '. THE wIiIIRPMENT OF'WARNA. (Rfeqeived,pLff3 p.m.) *; v* ■■, m t U » k p<;ember 22 -, r The 'Tribunesi Athens, cori-espoiid- . em states that the, .Russians bom-. .. ttfrtttf :Far£a ai| ( clay' long, destroyingthfe forts and Wracks! \ 1N * ~ ;•? I A* German sulwftarine sallied out, , btit was ajayeiy back by,.£upnre.