Second Edition Greece

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 4 September 1916, Page 6

Second Edition Greece

FRENCH REPORT VIOLENT ARTJLLERY WORK. SERBIANS REPULSE BULGARIANS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.50 a.m.) v -■...-'■ Paris, September 3. A communique states: Violent artillery work occurred on the Struma front and at Doiran Lake. Our patrols frequently reconnoitered the right bank of the Struma. Serbian infantry fire repulsed a Bulgarian attack north-east of Knktvanz. UNDER WHICH FLAG. NATIONALISTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES AT WORK. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.35 a.m.) Salonika, September 3. The Committee of National Defence is • exerting its authority in a determined manner. It has forbidden Greeks between/the ages of nineteen and forty-five to leave Macedonia, and is mobilising class 1915 of men of 21, including Mahommedans and Jews, whom the Government exempted. A few presented themselves, and gendarmes are arresting the absentees. The revolutionary commandant at Salonika authorised the soldiers and officers to wear the blue-and-white armlet badge of revolution; those not wearing the badge to be considered reactionaries and arrested; and a soldier not sympathising with the revolution may apply for a permit to remain at his residence, otherwise he would be arrested. The revolutionaries sent detachments to Vodena and other towns to encourage enrolment of volunteers. Many are joining, even from Old Greece.

DEMANDS OF THE ANGLOFRENCH NOTE. CREEK ACCEPTANCE RELIED UPON. Press Association—Copyright. Renter's, Telegrams (Received 1.55 p.m.) Athens, September 3. The Anglo-French joint Note presented to the Greek Government demands the Allied control of the post and telegraphs, .including 'wireless, "on the ground that it is being used to convey information to the enemy; also the expulsion of enemy agents (on the grounds of bribery and espionage) and the necessary measures against their Greek accomplices. It is. understood that Greece has no objection to the acceptance of the demands.

THE ALLIES' FRIEND. Press Association—Copyright, Austin-j lian and M.Z. Cable Association. , : . (Received '9.25 a.m.) ;' : London, September 3. M. Venizelos, in a message to the Sunday Times', - says that although deeply grieved that Greece had so much delayed paying her due contribution to the struggle against Prussian militarism, and for the independence' of smaller States, he trusts that the inßuence following the Roumanian intervention renders further persistence in a policy of Neutrality absolutely impossible, and that Greece at the earlist moment will join the camp of her traditional friends in order to accomplish her own national ideals.