Greece

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 32, 5 September 1916, Page 5

Greece

wants him, he will retire to Germany with his family. ENTENTE DEMANDS ACCEPTED. REVOLUTION (Received 11.10 a.m.) 'Athens, September 4. The Government will accept the demands of the Entente Note. The present demands are confined to the war against Bulgaria. The revolution is extending in Crete.

NEUTRALITY QUESTION. KING CONSTANTINE’S ALLEGED CONVERSION. t^NTERESTING TREND OF EVENTS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London,- September 3. The Daily Chronicle’s Athens correspondent states: Constantine has expressed his belief of the expediency of Greece abandoning hei neutrality. Saturday was an eventful day, and the political situation is moving towards a satisfactory solution. Both sides have tacitly agreed to give their support to the Zaimis Cabinet, which will thus cease to he merely an interregnum Cabinet and become a political Cabinet, enjoying the full confidence of the Crown, and the complete support of the Venizelist party. M. Venizelos, equally with King Constantino, approved the abandonment of neutrality. M. Venizelos, desiring the welfare of - the country before place or power, is prepared to sink self, to achieve the realisation of a policy wherefor we have long been striving. We may look before long to see the last of the Balkan States fighting on the side of the Allies.” Moved by the prevailing spirit of unrest the convicts at the Citidel at Salonika mutinied, and attacked the warders, but a few rifle shots restored order. King Constantine gave an audience to the British Minister on Saturday. King Constantine is very lill, and asked to be taken aboard the Royal yacht. It is understood that the Entente’s Note is mainly directed at the removal of Baron Schenk, the German propagandist, and those associated with him. Many have already departed. The German Minister, Count Mirbach, departed, by motor Car . The Allied fleet has not blockaded the Piraeus Sea, and trade is not molested. The Daily Telegraph’s Athens correspondent states that Baron Schenk is apparently determined to play the fool, and has not yet left Athens. He barricaded his house and has with him twenty bravos, who are provided with a liberal supply of hand grenades.

GERMAN PRESS ACTION. Copenhagen, September German newspapers are preparing the public for Greece’s entry declaring that King Constantine, in order to prevent civil war, must join the En tente. SERBIANS REPULSE BULCARS(Received 11.30 a.m.) Paris, September 4. has be£n intermittent artillery work on the Struma and Lake Doiran. The Serbians easily repulsed a Bulgarian attack. KING CONSTANTINE’S INTENTIONS. MIGHT CO TO GERMANY! (Received 11-30 a.m.) Athens?, September 4. stood that directly Greece oo longu