The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916. "KING OF THE HELLENES."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 2 October 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916. "KING OF THE HELLENES."

The cable news regarding the position in Greece, though certainly more hopeful, still indicates that the pro-German .element is having a gojl deal to do with the ' pulling of the strings which actuate the puppet King, whose "mind," which by th : s time is generally, admitted to be strongly ivith the enemy, sc many correspondents profess to know. t is contended in some quarters this King Constantine is really desirous of honest neutrality and is ' pro-i Greek but not pro-German. Tlu! scandalous surrender of the Kavalla forts and other incidents highly degrading to Greek national honour buti vastly helpful to the wily Hun, mak% it very difficult to believe, and it is not wonderful to find the press of Petrograd calling the Allies to ac count for not acting with great r firmness and determination in face of the King's time-wasting vacillation Under pressure and in face of fchd actual revolution which b taking place in Greece because of the Government's failure to at once declare for the Allies, King Constantine nm apparently acquiesce in the proposal } to come over to the right side, and, I will probably do so. but he will need I close watching. When the whole 1 thing is done with Greece will learn how much she owes to M. Vonizelos whose patriotism and courage have' never failed in the most difficult task a Minister of the Crown could possibly have placed upon him Though ho was absolutely forced to enter upon unconstitutional courses by aj constitution-breaking monarch, he maintained the national side of the movement and did not attack ev--n his enemies, but tries tin bigger task of drawing them into one fold. "The patriotic movement," he told The Times correspondent, "is not in---tended against the King or the dynasty"; it is a last effort "to induce tire King to come forth as King ■of the Hellenes and follow the pa:'. /of duty in protecting his subjects." •The chances are that Constantine will now do this, but proofs of his sincerity will be needed.