Greece

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 2 October 1916, Page 5

Greece

WAR QN BULGARIA. LATbST 3EM3ATIO?!AL REPORT. PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION I'ress Association —Copyright, Austra Uan and N.Z. Cahlo Association . Rome, October J. According to the Roma, Greece, with '' King Constantino in agreement, has declared war ou Bulgaria. It is reported that General Mosohopjilos warned the King that every officer and non-com. would have departed for Salonika within a fortnight, and then it would be impossible to mobilise.

Twelve hundred officers have now joined the revolutionaries. The entire Greek Flying Corps, with army officers, have joined tho Allies' fleet at Canea. The island of Tenedos has also joined tho new Government. Order has been restored and tho new administration established in all provinces of Crete, except at Heraklion, where some unrest still pre* vails. At the religious service at Canea cathedral, in honor of the new Government, the Bishop-' s prayer invoked the Almighty to rid the King of all bad counsellors, and inspire him to follow the path of duty, which was the only way of national salvation. During the conflict at Crete between the Yenizelists and the antiVenezelists, several Germanophile agents were killed. The Gournarist deputies have constituted themselves a corps of guardians to the Royal family. King Constantino has asked to be put into telegraphic communication with the Kaiser.

THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Athens, September 30. A Canea telegram gives details of the proclamation of the Provisional Government, which is signed by M. Venjzelos and Admiral 'Condourfotis. In. the main it points to the companion .between Greece's present situation'and that which existed before the, war. It states that it would be a happy event if, at the eleventh bour, the King decided to take tho t lead and place the national forces alongside the Allies and Serbs to drive out the Bulgar invaders. In the event of the King acting to the contrary, it would be the Provisional Government's duty,: to do the needful to save the country from its threatened ruin. The application of a personal policy on the part of the Crown, which;was the victim of bad counsels, had resulted in a reapproachment with Greece's hereditary enemies, the violation of her constitution and 'internal anarchy. It dwells on the refusal of facilities to the Serbs, the abandonment of territory, the flight of, the population before the Bulgars, the cession of war material, the sending of Greek soldiers under a German guard and, causing patriots to be considered traitors. It concluded by stating that it was essential to reestablish national unity by an immediate return to the policy dictated by the national conscience.

REMOVAL OF TINO DEMANDED.

Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Petrograd, September 30. The newspapers are impatient - the apparent slackness of the Allies' diplomacy in Greece. The Vilomosti demands the immediate removal of King Constantine, who, with his advisers, are merely agents of Germany. The Italian) nowsapers echo these demands.