Greece

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 82, 3 November 1916, Page 5

Greece

j CONSTANTINE, THE CUTE.

iTess Association— Copyngnt. (Reuter’s Telegrams. London, November 2. | A Salonika correspondent states 'that the Venizolos Government has ■ issued a communique, expressing the 'opinion that the Athens Government I will not loyally carry out the de!mands of the Entente, alleging that j regiments have left Thessaly on the pretext of maintaining order. These will form centres for new concentrations. The communique expresses the hop; that the Allies will not be duped, but will use ovd'.v precaution. It declares that the Venizolos Government is I'uancially. able to carry out all ; ts envoi-,rises, and wml form a well-equipped army. THE SINKING OF THE ANGEUCi. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Athens, November 2. The Government proposes to hold an investigation into the sinking of the Angelica. The Government press allege that the sinking was due to a floating mine.

Admiral Foment has ordered the Augelici to be salved and brought to the Piraeus, to undergo expert examination, and, if she is found to have been torpedoed, Greece intends to protest to Germany.

RESENTMENT AGAINST HUNS.

AN ENEMY STATEMENT. GERMANS OSTRACISED IN ATHENS. Press Association—Copyright. , United Service. (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, November 2. Mr Jeffries,' correspondent writing from Athens, says that exasperation over the .Angeliki has driven the Germjm Legation to issue a statement, the, insolent Tohe of which is unlikely to! mend matters, it states that German submarines only attack ships offending the contraband regulations, and that such ships arc carrying revolutionaries. The statement alleges that the Angleliki was not torpedoed but there was an explosion as the result of internal -combustion, which theory the governmental press attempts to support, hut the passengers’ evidence is irrefutable. In view of this danger, the hahly he asked to permit the National Army recruits to use the Larissa railway to Salonika. The Gorman minister has been requested to leave the hotel at which he habitually dines. Similar ostracism of all Germans has been planned.