Greece

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 17, 14 December 1916, Page 5

Greece

RESCM OF A?JARCHY. YENIZELISTS PERSECUTED. Fr-gss Association—Co'pyright, Austra* lian and N.Z. Cable Association London. December 13. A special correspondent of the Times, in an uncensored dispatch from Greece, states that anarchy still prevails. The inquisition against Veil Jzelists continues. Judicial functionaries are conducting daily house-to-house searches, and are imprisoning increasing numbers of Venizelists. ft is reported the prisoners are shot at night. A reign of terror exists, surpassing ihe worst record of Abdul Hamid. The Allies are still unable io protect- their Greek friends. The Gernianophile "res-; publish a forged political b-itei in Wmzelos' name as proof of an alleged ;!> ir fRoyalist's plot, in order to 101.-tor up

the abominable Royalist outrages a the attacks on the Allied troops. The Government is complacently permitting their Press organs to launch every conceivable, accusation against M, Venizelos and his supporters, knowing that the Yenizelist journalists are unable to reply, as they are all imprisoned, and their property destroyed. No Venizelist paper has been published since December 1".

The Government organs are taking advantage of the Allies not having made reprisals for the outrages, and now assert that Greece has no desire to fight the Allies, so long as the Allies have learnt for ever the lesson to abstain henceforth from interfering with Greece and her internal affairs.

ARMY CORPS ON TH V E MARCH. Paris, December 12. A wireless message from Berne states that information from an official German source is to the effect that the ' commander of the Greek Army Corps, who is nominally interned at Goerlitz, has received King Constantino's orders to hold himself in readiness to co-operate with .the Gcr-mano-Bulgars against General Sarttul. Preparations have been ging on during the past week for the transport of the corps towards Macedonia, jam it is believed it is now en route. The troops have never been treated ;is interneds, but have received systematic training under German instructors. Indications from the outset pointed to King Constantino and the Kaiser having arranged to use them against the Allies at the first opportune moment. The Petit Parisien reports that Count Tisza, in a speech, said that the Austrian and German Governments l'.ave invited King Constant no to attack General Sarrail. The Chancellor of the Greek Legation at Paris boasts that Greece will not feel the pinch of the blockade for three weeks, when a junction of the Greek and German armies may be accomplished.