THE GREEK SITUATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3651, 13 December 1920, Page 5

THE GREEK SITUATION.

PREPARING FOR TINO. Received 10.20 a.m. PARIS, Dec. 11. ' Le Matin's Geneva correspondent says'the Goernment at Athens has. informed Constantine that the Cruiser Averoff would await him in the Roads of Venice on Wednesday. Orders were thereupon given for a special train on Tuesday to convey Constantine, the Queen, Prince Paul', the Princess, and aides to Venice. The party will reach Greece on Sunday. ATHENS, Dec. 12. Great preparations arc being made for , Constantine's entTy on Sunday, 19th inst. The King, on a white charger, leads the parade and accompanies the procession to the Cathedral, where the Te Deum will be sung. A warship" meets the "Crown "Prince George at Constanza.

THE PLEBISCITE 'RESULT. Received 10.50 a.m. ATHENS, Dec,, 12. Of 1,012,589 votes cast in the plebiscite ninety-nine /per cent, were given to Constantine. THE SEVRES TREATY. Received 11 a.m. CONSTANTINOLE, Dec. 12. Abdul Mofijid, heir to the Throne., interviewed by a French jou r nalist, stated that peace in Asia Minor would be unobtainable until the Sevres treaty is modified. It is very fragile, and Turkey might be in Eastern Europe what Poland was n Central EuropeJa barrier -against Bolshevism. Close relations between the Kemaliist" and Bolsheviks were merely provisional. While the Bolsheviks were out for the world's destruction, the Kemalists sought only the destruction of the Sevres treaty, and would cease their connection when they had obtained satisfaction.