PROVOKING TURKEY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 164, 20 October 1910, Page 5

PROVOKING TURKEY

GREEK KINGS ACTION. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright. Athens, October 18. Venizelos is forming a Cabinet, the King having promised to grant a dissolution if required. Turkish papers regard the King's action as a gratuitous provocation to Turkey. NEW GREEK MINISTRY. Received 10, 11.20 p.m. Athens, October 10. The new Ministry formed consists of— M. Venizelos, Premier; M. Repoulis, Minister for the Interior; M. Corvmilos (late Greek Minister at Washington), Minister for Finance; and Mr. Gryparis, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Writing last month, the English Review of Reviews says: The elections to the Greek National Assembly have resulted in a great personal triumph for M. Venizelos, the statesman and patriot of Crete, whose candidates have swept Attica and whose accession to power as Prime Minister, is now accepted as inevitaole. Dr. Dragoulis, the editor of the Erevna, who is well known in Oxford and London as a Greek scholar and patriot of the first rank, has been elected by no fewer than three constituencies. Dr. Dragoulis is, unfortunately, a little hard of hearing, but his deafness is more than compensated for by extraordinary keenness of political insight. A few more men in Hellenic politics like M. Venizelos and Dr. Dragoulis and a new era would soon dawn on modern Hellas. The Turks showed some disposition to' protest against the election of M. Venizelos on the ground that he is a Cretan. As he is admittedly a subject of the Greek King, the fact that he lives in Crete does not matter, and the protest of the Turks .met with little support from the Powers. It is in the interest of the Ottoman Empire that power at Athens should be in the hands of a strong, honest and pacific -statesman.