THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1915, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

GREEK CABINET RESIGNS. CAUSE OF THE CRISIS. M. VENIZELOS ON GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.

London, Nov. 4. A no-conlidence. motion was carried in the Crock Parliament by 147 votes to 114 and the Cabinet will resign, A debate on the military proposals raised a discussion between the Minister of War and the Venizelos maojrity. The Government asked for the Chamber's confidence.

M. Venizelos recently informed a correspondent, "When I next come into office I shall make war on Bulgaria." Athens, Nov. 4. if. Venizelos, before the vote, declared that it was impossible for Liberals to support a Government whose policy was fatal to the country's Interests.

The immediate cause of the crisis wa-: a remark bv M. Yanakitsas which M. Venizelos considered an insult to the Chamber. He insisted on an immediate apology, whereupoji M. Zaimis declared the Government's solidarity with the Minister of War.

After M. Zaimis' resignation had been placed in the hands of the King the deputies made a demonstration in honour of M. Venizelos.

DISSOLUTION OF CHAMBER PROBABLE. FORECAST OF CABINET. Received Nov. 5, 10.20 p.m. Athens, Nov. 5. The entire press predict a dissolution of the Chamber, and the formation of the same Cabinet, containing, possibly, a new War Minister. When the Chamber reassembled in the afternoon M. Venizelos received a striking demonstration.

THE SCENE IN 'THE CHAMBER. FIRMNESS OF M. VENIZELOS. AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION. Received Nov. 5, 11.40 p.m. Athens, Nor. 5. In tile course of an all-night debate on demobilisation a Venizelist deputy angered M. Yanakitsa, reminding him that he was not a deputy. M. Yanakitsa abruptly quitted the Chamber, and tumult followed, the sitting being suspended. When it was resumed, after a Ministerial conference, M. Venizelos insisted that M. Yanakitsa should apologise for his disrespectful departure; otherwise the Chamber, he said, would be unable to continue the sitting. M. Zaimis justified M. Yanakitsa's conduct, and demanded a vote of order of confidence •

M. Venizelos thereupon attacked the Government's foreign policy, and deplored the abandonment of Serbia to Bulgaria Greece's hereditary enemy. He pointed out that the Government could not shelter behind the King, The Government alone were responsible. Under the constitution, the Crown has a right to disagree with the Government, but after the last elections there should not have been further disagreement. M. Venizelos said he considered it better to suspend the Constitution than have fresh elections in order to iix the responsibility fairly, anl the majority will assert itself.

M. Gournaris replied that the King had a right to disapprove of the Government.

M. Venizelos said: "I should have preferred not to draw the King's name into the discussion. Our State is a democracy. If you want monarchy say so openly. I know that the King is a distinguished General, but he is not equally experienced in things political."

M. VENIZELOS' VIEWS. GREECE ALL TO GAIN. New York, Nov. 4. M. Venizelos, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, said: "Our duty is to enter the war as a moral obligation to Serbia to prevent a Bulgarian predominance, and to protect the ideals of small nations against the ideals of a single great State. Greece has all to gain by a victory for the Allies. SATISFACTION IN ITALY. Rome, Nov. 4. The resignation of M. Zaimis has caused intense satisfaction in Italian political circles.

BULGARS BOMBARD NISH. FRENCH STRONGLY ENTRENCHED. BRITISH ADVANCING. London, Nov. 4. The Lokal Anzeiger'3 Sofia correspondent states that the Bulgarians bombarded the northern and north-eastern exterior forts at Nißh and destroyed the wireless station, The. Serbians, in the fighting around Pirot, abandoned provision wagons and American munitions. Pirot wa9 destroyed by the Sertiians before evacuation. The arsenal at liraguievatz was similarly set 011 fire. A Bulgarian communique claims the capture of 000 prisoners and four guns southward of Stmmnitza. Reuter'e Salonika correspondent says the French are strongly entrenched in the heights on the mountainous front of R&brovo, Gradno, and Demirkapu, and are holding the Bulgarians at a distance. The first British contingent reached Glievgheli on October 29.

AID FROM THE FRENCH. FOOD FOR SERBIA. TROOPS STILL LANDING Salonika, Nov. 4. The French commissariat has sent, via Monastir, • several trainloads of flour, corn and mai2e, towards the valleys of the Oclirida district to feed the Serbian population. Thousands of tons of corn have already been sent to Albania. Paris, Nov, 4. A French communique says:—The landings of French troops at Salonika continue without incident, )