GREECE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1916, Page 5

GREECE.

TROUBLE IMPENDING. ARMED RESISTANCE TO ALLIES' demands. RIOTING AT LABISSA . Alliens, Nor. 27. T'io Allies nrr- preparing for eventimlitifs. J)i.s(.i 11 j|,j„ ljoju<v placed on all Vuni/ilist bnihliugs. A Royalist friend warned Router's correspond* cut thnt iic had better remove to somi: unknown destination before December 1 Die eorrer,pendent does not seriously believe there will be trouble, but Royalist ollicers openly talk of a massacre if the Allies have recourse to force.

London, Nov. 27. The Pall Mall Gazette says that th*i reason why th-t Allies continue the farce of treating Ccrstantine and his Government as anything but an enemy is beyond our comprehension. Received Xov. 20, 12..10 a.m. London, Xov. 28. The Morning Post's Athens' correspondent states that the Government, the King, and the Staff concur in the suggested aimed resistance to Admiral de I'ournet's demand for the surrender of arms,

Replying to the reservists, the Army and the new Military League have subscribed to a declaration, condemning the officers for joining the revolutionaries, and agreeing to never recognise them.

AYar material is being scattered, rifles distributed to reservists, gjuns concealed by being buried, and placed wlicre they can best fire on the Allies. Received Nov. 2(1, 1-2.30 a.m. Athens, Nov. 2S.

The reservists at Larissa' rioted on Sunday, They were armed with revolvers and rifles, and were breaking the windows of Venizelist establishments, also firing in the air indiscriminately. The gendarmes and police made 110 effort to prevent the rioting. Reservists held up a trainload of armaments for 'Piloponr.esus, seized the rifles and guns, and paraded the streets. Times Sen-ice. Receive:! Nov. 20, 1.33 a.m. Athens, Nov. 2S. Two hundred French sailors have land-

The Ministers state that the Government will reply negatively to Admiral de Fournet's latest note.

Admiral de Fournet visited King Constantino awl emphasised the gravity 0; the situation. Subsequently he called on several threatened Venizelist merchants and promised them protection

CrvEEK THREATS,

A MODERN ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S EVE PROMISES).. Reecived Nov. 2S, 10.,'50 p.m. Lo:idon, Nov. iiS. The Daily Telegraph's Athens correspondent statu; ' that the Military Council, whereat all trusted Royalist officers were present, decided on plain action in the event of the Allied attempt to seize anus. On a- bugle call the reservists will sack and burn marked Venizelist establishments, and use firearms where necessary. Therefore, a modern St. Bartholomew's Eve, with Venizelists as the victims, may result.

A Foreign Office official states that when the French fire the first s'hot all promin'-.ii Venizelist homes wi'l be blown up. The Government interprets Admiral de Fovrnet's time limit as marking an Allied surrender.

SUPPORT FOR VENIZELOS. STATEMENT IX THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Reuter Service, deceived Nov. 28, 8 p.m. London, Nov. 28. In the House of Commons, replying .to criticisms upon British policy in Greece and statements of insufficient r.upport being given to M. Venizolos, Lord Hugh Cecil urged the necessity for the study of the views of the Allies, who were framing a policy. He declared that the aliianee had hitherto been conducted with unprecedented harmony und an amazing absence of friction. He denied that Britain was bolstering up King Constantine for private or personal reasons, and declared that we. would never abandon M. Venizelos.