GREECE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1916, Page 5

GREECE.

A REIGN OF TERROR. VEXIZELISTS PERSECUTED. HUNS' BASE TRICKERY 'AND Received Dee. 13, 10.40 p.m. London, Dec. 13. A special correspondent of the Times, in an uncensored dispatch from Greece, states that anarchy still- prevails. The inquisition, against \ r enizelists continue|. Judicial functionaries are conducting daily house-to-house searches, and are imprisoning increasing numbers of Venizelists. It is reported the prisoners aje. shot at night. A reign of terror exists, surpassing the worst record of Abdul Hamid. The Allies are still unable to protect their Greek friends. The Germanophile Press publish a forged political letter in Venizelos' name as proof of an alleged anti-Royalist's plot, in order to bolster up the abominable Royalist outrages and the attacks the Allied troops. Die Government -is complacently permitting their Press organs-to launch every conceivable accusation against M. Venizelos and his supporters, knowing that tho Venizelist journalists are unable to reply, as th-sy are all imprisoned, and their property destroyed. No Venipaper has been published since December 1. The Government organs are taking advantage of the Allies not halving 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 evei) the lesson to abstain henceforth from interfering with Greece and her interna} affairs.

CONSTANTINE'S TREACHERY. GREEK ARMY CORPS ON 'IHE ' MARCH. TO ATTACK ALLIES. Recevied Dec. 13, 5.45 p.m. 1 Paris, Dej. 12. A wireless message from Bern? states that information from an official German source is to the effect that the commander of the Greek Army Corps, who iB nominally interned at Goerlitz, has received King Constantine's orders to hold himrelf in readiness to co-operate with the Germano-Bulgars against General Sarrail. Preparations have been going on during the past week for the transport of the- corps towards Macedonia, and it i 3 believed it is now en route. The troops have never been treated as interneds, but have received systematic training under German instructors. Indications from the outset pointed to King C'onstantine and the Kaiser having arranged to use them against the Allies at the first opportune moment.

. FOSTERING TREACHERY. Paris, Dec. 11. The Petit Paris-ion reports that Count Ti«n, in a speech, said that the Austrian and German Govbrnments have invited King Constantine to attack General Sarrail. Tile 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.. ATTEMPT TO GAIN TGI?,, London, Dec, 12. The Daijy Telegraph correspondent at the Piraeus wires that King Copstantine and the military are trying to gain time. The rest of the population is alarmed a l , the pros-peot of war with the Entente. Allied subjects have left Atliens and are living i:i requisitioned boats sit the Piraeus and at Ematorini, only the Ministers remair.Mig at Athens. Six thousand Venkelista have taken refuge at the Piraeus, as the arrests cohtinue The Government states that it is willing to make reparation and to dismiss certain army officers, but is opposed to the reestablishment of Allied control or disarmament. It has hurriedly transported to Athens wheat stored at the Piraeus ________ p. MOBILISATION ORDERED. Rome, Dec. 12. King Constantino has ordered n general mobilisation.