GREECE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1917, Page 5

GREECE.

STILI, DEFIANT. i London, -Tsui .IS. The Some correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that, in accordance wii'.i ' the Entonte't ultimatum, the Greei: Government has removed Gaßaris. the mil:- * tfary Commander at Athens, but the appointment of General; Yanakils.>s as his suecessor is a sheer -ict of defiance. General Yanakitsas, When War Minister, negotiated the surrender of Fo-.-fc Rupel to the Germans and has since been bno of the prime movers-in anti-Entente intrigues. The Russian Minister it Athens has iietificd the Russian eolony which has taken refuse at Rome that their return is impossible at present) '. SARRAIL PREPARED FOR ACTION*. * United Service. London, Jan .18. ■ Sir. Jeffries, writing from Athens, naya Ml at in the event of the non-acceptai:ce 'of the Allies' ultimatum General Surrail (hadprepared to destroy the* Greek Army. . AH the plans for action in the event of the entry of the Greeks against the Allies were based on the co-operation ot . the Germans, and if General von Matkessen had been at Monastir the reply to the ultimatum would perhaps have been different As it was even the arch-German Jf. Gpunaris counselled its acceptance. -KELEASE OF VENIZELISTS. ." . _ " Athens, Jan. IS. The ' Government released the Veiii--1 jelisis on Wednesday.