"VIVE LA FRANCE."

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"VIVE LA FRANCE."

DON'T TRUST GREEC2C

. LONDON, Nov. 17. Dr Dillon, in the '"Daily Telegraph,'! says:—The Balkan Peninsula will remain the centro of political interest until the danger of further treachery by neutral States has been . definitely dispelled. I write with first-hand knowledge- of the facts, not all of which arc as yet realised. Tho circumstance is not yet apprenhended that a league of monarcha, prearranged, by the Kaiser, was completed in principle before the war broke out, hut tho original conception was more comprehensive than the final achievement. Germany formed a syndicate of Kings, thus forestalling the unsuspecting Entente Powers. The Teutons still were not contented, for they knew what slippery customers the Balkan peoples are. . "'I affirm that the Entente policy of chivalrous kindness and' delicate tact is

wholly misplaced. Assurances: of benevolent neutrality from M. Skoulondis are less solid than M. Venizelos's promises. M-. Skouloudis is not the spokesman of the Parliament and the nation. He is merely ths nominee of a Pn>ssinn field-marshal, who is systematically doing violence to Greece's constitution and sacrificing her national honour in order to redeem a.promise to his Prussian brother-in-law. M. Venizeloa to-dny is a mere private individual If there was any truth or honour left in the governing circles of Greece, M. Vonizolos' and his colleagues would now be in powp.r, but there is none. King Constantino is determined at all costs to create :i Germnnapbie Parliament, hostilo to the Entente. Even if the Greek people again

arm ounce their determination to do their duty, this ■Prussian field-marshal will still execute his brother-in-law's designs. Effective constraint is now the only method to he employed with any hope of success."