PRO-GERMAN LEADERS DEPART FROM GREECE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 22 June 1917, Page 5

PRO-GERMAN LEADERS DEPART FROM GREECE.

ALLIED POWERS BOUND TO MAINTAIN MONARCHYLONDON, June 21. The Allied High Commissioner in Athens, M. Jonnart, has ordered thedeportatiou of sixty political and military suspects and severa! Germans, while 10:5 persons will be removed to places from which escapo is impossible. Amongst the former class arc M. Gournaris, a former Bremier, General Dousmanis, Colonel Metaxis, Colonel Sayiae, the leader of the. Reservist Leagues, and M. Tivienatos, ringleader of the disturbances in Athens in December. The latter class includes M. Dragomis, M. Skouloudis, and M. :,ambros, all former Premiers, Colonel Skatigos, chief of the General Staff, General Hazzopoulos, formerly Minister for War, and Dr. Gcroulanos, Palace physician, and his' German wife. The proclamation of the new King which M. Zaimis counter-signed, is severely criticised in Salonika, especially the passage wherein he spoke of accomplishing the "sacred mission entrusted to mc by my father." Admiral Coudouritis, one of the Yenizelist Triumvirate, says the proclamation must be withdrawn. — (A, and N.Z. Cable.) Replying to a series of questions regarding Greece, Mr. A. J. Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated in the House of Commons that the guaranteeing Bowers were bound by the treaty of 1863 to maintain the monarchy. The treaty provided that the Greek Crown rhould pass to sons, although it did not stipulate that the succession should be to tho. eldest son. He knew nothing about a report that Constantine was coming to Britain. Mr. Balfour added that Sir Francis Elliot, British Ambassador at Athens, had vacated his position because it was undesirable he should occupy a subordinate position to M. Jonnart, who wa« in charge of British and French diplomacy. The Allifie took the view that Constantine had acted unconstitutionally in dismissing M. Venizelos. and governing without a Parliament.—(Reuter.) GREEK FEARS OF ITALIAN OCCUPATION. (Received 11.46 a.m-) ATHENS, June 21. An official report states that a. French detachment has landed at Preveza on the west coast of Greece, at the entrance to the Gulf of Arta. The landing caused feelings of relief among the Greeks, who view the occupation as a guarantee that the Italian, occupation of Epirus is merely a provisional step. The French, landing anticipated tho occupation of Preveza by three thousand Italians, who had ajxeady arrived in the vicinity.— (A. and N.Z. CableJt