POSITION IN GREECE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15769, 9 December 1916, Page 9

POSITION IN GREECE.

ALLIED BLOCKADE.

TILL REPARATION IS GIVETv

(By Cable.—Prec* Association.—Copyright.) (Australian aJid N.Z. C*ble Association.) (Received December Bth, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON. December 7. The Allied Governments have decided to blockade Greece until they are given

reparation, I'er the outrages against th* Allies an,; : Ycnezolistt* in Athens. BLOCKADE (7PKXS AT ONCE. .Router's Telegrams.) | PARIS. December 7. i It is officially announced that a I blockade of Greece will begin to-inor row. ! REAL SEXTIMEXTS SHOWN. ' (Auttralian ar.J N.Z. Cable Association.) ■ (Received December Sth. 9.30 p.m j | ROME. December ?. 1 Athens wa s decorated with flags for the fall of Bucharest. All the French and English have quitted tho city. BRITISH QUARTERS RAIDED. ! IjOXDOX, December 7. j An Athens report states that during J tlu> absence of Captain Mackenzie, head I of tho British Intelligence Department. ! his house was sacked and manuscript | and other articles stolen. i NEED FOR ACTIO*. i AVHF.RK IS VOX FALKKXHAYX ? j i"The Time*.') | LONDON, December 7. j "Tho Times,'' in a leading article urging the need of uromutiy dealing • with the Greek danger, says:-—"The disappearance of Oeueral von Falkenhayn's name from the German ollk-ial reports is siuistoHv significant. V.'ith the Seibiau railway system at his disposal, -» is not difficult to perceive where he will next emerge. The Allies operating from Salonica are holding an extended and possibly a vulnerable front. j Our military intelligence appears to be faulty. Vf'o had been told that the Greek Army was inefficient and badly equipped: now it, is revealed as sufH- , cicntly numerous and formidable to oxercise a serious inlluence on tho position in Macedonia." BRUTAL OUTRAGES ! ,Iw2uier'6 T<.'kgTiima.j ! LONDON, December 7. i Router's correspondent sends information of a dastardly attack ou the septuagenarian M:iyor of Athens, xim house was lired on from tho residence of I'rinco Yp*ilanti. Master of tho King's Dorse, and the Princess of Ypsilanti, who is a Hungarian, was 1 seen encouraging tho soldiers. The house was broken into, tho Mayor spat ui>on and wounded with a bayonet, beaten with rifle butts, his bcartt partly torn out, and ho was dragged into " tho street, while tho Princes** stood at a window clapping her hands as the Mavor whs taken off for examination. There, are also shocking accounts of the condition and troatmont of General Corakas, who is described - as resembling a cor.pso.