UNHAPPY GREECE.

Evening Star, Issue 16092, 18 April 1916, Page 3

UNHAPPY GREECE.

ALL BELLIGERENTS PRESS HER

SERBIANS' TRANSPORT ARRANGED,

LONDON,' April 17. The ' Daily Chronicle's' correspondent (Mr M. Donohoe), reporting from Athens, states that excitement runs high regarding the transport of Serbians on the railways. It was originally proposed that the Serbians were to be shipped from Corfu, and three days later disembark at Salonika, but the voyage being full of peril to the troopships, tho Allies determined on the sea journey of 12 hours to Patras, and thence to ta,ko the men by thei Peloponnesian railway via Athens, To this proposal the Greek Government offered strong opposition, whereupon the Allies informed MT. Skouloudis that official sanction was immaterial, as the Allies would not permit the Greeks to interfere with their plan of operations. Learning of the scheme, Austria and Germany 1 emphatically intervened, telling Greece that they would regard it as an unfriendlv act if she remained passive and permitted* the Serbians to reach the firing line.

The Allies then iudicated that they also would have recourse to strong measures if the Greeks thwarted their designs.

M. Skonloudis is now seeking a peaceable'way of escape from the dilemma.

15ASE IN GRETE.

ATHENS, April 17. Allied 'battleships have arrived at Suda Bay (north-west coast of Crete), where they are apparently croatmg a naval base similar to that at Argostoli, in Cephalonia.