IN GREECE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1916, Page 5

IN GREECE.

THE CABINET RESIGNS

ALLIES'. TERMS ACCEPTED,

THE QUESTION OF INTERVENTION 1 . fN.Z. PRESS ASSOCIATION —COrYHICUT.I ATHENS, September 12. i M. Zaiinis and his Cabinet have tendered their resignation to King Constantine. Following this it was announced that Greece had accepted all the demands made to dier by iho Entente. It appears that the retiring Premier admitted that the Allies were fully entitled to send their fleet to Piraeus in view of the Gennan-Bulgar advance on Ka\>.la. M Zaimis takes almost as strong a view as M. Venizelos regarding the necessity of Greece co-operating' with the Allies. The action of the rowdies outside the French Legation had no real effect. The problem is already closed by the Government's acceptance of Allies' demands. M. Venizelos telegraphed to the Roumanian Opposition leader, M. Filipescu, congratulating Rouma nia on her entry into the war. M. Zaimis in submitting the Cabinet s resignation declared the internal incidents interfered in dealing with the external situation. LONDON, September 12. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Athens states: "The Allies are averse to the discussion of conditions or terms in order to secure Greece' co-operation. The Greek Minister at Paris was informed that if Greece seks to cooperate she must waive questions i iiik erning conditions and compensations. It is understood that the Allies are willing to do thnir utmost to furnish nrbt'ir;. < -■-.■ :. nt hi the event of Greece join lag them."

M! ■:! • ''.'■ ' >: 'h ■ : '■■ ''"■„ SPAIN. NATURAL ALLIANCE WIT ft" THE ENTENTE. Received {Lis day at 0.15 a.m. i LONDON, September 12. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Madrid states that Senor Antonio Maura, in the course of a speech at Sanfc Ador, said that he believed the interests of Spain and England reconcilable. He consideerd an Anglo-Ffrancq-Spanish alliance natural and unavoidable. The speech, caused consternation among the pro-Germans. Lord Norm'.:lilie, who ig visiting Spain, states (hut there is a, widespread German propaganda. The Spaniard; 1 ;, he says, are convinced of Germany's invincibility and of her ultimate success. Tin' Spanish church, aristocracy, and court official."/ support the GcriTiiiia ca,u.:e. Some 80,000 German refugees are -everywlr%'= favorably received. Wireless? daily floods tlio country with lie;?, whik l : there is the most amazing ignorance regarding the Allies, particularly Britain, due to our failure to meet and confute the propaganda. SERBIAN PARLIAMENT, OPENED IX FOREIGN LAND. ATHENS, September 12. Seven Ministers and eightyeight Deputies attended the opening of the Serbian Tarliament at Corfu. M. Passith, the Premier, expressed his conviction that Macedonia would be recovered in its entirety. The President declared that he was convinced that they would sneedily return to their own country.

I-N BELGIUM.

SEIZURE OF GOLD

Received this day at 12.15 p.m. AMSTERDAM,- September 12. General von Biasing (German Governor-Genera] of Belgiiim) confiscated £30,000,000 belongiusr

to*the National Bank of Belgium. This amount was put into circulation in Belgium in consequence of the lifting of the moratorium. General von Bissiug decided on this step six months ago, apparently for the express purpose of annexing the proceeds for war purposes. It is noteworthy that this brigandage coincides with the unsuccessful issue of the war loan in Berlin. Two directors of the National Bank of Belgium refused to sanction the robbery and. were deported to Germany. A Belgian communique says : ,Our airmen on Wednesday flew for three hours a distance of IS7 miles in the darkness, dropping proclamations. Another on Thursday flew over Antwerp and observed excited crowds in the public squares. Apparently owing to continued desertions the Germans are evacuating the villages oil the Bel-gian-Dutch frontier. SLACKERS.. ROUNDING THEM UP. Received this day at 11.10 a.m. LONDON, September 12. In pursuance of the policy of capturing slackers, the military authorities raided Marylebone Station. Hi en apparently of military age passed the barrier and were roped off in a space, where three officers inspected their registration cards and other papers. Many were detained for two and a-half hours. Out of 130 arrests only one was without a proper explanation. Forty arrests were made at a football match at Reading. All '.were;: liberated. Eighty arrests were made at a boxing tournament ft Woolwich, Qaq. ekeker to discovered,

AMERICA'S WAR TRADE.

HUGE INCREASES

Received this day at 8.50 a.ru NW YOKK, .September 11.

. TJmre has been an enormous increase in the shipments of meat to Europe. The figures for the fiscal year 1916 were 1,330,000,000 weight' compared with 000 last year and 455,000,000 m 1914-. An official report says thai Canada's exports of meat have increased five times since the war. There are also great increases in Argentine and Australia. The export of refined sugar in seven months of 1916 was more than a billion pounds, being valued at 60,000,000 dollars. The figures exceed the aggregate oi the previous twenty-live years. The exports were mostly to Europe. The United Sta!:\--' im-

portations of raw sugar are expected to total five millions. GERMANY'S MAM SUPPLY. EVIDENCE TEAT IT IS FAILING. _ BEIJInE, 'September 12. A wireless says that Germany has called up the 1920 class, viz., boys of sixteen. TURKS TO THE RESCUE. GERMANS HURRYING THEM UP. : COPENHAGEN, September 12, A German Military Commission has arrived at Constantinople and is hastening the despatch of Turks to European fronts. TEBMS f;F PEACE. KING OF BAY ARIA'S IDEAS AMSTERDAM, September 12. A telegram from Nuremburg says that Die King of Bavaria speaking at a banquet, said: do not know when the war wiii end, but we do know that certainly . there will be no pe-.c liieh will not leave us better off than we were.

VOTES FOR SOLDI"

COPiING THE Nr,W ■ LAiVD MEASURE. ■• Received this day at 10 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. The Assembly agreed to the expediency of introducing a Bill to give votes by proxy at general elections to all soldiers at the front irrespective of age. The Bill provides that a soldier shall not vote for a candidate, bnt for a party. Labor votes will be handed to Mr Holman, Liberal to Mr Wade, and Progressive to the Speaker, who will allot them to candidates. AUSTRALIAN REINFORCEMENTS. HOW THEY ARE RAISED. MELBOURiYE, This Day. Mr Hughes announced that drafts of reinforcements to mainlain live divisions at the front will be obtained in. the States on a population basis. No Stale will be called upon to make up the deficiency of another State. BRITISH MAILS.. SWEDISH PAPERS DISAPPOINTED. COPENHAGEN, September 12. Swedish newspapers are clis: p pointed at Britain's Note dealing with the detention of mails. THROWING UP THE SPONGE HUNGARY'S DESIRE FOR PEACE. Since tho'appointment of Count Andrsuisy as Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, some curiosity has been aroused regarding 'tile purpose* of a. visit lie recently paid to Switzerland. A correspondent ot' the-London Daily Telegraph says : "There is no doubt Count Andra&sy paid a furtive visit to Switzerland, for lie was seen there by many who know him personally. What his object". \vp„s is a mystery, but immediately a?' ?■ his departure articles, were supplied tV m Hungarians in Switzerland to a Swiss; paper, sug- <<■ -sting that Hungary should be assisted to break loose- frera . Austria, i'i'i.irg'i.r:a.;Tf3 wanted nothmv less than liberation of the country from the Austrian incubus, and termination of the war, in which they were made to fight; only in the interests of Austria and Germany. Amid indescribable tumults in the Hungarian Chamber, deputies cried out, asking why Hungary should continue to fight in tins war. The desire was also expressed :',nt, Hungary should become indepen. dent of Austria and that it should form a separate nation entirely, with strictlv Hungarian territory only, comprising 12,000,00,0 to 15,000,000 soulsi, and living its', national life, in peace and quiet, apart from the ambitions of other European nations?,. Persons who saw Count jAndrassy in Switzerland state that he came on an. official mission to examine the ground once more and see if a separate peace i. twee,, Franco and Germany _ were not possible. France once more indignantly rejected any overtures not ad. dressed to the Allies collectively, and Count Andraray, who had hoped as- a patriotic Hungarian to act as peacemaker, returned to Euda-PesUi disappointed, like so- many before him.