THE BALKANS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 13 October 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

BROUGHT TO HEEL

-■■o".'•.'. ■-■- ■■ - r .. . ■ Entente ultimatum accepted

FLEET HANDED OVER TO ALLIES NO DISTURBANCE OCCASIONED. LONDON® Oct. 12. The "Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent says that Cabinet received Admiral Dufcurnet's ultimatum at midmght, demanding the handing over of the fleet, the arsenal in Keratsini Gulf, and the northern railway, also; the control of the Piraeus and the disarmament ox three forts. The Government, under protest, acceded to the ultimatum Beiore its expiry at noon. . I The smaller vessels will be handed j over to the Provisional Government at Salonika and "the larger .will be disarmed. :' ; s Admiral Dufcurnet's note was received directly after the Lambros Cabinet had been sworn in. After the Cabi- j net meeting .King Constantirie motored ■' 'hastily from Tatoi and called upon the principal Ministers. Negotiations were continued untiLthree in the morning, when the decision to surrender the fleet was reached;.. - The Allies were formally notified of the decision before 12 o'clock. ■ . ,■■ 1 During the afternoon the Greek crews of "the warships disembarked and the breeches of the guns - weie removed. French crews were placed on the smaller ships, and French; guards placed on the bigger ships, the Kilkis, JLemnos and Averoff, which left Keratsini Gulf with skeleton crews. .. : . . The Greek naval men submitted without incident. ' The railway was still unoccupied late • in the afternoon. . The Telegraph's Athens correspond-. ent states that, following. the result of the Allies' ultimatum, the Greek fleet surrendered to the Allies. ATHENS, Oct. 12. The Allied demands were dictated by '"the disposition of the Fleet, which menaced the Allied squadron, and by the concentration of troops in the interior, which constituted a danger to ■ the Allied.armyv It was reported in London yesterday that trenches were being dug along the Piraeus-Larissa railway; that the King's palace at Larissa was being prepare- 3; and that fifty thousand Greek troop? were concentrated there. The Allies', demands ~ followed hot upon these rumors and aroused a profound sensation throughout Greece, but the whole were carried out without much excitement. At the Piraeus' Greece had 33 shipß, excluding 14 destroyers, 'six modern torpedoers, four gunboats, and two submarines.