GREEK CRISIS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17285, 28 September 1916, Page 7

GREEK CRISIS.

THE REVOLUTION. GOVERNMENT DOOMED. Reuters Telegrams. ATHENS, September 26. General Moschopolous, Chief of the General Staff, has resigned. Everything indicates that the Government wil} not last long.

GREEK DESTROYER LEAVES ATHENS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 27, 5.30 p-m.) LONDON, September 26. The “Daily Chronicle” correspondent at Athens says that the Greek destroyer Lonchi quitted the fleet, and readied the open sea. It ig believed that she is bound for Canea or Salonika to participate in the national move* ment. (The Lonchi was built in 1906 a* Yarrow. Her displacement is 390 tons and her designed speed 32.5 knots.)

VENEZELOS’S DECISION. EXCITEMENT IN ATHENS. ASSURED OF POWERFUL SUPPORT. (Received September 27, 8.55 p.m.) ATHENS. September 27. M. Venezelos’b move was a bombshell to the public. .Newspapers were bought by excited groups in the streets, who discussed the possibilities. Venezelos is absolutely assured of a powerful following, probably sufficient to force the situation. Venezelos and a dozen supporters secretly left Athens in motor-cars at three in tho morning, and reached Phaloron Bay by a round-about routo. They embarked, on the speedy little Greek liner Hesperia, with Admiral Condouriotis, who is popular, hero with all Hellenes. Before leaving, Venezelos attended a meeting of his principal followers, and declared that the events at Kavalahad caused him to lose hope that the Greek Government would act with sufficient promptnessto secure the honour and interests of Greece. It was, thoreforo, necessary to act himsolf in a higher capacity* than that of leader of the Liberals. The conflict in which ho might eventually ho forced to engage would ho outside tho constitutional limits. Ho freed his supporters of their party ties, and left thorn free to follow their consciences.

CORFU COMMANDANT JOINS

REVOLT.

ATHENS, September 26,

General Soannon, commandant of tho Corfu garrison, has gone to Salonika. Ho is participating in th 6 revolution. 1

MEMORIAL TO KING.

URGED TO ABANDON NEUTRALITY.

(Received Sentember 27, 9.10 p.m.) ATHENS, September 27. The report of General Moschopoulos’s resignation was premature. . He . and five hundred officers have memoralised the King urging him to depart from neutrality.