WAR CLOUD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9811, 12 June 1914, Page 5

WAR CLOUD.

TURKO-GRECIAN RELATIONS STRAINED. RUSSIA APPREHENDS AN * OUTBREAK. 90,000 GREEKS DRIVEN OUT C)V TURKEY. (Tina and Stonei Sun Sbbvicbb.) (Hi &LBOTBIO TeUQHAPH—COPYBIQHT 1 •Pm Puw AiaonuTion ) Received June 12, 9 a m ,• ATHENS, June 11. the expulsion of Greeks from Turkev is causing a continuanco of excitemem Apprehension is felt in Russia that war is likely between Turkev and Greece ST. PETERSBURG, June U. M. Sazonoff (Russian Foreign Ministor) has started for Bucharest. It is believed an important conference will be held to consider steps to prevent an outbreak of Turco-Greek hostilities. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 11. A strict censorship is imposed on telegrams. The Turks are harassing Greek residents on the Dardanelles end Anatolian coast. Thousands of Greeks fled and much of their property was sold at a sacrihee or destroyed. Moslems broached and destroyed wines and spirits in Greek villages on the Dardanelles. Ninety thousand refuges a have reached Salonika from Thrace. GREECE SUSPICIOUS OF BULGARIA. HER ARMY READY. ATHENS, June 11. The authorities ato suspicious that a connection exists between the simultaneous o-ut-on Greeks in Turkey and Bulgaria. M. Venezelog (Greek Premier), in the Chamber, stated that the army would bo raie-rd to half a million within five yenr=. Its strength, meanwhil*?, is sufficient to cope with immediate eventualities.