MARCHED OUT.
ALLIED TROOPS LEAVE ATHENS.
Australian and N Z. Cable Association
ATHENS, December 3.
The position here is still obscure. The indications are that tA.I lined detachments were landed as a measure of precaution, with orders not to seize the war material which the King in October promised to surrender to the Allies as a compensation for that delivered to Bulgaria and Germany. Meanwhile 'Greek troops suddenly assumed the aggressive, and the events cabled followed. Subsequently COO Anglo-Egyptian marines marched out of Zappeion, with all equipment, under a strong guard, en route to the Piraeus, A detachment of Italian marines, who took refuge in .the Archaeological School, were permitted quietly to depart under Greek escort.
A Vcnizelist newspaper states that the provinces are excited. (Allied supporters have been expelled from the control of many railway stations and telegraph offices.
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Northern Advocate, 5 December 1916, Page 3
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