GREECE

Nelson Evening Mail, 25 September 1916, Page 5

GREECE

GREEK REVOLUTIONARIES FOR-' THE FRONT. I Australian and 1 N.Z. Cable Association.) SALONIKA, Sept. 23 % A batrtaEon of Greek, revolutionaries paraded preparatory to going to the front., .•...--, General Ziobrakakis exhorted themVtb expel the invaders. Women threw flowers from windows. "KINGDOM OF GREECE MERELY ' A-NAME."-* :•:•:-•,. ;. . CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY v -,-:GONE;-"~; - -.;- ■■ivY LONDON, Sept. 22. icMri W. Jeffries,' 'telegraphing from Athens, says the Kingdom of Greece is nferely a name. " Athens no' lottgefr governs Salonika, Lemmos, Samos, arid Mttylene; Independence proclamations have been issued by Epirus- and Larissa, and following suit are Crete and the Cyclades Isles, while Phocis and Acarriania. ate wavering. Only Athens and PelbjSonnesus remain. . -. . : ■•..-,.,.•- --The walls of Athens are placarded with the newspapers' last appeal to the King:: "O, King; O. King; abdicate.", The Astyr journal ipublishes a declaration Iby a former ' royal courtier t "We have made a revolution and disobeyed the commands of-the King- and the -Government because of the treason . of Kavala. The magnitude of the. catastrophe is impelling me and other, hitherto fanatical enemies of the Liberal party to join the rising.' . • - .' •- 'The placards have not been removed; because King Cbnstantihe's authority and Prestige are'.practically gone. Quantities of arms ax-e stored unhindered in private houses. . Kinw Constantine and M. Venezelos are holding co-equal ■powers, the ', ■. King not daring to challenge M. Veneiejos's acts.-- '. '''•.■'■■ ■■■■'?■ . King Constantine'® rash promise to the Kaiser that there would be ho intervention is responsible fox* th% whole trouble. He appointed . MM. Gounaris and Skoulodis because they were not likely to do anythingi and subsequently he has been temporising continuously. He saw the tide turning,, but stubbornly imitated King Canute, patronising the Reservist League and pandering to the ahti-venezelists. M.Zaimisi. resigned because he was over-ridden 'by Streit; Stratos, -and the other Kaiserites and. pro-Germans!>rsur-rounding King- .Constantine. rSt)*eit tually forms the Ministries, cusly and ooSnly Stating Wai there'!sx»

need to -worry about the fleet at Piraeus. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent says the Government, suspecting that three hundred of the crew of the Averoff "were preparing to join the Salonika movement, ordered the rest o£ the fleet to surround the cruiser.