GREEK CRISIS.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13664, 5 September 1916, Page 3

GREEK CRISIS.

soldier not in sympathy with the revolution may apply for a permit to remain in residence; otherwise he will be arrested. The revolutionaries have sent detach" tiients to Vodemi and other towns lo encourage the enrolment of volunteers. Many men are joining, oven from Old Greece. GERMANS LEAVING ATHENS. SIGNIFICANT REPORT. ("Renter's Telegrams.") LONDON, September 2. ilr J, N. .1. 'Jeffries, Athens correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, slates that many Germans have lied from Alliens. THE FINAL SCENES, CONSTAN'HNE COMPLETELY HUMBLED. GERMAN PRESri RESIGNED TO ITS l-'AVE. (Australian nnil M.Z. C.iWc Association.) Received September 1, 5.5 p.m, LONDON', September 3. The Alliens correspondent of the Daily Chniiiielc slates that; King Con••hnline lias expressed his belief'in Hie expediency of Greece abandoning hor neutrality. Saturday was an eventful dai- and saw the political situation moving towards a satisfactory solution.. HnNi sides have tacitly agreed to «ive support to the Zaimis'Cabinet, it will

•ENTENTE NOTE TO GREECE. VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM. HELPLESSNESS OF MONARCH. ("Renter's Telegrams. I ,') ATHENS, September 3, The Entente Ministers are handing M, Zaimis a Note thin afternoon. The action of the Entente in expected to clear np the situation withotiu delay. . The Joint Note presented to the Greek Government demands: The Allied control of the post and telegraphs, including the wireless plants, on the ground that i;hey have been used to convey information to the enemy; The expulsion of enemy agents, 011 the grounds of Bribery and espionage, and that the necessary measures he ! taken against, their Greek accomplices. It is understood that Greece will offer no objection to the acceptance of the demands of the Entente.

THE VOICE OF HELLENISM. M, VENIZELOS URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION. GREECE'S UIJIQUK OPPORTUNITY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association), LONDON, September 3. M. Venizelos, in a message to the Sunday Times, says: "Although I am deeply grieved that Greece has so much delayed paying due contribution to the struggle against Prussian * militarism, atie! for .the independence of the.;smaller States, I ■ trust that the influence of Euma- | nian intervention will render fur- ' ther persistence In the policy of neutrality absolutely impossible, N S and tllat Greece at tne earliest f\ ( Moment will join the camp of her I traditional friends in order to accomplish her own national ideals,

' "Who can doulit; that Bulgaria may now seek a separate peace, and who does not understand that if this happens Wore Greece joins the Allien, the development will mean our permanent extinction?" PROGRESS OF REVOLUTION. ■•;-PROVISIONAL noVJTCNMEXT IX .AfACEDfWA. RIGOROUS WI'JIODS. r V '(Australian ami N.Z. Cabin Association,) PARTS, September ,1, The Salonika correspondent n f (he Petit Parisien says: The National Committee of Defence has proclaimed n provisional jrnvonimenl in Macedonia. ; All the troops, Rendnnnorie, cavalry! and artillery have adhered to |jie\ national movement, \ The Committee of National Defence is exerting its authority in a delcrmincd manner. 11. has forbidden. Greeks between nineleen and forly-fivo years |o leave Macedonia, ami is'innliili'sim; the class of twenty-one years of including Mohammedan's and Jews,' whom the Government had exempted, A fewhave presented themselves, ;i,„| || lo gendarmes are arreslinj; I lie absentees, The revolutionary commandant a I Salonika has authorised soldiers ami officers to wear a blue and white armlet as a badge of the revolution, Those J} not wearing this will be considered reactionaries and may be arrested. Any

thus cease to he merely an interregnum cabinet and become a political cabinet, enjoying the full confidence of the. Crown Mini the complete support of it. Ycnizelos and his party, „\l. Venizelos equally with King Constantino approves of the abandonment of neutrality. .\f. Venizelos, desiring the welfare of the country, IhoreforeJie is prepared to sink self to achieve a realisation of the policy for which he has long been striving.

M. Venizelos says; "Wo may look before long to see the last Balkan State fighting on the side of the Allies."

Kiiijf Constantino jjave an audience with Urn Jlillish Minister on Saturday. King ('onsiautiiic was very ill. He asked to lie taken aboard the Royal yacht. II is understood that the Entente Xole is mainly directed for tho removal of Huron Schenk, and the German propagandists associated with him.

Many (Annans have already departed. The Cerman Minister (Count Mirmarch) ile]/arled in a motor car. Tlip Allied Fleet has not blockaded Pirwiis, and Hie sea |rmle lias not beenmolesteil.

The French (lag has been hoisted on fight Austro-Ocrinan interned vessels, J'eceived September -I, ">,:> p.m. COI'FXIIAGKX, September 4. 'Hie (I'ennau newspapers art prepari"!,' the public, for \w oiilry of (irei'it declaring that King Constantiuc, in order to prevent a civil war. must join the Entente.

ATIIHXS, Se|dember.",. Moved by I he prevailing spirit of un rest, the convicts in the citadel at Sal""lk;i '"iitinied and attacked Iheir war ■lers. A few rille shots restored order.

PLAYING THE FOOL. CMJIAXrs lIFAD I.VTIJIGt'Fi:. OF.FIFS Tilt! AITIIORITIEB. (Australian ami N. 7,, V.;\W Assnriallmu received September 4, al lll.'lil p.m I.ONDOX, September 1, Tlie AHiriK correspondent of Ihe Daily Telegraph says: Baron Schenk i-s apparently determined to play the tool. He has not yet left Athens and is baricaded in liis house with twenty bravoes and a liberal supply of hand S reua(les - . ±&m