GREECE REPORTED TO HAVE DECIDED ON WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16326, 5 September 1916, Page 7

GREECE REPORTED TO HAVE DECIDED ON WAR.

KING AND STATESMEN AGREE ON NATIONAL POLICY. VENIZELIST PARTY SUPPORTING THE GOVERNMENT. GERMAN PRESS ANTICIPATES DECLARATION OF WAR. Australian and N.Z. Calls. .'Racked 5.33 p.m.) LONDON. September 3. The Athens correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that King Constantine has expressed his belief in the expediency of Greece abandoning neutrality. Saturday was the eventful day. « The political situation is moving towards a satisfactory solution. Both sides have tacitly agreed to give support to M. Zaimis's Cabinet, which will thus cease to be merely an interregnum Cabinet, and become a political Cabinet enjoying the full confidence of tho Crown and the complete support of the Venizelist party. M. Venizelos, equally with Constantine, approves of tho abandonment of neutrality. Desiring the welfare of the country before place and power, M. Venizelos is prepared to sink self in order to achieve the realisation of the policy for which he has long been striving. The correspondent adds: "We may look before long to see the last Balkan State fighting on the side of the allies, moved by the prevailing spirit of unrest." King Constantine received the British Minister in audience on Saturday. King Constantino was very ill and asked to be taken aboard the Royal yacht. The allied fleet has not blockaded Piraeus. Tho sea trade has not been molested. The French flag has been hoisted on eight Austrian and German interned vessels. deceived 5.35 p.m.) COPENHAGEN. September 3. The German newspapers are preparing the public for Greece's entry into the war. They declare that Constantine, in order to prevent a civil war, must join the Entente.