PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED IN CRETE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16349, 2 October 1916, Page 7

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED IN CRETE.

URGENT APPEALS TO KING TO FOLLOW PATH OF DUTY.

UNITY POSSIBLE ONLY THROUGH NATIONAL POLICY. Rculor. (Rocoived 7.30 p.m.) ATHENS, September 30. Telegrams from Canca state that the proclamation of the provisional government was signed by M. Venizelos and Admiral Coundouriotis. The proclamation draws a comparison between the present) situation of Greece and that before the war. It states it would be a happy event if at the eleventh hour, the King decided to take the lead of the national forces alongside the allies and the Servians to drivo out the Bulgarian invaders. In the contrary event, it would bo the duty of the provisional government to do what is needful to save the country from ruin, threatened by the application of a personal policy. The Crown was the victim of bad counsols, and this had resulted in a rapprochement with the hereditary enemies of Greece, the violation of the Constitution, and internal anarchy. The proclamation dwells on the refusal of facilities to the Servians, the abandonment of territory, and the flight of the population before the Bulgarians, the cession of war material, and the sending of Greek soldiers under a German general. It concludes: "It is essential to re-establish the national unity by an immediate return to the policy dictated by the national conscience."