GREEK DUPLICITY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9256, 25 January 1916, Page 6

GREEK DUPLICITY

FRENCH EXPOSURE KING CONSTANTINE’S APPEAL TO AMERICANS. gp T«l#atrapb—Pres A»«oclallon— Coprrlffhi LONDON, January 23. A French wireless communique, commenting on the Associated Press interview with King Constantine, published in Now York, complaining of the encroachments by the Allies on Greek sovereign rights, points out that the Allies went to Salonika at the request of Greece, and adds: “During the last few months the Greek Government has allowed the neutrality of Greece to bo violated by the Germans and Austrians, who used the coasts and islets for submarine bases. An entire German 'staff was found at Corfu on the eve of the French disembarkation. From these coasts and isles the pirates were sent out who sank the Ancona and the Persia.” NEW YORK, January 23King Constantine's appeal to the United States has fallen flat. The newspapers are not sympathetic, reminding him that the Allies came virtually at ,the invitation of Greece. WOULD HELP ALLIES BET THEY SHOULD APPROACH KING PROPERLY. 'limes” and Sydnejr "Bun" Service*. (Received January 24, 5.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 23. Mr Crawford Price, in the course of an interview with King Constantine, learned that His Majesty was displeased that Greece should become the battle-ground for foreign arms. Mr Price asked: “Do you not admit there is a certain justification for our recent actions, however distastofu they may he to you ?” King Constantine replied: “Yes and no. Yop , could have chosen some other place in which to reform the Serbian army rather than violate the neutrality you have guaranteed, as you had that of Belgium. lam willing to do all I can to help the Serbians, provided 1 am approached in a proper manner. . 1 object to your people riding over us roughshod. We would have got rid of the foreign Consuls at Salonika if- you had asked us to do so.

“I recognise the necessity of the destruction of Donur Hissar in the event of a hostile advance, but there is no object to bo gained at present by cutting off our military communications. There has been a studied attempt to do everything unpleasantly. Such treatment is in every way unjustified. I had given my personal word that there would bo no hostility towards the Allies; therefore a further assurance could not be demanded, as neither my Government nor my army would do anything without' my authority.” Mr Price adds: —“Germany has strongly protested against the seizure of Corfu, and is holding Greece responsible for tho safety of the Raiser’s Palace. King Constantine is squeezed on both sides, but is unlikely to depart from his policy of neutrality-”

GERMAN PEACE "TERMS"

TEUTON’S MODEST REQUIRE

MEiNTS,

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ZURICH, January 23.

A private circular embodying a basis for tho discussion of peace terms has been published here. It proposes to demand a huge indemnity from England, the surrender of German SouthWest Africa, Rhodesia, Zanzibar, Somaliland, and the Upper Nile territories in British East Africa, while Austria will receive Malta, and Turkey Cyprus.

TURGO-BULGAR AGREEMENT

HOW THE PORTE WAS IMPRESSED.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyright

PARIS, January 23.

Senor I hero, a Spanish publicist, in an article in the “Echo de Paris,' quotes a prominent official of the Turkish. Foreign Office as saying that a Turoo-Bulgarian treaty was signed •with the Bulgar sword at Turkey’s throat. The treaty provides for the eventual occupation of Salonika by Bulgaria, while Turkey will he compensated with the Aegean coast to Kavalla, inclusively, besides the retrocession of the recently-ceded territories. Tho Bulgarians nevertheless stilj dream of becoming masters of Constantinople. THE TRAGEDY TURKEY ATTEMPTS TO SHIELD PIRATES. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright COPENHAGEN, January 23. Advices from Berlin and Vienna state that Turkey is issuing a declaration that a Turkish submarine sank the Persia. [Turkey has no submarines of her own.] AUSTRIANBRUTALITV ATTACKS ON SERBIAN WOMEN ' AND CHILDREN, By Tolograph—Pross Assooiation—Oopyrighl '' ROME, January 23. Mr Corillard, tho American Minister in Serbia, has arrived. He declares, that he embarked 2300 Serbian women and children on Italian steamer at San Giovanni di Medina, and that Austrian submarines vainly endeavoured to torpedo the vessels without warning.