GREEK CRISIS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 13050, 12 January 1917, Page 4

GREEK CRISIS.

CONDITIONAL SURRENDER TO DEMANDS. • (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received: January 11, at 7.40 p.m. Rome. January 10. Th-e Tribuna states that Greece lia.s "wholly accepted the Allies' terms. Received January 11, at 10.30 p.m. Rome. .January 11. . The Tribiuia states that the Entente ultimatum to Greece demanded the execution of its demands within a fortnight. ,M. Vcnizelos has sent Prince Alexander to Rome as a diplomatic representative with a view of increasing the friendly Italian-Greek relations. It is uncertain whether Italy will recognise him officially. Prince Alexander interviewed: Mr Lloyd George in reference to the matter. Received January 12, at 0.25 p.m. . Athens, January 11. The time limit of the. Entente's ultimatum expired at eleven on "Wednesday night, but a reply was delivered at 6 o'clock. . ..'lt is understood that the reply enu--1 meratea all the acceptable demands. ... . New York, January 11. " '.The New, York World's Washington . correspondent says: "Italy agrees to place a'very large force of troops ac-t-he! disposal of the Allies, who have promised Italy possession, of the province of Trieste. Southern Albania, including Avlona- "and the fringe of Dalmatia.

Received January 12, at 11.50 a.m. Athens, January li. It is announced that Greece has ac- . cepted the Allies' terms. Reuters Telegrams.) Keccived January 12, at 0.25 a.m. New York, January 11. ...The failure of Greece earlier to accede to the demands of the Allies resulted in a. virtual blockade of Greek shipping here. No Greek ship has arrived or departed for several weeks. Several put into Bermuda for coal and were seized by the British.

GERMAN CASUALTY LIST

(The Times Service.) Received January 11, at 8.50 p.m. . ■ London, January 10. .. .Germany claims that 70 per cent, of the German wounded return to the front-; 6 per cent, are unfit for service, and 24 per cent, are relegated to garrison duty.

CERMAN FINANCES CRIPPLED,

BAD OUTLOOK FOR PENSIONERS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) R-eceived January 11, at 4.30 p.m. Amsterdam, January 10. General von .Stein, ill a proclamation to the German people, indicating the serious outlook for war pensioners, urges the people to employ soldiers invalided by the war. He says Germany's finances are so hard' hit that she will be unable to support the invalids for ma ny years, since the number is continually increasing. Y\ hatever peace .Germany, can get, her financial resources will be- limited. Received January 11. at 10.40 p.m. Copenhagen. January 1 1. Herr -Stresemann, in a speech at Hanover. said: It will be impossible to collect- the large amount of new taxation necessitated by the war, therefore it will be necessary to confiscate immediately from one-third to one-quarter ot all private fortunes.

FOOD SHORTAGE INj CERMANY

lean years ahead

(Reuter's Telegrams.)

Received January 11. at 8.50 p.m. Amsterdam, January 10. Dr Michaelis, one of the German State Under-Secretaries, in. an article ih the Kolnische Volkszeitung.. warns' those desiring peace because of the want of food that peace will not mean more food- , .'."We must expect tor years, ■ the doctor says, "the limitation of food and the continuance of rationing of the most important foodstuffs, because Germany will be obliged to import as little as possible owing to the scarcity of tonnage, and, even after the war, it win be necessary to pull the belt tight."'

Received January 12, at S-50 a.m. Amsterdam. -January 11

The Municipality oi Berlin announces the possibility of one egg a week lor every Berliner t;ll the 31st, but it is impossible to forecast the supply alter that. Herr Batocki, tho Food Controller, interviewed by a Swedish journalist, admitted the local difficulties, but said Austria's share of the Roumanian food supplies would enable her to dispense with the contemplated contribution of a hundred thousand tons of corn from Germany.

ECONOMY AT HOME.

SENDING WOOL TO AMERICA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 11. at 4.50 p.m. London, January 10.

The chairman of the Wool Exports* Committee states that the Director of Army Contracts has devised a scheme to keep down British consumption and fceep up the foreign exchange:. llie. export trade will have priority over the home trade in the buying of _ surplus colonial- and British -wools, after the army needs have been satisfied.

UTILISING BRITAIN'S LAND RESOURCES.

VEGETABLES IX LONDON PARKS. (A. and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Reuter.) Received January 11. at 8.50 p.m. London, January 10. Mr Lloyd George's golf club at Walton Heath has allotted live acres for potato-growing. The King has consented to a scheme for the cultivation of cereal and 1 odder crops at Richmond and Bushey Parks. Tt is hoped that the King's example will, stimulate laudowners to increase the food supplies. A motor plough w : H be immediately available. Smaller allotments have been chosen at Kensington Gardens, Regent s Park, and Hyde Park for the cultivation of vegetables suited to the London atmosphere and soil.

THE IRON HAND

NO ENGLISH FOR ENGLISH WOUNDED. ■ (Reuters Telegrams.) Received -January 12, at 8.50 a.m. . . Amsterdam, January 11. Al. Hague oorrespodent says tlias Hindenburg. while visit-incr a hospital at Cambrai was angered' by a German nurse speaking English to a British wounded and: ordered hsjr removal, declaring that no one speaking English would be employed iu nursing English.