THE GREEK SITUATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 15

THE GREEK SITUATION.

The Greek Chamber of Deputies has resolved to send members of MM Skouloudis and Lambros's Cabinets before the High Court. Thirty deputies have petitioned that members of the Gounans Ministry be similarly treated. The Italian Commander-in-Chief of the Epirus has been ordered to evacuate all Hellenic territory. The cavalry has already left Janina (which has been in Italian occupation). Constantino, ex-King of Greece, has issued a proclamation denouncing M. Venizclos. The Vossiche Zeitung says Constantino regards himself as still King, and will return to the throne. BRITAIN'S FOOD CONTROL. In an interview in London, Lord Rhondda, Britain's Food Controller, said that Britain expected to spend £40.000,000 annually to keep bread and flour prices at a reasonable figure. Since the British Government had controlled the wheat trade

it had sold wheat and flour practically at cost. Owing to the Irish butter and bacon producers refusing to do business on the Food Conta-oller's prices, Mr Douglas Carson, assistant manager of the Humber Grading Company, has been arrested. Lord Rhondda, in the course of an interview with the London correspondent of tho newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad (Amsterdam), declared that the submarine campaign no longer caused anxiety regarding bread supply. It had so stimulated cultivation that within a year the United Kingdom would be practically independent of imports for the chief foodstuffs concerned.