DIPLOMACY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13931, 2 March 1916, Page 3

DIPLOMACY.

Baron von Schenck, after a long term as a German diplomatist*at Athens, has been recalled to Berlin, to explain why he spent £175,000 with such unsatisfactory results. The Kaiser to his old Von Schenck has sent a telegram : . . "Vot haf you done?" The Grecian kick that should have kicked the Allies out, py damn, Has not begun. A .million and three-quarter marks have filtered through his hands, Yet army corps on army corps at Salonika lands, And, since the Tipperary tune is played 1 by all the bands, He gets the run. " . • He did not square John Jellicoe, the ruler of tho sea, And all his gaile To coax obi Daddv Joffre with the chink of £ s. d. Just raised a smile : Though Tino tried to help his game, and Tino'e hefty Queen Supported all his efforts with a very gracious mien, On every, mast-head in the bay the Union Jack was seen — Yes, all. the "while. Wherever all the money went the diplo■l mats, may know, • " But none of it Has stopped the Allied reinforcements' unrestricted flow"' . ' ; A single wit ; . He may have found a taker here, or found a taker, there — The hanger-on has always been an easy x mark, to squareAcross Von Schenck's diplomacy i* written clear and fair : "The biter bit." If he had. got to Edward Grey with forty pounds '(Your pardon, Grey) To sav that Thessalonika was plainly out of bounds ' . In. war to-day, His white-souled Kaiser might have been more uleased with what he did And sanctioned Asquith's ourchase for a hundred million quid, : But since he frittered all his cash in un- * productive kid. . HeV shot away. "While Kitchener's kyhooting round the blue /Egean's shores," . The Kaiser wired, *'Drnw cheques for umptt million marks, and make him wholly yours, As Tve desired." So poor Von Scnonck shook out Vns pui*se. grown thin by many leaks, And purchased, with the dreps of it, • srvme iindistinffiiished Greeks. But found, that he had struck a. game where Tiooney never speaks, And he was fired. Thouch Germany has tried, and failed, to purchase* little Greece, There's still a way Whereby her pouring out of gold may brnvr much-wanted peace To her to-day — Tf she- will call her legions back from where their nim'der spread And pay the price for all the blood her crazv king has shed There will be peace ; but those accounts all sorawled in, reeking red:, , She'll have to pay. " -^Sydney Sun.