INSULTS PROM NEWSPAPERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 3

INSULTS PROM NEWSPAPERS.

ALARMING FRONTIER INCIDENT. (Sydney Sun Specials.) LONDON, April 12. . Mr Caivert, the Times spfecial representative m the Balkans, says that a serious situation has arisen between the Allied authorities and the Greek Gtov- ' eminent m consequence of the lieutenant of a Greek guard at Karasuli habitual- . ly tapping a French field telephone. 'The lieutenant had connected thewires up with a recording apparatus ftr his room, and -when the French officers' discovered what had been going dn'the l^" ' forcibly expelled him and his men/.-aqjJ^ told them that they might r consider themselves lucky to have escaped being shot. The French then proceeded to occupy the station at Karasuli,,, -vrnich is a little south of. the border and on the River Vardar. ", . .-> . The Government protested, and d.e ~_ manded on explanation. ■ '-' 'V Meanwhile, General Sarrail, in 1 cjrfft. mand of the Allied forces, irritated by the increasingly bitter, and aggijeßßiv^ tone of a, sectibn of the Government. .. press, demanded a retraction of aeverai' disparaging and baseless reports. , % v • The Greek Liberal papers m Salonika-:"' are hotly indignant at the policy of : thY " Government, considering that it Vill tend to ruin the future of Hellenism