GERMANY AND GREECE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14047, 18 July 1916, Page 3

GERMANY AND GREECE.

BRIBING THE ELECTORS. VOTING CARDS BOUGHT TO PREVENT VOTING. (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON, July 17. Athens- telegrams state that the notorious Baron von Schenk has received „three million marks from Germany for electioneering purposes. German agents are purchasing voting cards from workrhen m the pro-Venize-lisfe district, thus disenabling them voting. *' M. Venizelos. the Greek patriot, who v 11 be fighting an election m the interests of Greek democracy and nationaliti this month, has still the clear view t.' tlir* war which he had when he invited the Allies to Salonika, and proposed t.> fulfil Greece's treaty obligations to f-Li'via. In a recent issue of his; paper Kyriz, he analysed the British Budget of April last, compared it with those of nl-jer countries, and ended by stating:— • "VVe had,' of course, before the war, an ..nvarcL feeling of Britain's greatness,- .we tJiat the Britannic Empire is the V-atest political .invention" which man ha* been aWe to make; but with all this a.- were unable to realise all the astoniohmg economical strength of this Emfire — an Empire which, with all this st'-ength, and this ready display of effecti es. declares to all people her resolut'on for the struggle which is being cari'icd on ; against the -German Empire's c'aim to rule the world.'*