CONDITIONS IN GREECE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14124, 17 October 1916, Page 3

CONDITIONS IN GREECE.

FAILURE OF ROYALIST 1 PLOT. TREACHERY AGAINST ALLIES. SITUATION SAVED BY PROMPT ACTION. NEW CABINET RECOGNISED BY ALLIES. VENIZELOS AT SALONIKA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, October 15. The Morning Post's Athens correspondent sends details of a sensational; Royalist plot. 7 He says several army divisions were concentrated at Tsojtia and Corinth, intended to cover King Constantino's flight to Trikalo, iri Thessaly, and enr trench there, and await a strong German force and then jointly attack the Allies. Largo supplies of arms and ammunition and military equipment had been railed to Trikalo. during the past fortnight, and the Government was commandeering the "grain reserves of Thessaly for the plotters. Admiral Dv Foumie't's seizure of the Piraeus-Larissa railway frustrated the plot, and the Athens station was seized just m time to prevent the despatch of a long train of arms, munitions, and field batteries to Larissa. , King Constantino's palace at Tatoi, near Athens, is strongly fortified with breastworks and wire entanglements. The Evening News' Athens correspondent says it is rumored that the Germandphile navy planned a great ■coup against the Allies' fleet, with the assistance of German submarines, but reckoned without the Allies' sympathisers, who warned the Allied officers. (Reuter's Telegram.) ATHENS, October 15. The Entente has recognised the newCabinet. Sir F* Elliott , visited the Foreign Minister. ; The . CrOwn Council ' accepted Admiral FoUrnet's Note, m which he demanded control of the Greek .police, theprohibition of :'. citizens carrying arms, 'the prphibition o_ the despatch of war material to Thessaly, and the lifting of the embargo on the exportation of wheat from _L__*6BS___V * :'.-■'-.' SALONIKA, October 15. M. Venizelos had a tremendous ovation at a banquet m honor of the Provisional Government. lii the course of a speech he- emphasised that the Bulgarians must be expelled from Greece, and a reference "to the latter's duty to Serbia evoked great enthusiasm. He announced the convocation after the war of the National Assembly, with the object of establishing new safeguards against violation by the Monarchical chief.