The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1916. ADMIRAL DU FOURNET.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 5 December 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1916. ADMIRAL DU FOURNET.

Apparently one of the great mistakes the Allies have been making is that they have placed any reliance on Greek promises and have failed to at once recognise that Constantine conld be nothing at any time but a German tool. But at this late hour we appear to be stiffening our backs a little under the direction of the French Vice-Admiral Dartige du Fournet, who as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Meets in the Aegean is now trying to put Constantine on the right road. Admiral du Fournet is a man with a brilliant record. Also he is said to be a man who is not afraid to take a risk. He, is sixty years old, and won the Cross of the Legion of Honor thirty years ago for war service in China in the Toukinese war. Ten years later he was in command of the gun-boat Comete when the Mekong Straits were forced. Difficulties had arisen in Indo-China with the King of Siam, and the Comete, under du Fournet, dashed through the straits, risking the fire of the forts commanding them, and reached Bangkok with but few losses. As a result of this audacious feat the King of Siam gave way the same night, and signed a treaty with France. In 1901 du Fournet acted as Chief of Staff to the Far Eastern squadron. In 1907 be commanded a division in tin; Mediterranean, and later held the chief command of the International squadron anchored oil' Constantinople during the Blakau War. He became vice-admiral in 1913. During the present war he first commanded the Syrian squadron, and then succeeded Admiral Bone de Lapeyrere in cornmaud of the French squadron at the Dardanelles, and now he commands the Allied fleet whose gnus are pointed towards Greece. The wily Constantine appears to have so far been a match even for this brilliant sailorman, but very probably the hampering influence of administrative heads at home, who for "sentimental reasons'.' do not want to hurt Greece, has kept him back. The Unfit of patience, however, appears to have been nearly reached.