STRAIGHT TALK TO GREEK GOVERNMENT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 869, 22 November 1916, Page 7

STRAIGHT TALK TO GREEK GOVERNMENT.

ENEMY MINISTERS MUST LEAVE ATHENS. ADMIRAL DU FOURNET'S DETERMINED STAND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 22, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. The "Daily Chronicle's"' Athens correspondent reports that the four Ministers of the enemy Powers have decided to refuse voluntarily to surrender in consequence of the Allies' deportation order. Admiral du Fournet has informed the Government that he Avill insist on.obedience to the order, and will decline to accept the responsibility in consequence of a refusal to cany it out. United Service. LONDON, November 21. Mr J. M. X. Jeffries writes from Athens that the immediate cause of the expulsion of the German, Austrian, Bulgarian, and Turkish Ambassadors by Admiral du Fournet, on behalf of the Allies, was the discovery that Baron von Graey, the German naval attache, was engaged in espionage. It was reported yesterday that Admiral du Fournet, commanding the Allied ile.ets in the ■ffigeai), had notified the Greek Government that he had ordered the Ministers of the four enemy Powers to board a ship for deportation to their own countries. 'Die Government later notified that the proposal to hand passports to the Ministers was not acceptable to it.