THE GREEK CRISIS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 882, 7 December 1916, Page 7

THE GREEK CRISIS.

ORDER IN ATHENS.

SITUATION STILL GRAVE. Australian and N.Z. Cable isnnciation. LONDON, December 5. In the House of Lords, Lord Crewe announced that since Lord Robert Cecil's statement a telegram from the British Minister at Athens reported that a certain degree of order had been re-established. It had been ascertained that irregular armed bands attacked the Entente troops, and the Yenizelists. These bands, including their officers, had been dismissed, and Greek regulars were now guarding Athens. The British Minister advised that British people could go about Piraeus in greater safety. Though it did not fear any immediate danger to British life and property, the Government, said Lord Crewe, did not regard the situation with less gravity and was unshaken in its determination to fix the responsibility for Friday's events and secure their non-recurrence. The whole question involved military and naval consideration.