GREECE TO MAINTAIN ARMED NEUTRALITY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 885, 11 December 1916, Page 7

GREECE TO MAINTAIN ARMED NEUTRALITY.

NO MORE CONCESSIONS TO BE MADE. BOTH SIDES NOTIFIED OF HER DECISION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 11, 8.55 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, December 10. The "Az Est," of Budapest, publishes a message from Sofia, stating that Greece has notified the Entente Powers and Austria and Germany of her intention strongly to maintain an armed neutrality, adding: "We will not make further concessions. Any new challenge will he regarded as a casus belli. - ' CONSTANTINE READY TO JOIN GERMANS. IF ALLD3S CEASE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. Router's Telegrams. (Received December 11, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, December 10. The Piraeus correspondent of "Lloyd's News" states that King Constantine has informed one Legation that he will join the Germans if the Entente breaks off diulomatie relations. Telegrams from Syra state that troops are pouring into Athens, and that there arc now 20,000 soldiers there. The Ministers of the Entente Powers demanded an explanation of this concentration, to which the Prime Minister (M. Lambros) replied that it was to preserve order. The Government Press admits that 1600 Yenizelists have been seized. FRENCH PAPERS DEMAND INSTANT ACTION. ENTENTE FORCES IN MACEDONIA ENDANGERED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association(Received December 11, 11.15 a.m.) PARIS, December 10. Newspapers are demanding immediate action in Greece; otherwise it is feared that the Allies' eastern army may soon have on its hands King Constantine's Greeks and General von Mackensen's Germans, fresh-from Wallachia.