GREECE-AMD TURKEY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 7

GREECE-AMD TURKEY.

- The Greek Minister,;:; In, -Jofon :has issued-a statement regarding-the action of' Greece in declining- to-' '&igti- the. protocol of the- armistice..\;Th& -Minfetpy. Gay s .—.''lmnwdiately'V bcfiife'^ttie- >vax the Porto approached M. Yemzelos with tempting offers, wishing to detach Gfeec© from the alliance. These wore indignantly",. rejected. Then. Turkey declared war "upon Ser/ia and Bulgaria, but not upon Greece, once more with the of detaching her from her allies, biit.GTeece declared -war-.against Turkey. Immediately 'before Turkey's demand for an armistice the.Porte once •more addressed itee'i to the Greek Premier with offers of a separate peace, and again M. Vienizelos, in honourable faith: to his allies- , declared that he would on no aroouut come to even a partial Understanding without the full knowledge, co-op:-ration,..and consent of allies. Greece's" contribution has 'n-ot be on confined'to. the uninterruptedly victorious operation*! of her arniy of 140,000 men. v Without the presence of our .ships Turkey x would have been able, within 10 days, of the doci-ara-tica of war, to bring her best troops from Asia Minor and Arabia, and laud them on the flank.of tlie Bulgarian armies,, .-thus-;, roadering their m-assiificeht victories quit?. impossible. "New Zealand Herald"..'** ■<