AN OFFENDED MONARCH.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13995, 27 January 1916, Page 5

AN OFFENDED MONARCH.

INTERVIEW WITH KING

CONSTANTINE

ALLIEg DOING EVERYTHING

UNPLEASANTLY

London, Jan. 23

Mr. Crawford Price, of the British Press, has been accorded an interview with King Constantino. The King said that he was displeased at the fact that Greece was being made the battleground for foreign armies.

Mr, Price asked: "Do you not admit that there has been certain justification for our recent actions, however distasteful they may have been to you?"

King Constantine replied: "Yes —and no. You could have chosen another place in which to re-form the Serbian Army rather than have violated our neutrality, which you guaranteed, like that; of Belgium.. I am willing to do all I can to, help the Serbians provided I am approached in a proper mariner. I object to your riding over us roughshod. "We would have got rid of the Consuls if you had asked us. I recognise the necessity for the destruction of the Demirhissar bridge in the event of a hostile advance, but there was no object in the present cutting off of our military communications. There has been a

studied attempt to do everything unpleasantly, and this treatment of us is in every way unjustifiable. I have given my personal word that there would be no hostility to the Allies, and therefore any further assurance cannot be demanded, as neither the Government nor the army can do anything without my authority/

Mr. Price adds: "Germany has strongly protested against the seizure of Corfu, and will hold Greece responsible for ; the Kaiser's Palace. King Constantine is being eqeezed by both sides, but it is unlikely that he will depart, from his attitude of neutrality.'*

The Germans have prohibited ■'night i raffle in Serbian towns, under the pen-, nlty of death. They afo rigorously inflicting public corporal chastisement, without regard to age or sex, for the slightest infringement of the regulation.