EXCITEMENT IN GREECE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 5

EXCITEMENT IN GREECE.

THE ALLIES INSISTENT

(Received April 17, d.o p.m.)

London, April ,17.

The. "Daily Chronicle" publishes a letter from Mr. Martin Douohoo from Athens. He reports that excitement runs high in connection with the transport; of the Serbians. Originally it was proposed that they should be shipped at Corfu and three days later o'.:; embark at Salonika, but it was found that the voyage would be full of i.eril to troopships, and the Allies determined on a sea journey of 12 hou:s to Patras, and thence by the Peloponnesian railway via Athens. The Greek Government offered strong opposition to this project, whereupon the Allies informed Mi Skouloudis that Greek official sanction was immaterial and that the Allies would not perinic the Greeks to interfere with the -plan of operations. Learning of the Aohens scheme, Austria and Germany emphatically intervened, and told Greece that it would be regarded as an unfriendly act if she remained passive and permitted the Serbians to reach the fit ingline. The Allies then indicated' that they also would have recourse to strong measures if the Greeks tlv-vart-eci their designs. M. Skouloudis i- 1 now seeking a peaceable escape from the

dilemma