AUSTRALIA. GREECE

Timaru Herald, Volume CV, Issue 16076, 25 September 1916, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

GREECE

ANTI-COUSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN. SYDNEY, Sept. 23. . The anti-conscription campaign was opened in the Town Hall which was packed, a big overflow meeting being held in tho street. Mr Finlayson. secretary of tho Labour Party, a.nd certain Federal members were the chief speakers. Tho proceedings were orderly. Resolutions wero carried against conscription for service abroad and pledging the meetings to use every lawful means against- tho carrying of the referendum. SLACK ENLISTMENTS. Enlisting continues slack.p Pr 0 r the first twenty days of September tho total was 5535. Senator Russell (Minister without Portfolio) intends to resign his Ministerial ]>osit!on and enlist aftei - the Referendum is taken. REFERENDUM BILL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received 31 p.m., Sept. 24tli. MELBOURNE, Sept. 24. Tho Senate niter a. tliirty-six hours sitting passed the third reading of the Refe-ivndum Bill by 17 votes 10 9.

ALLIED FLEET INCREASED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received 5.5 p.m., Sept. 24th. ATHENS, Sept. 23. Tho Allied fleet at Salamis has been increased to eighty-five ships, prepared for a long stay. A KINGDOM IN NAME. CONSTANTINE DEFIED IN ATHENS. HOW GOVERNMENTS WERE FORMED. (United Service.) . LONDON, Sopt. 23. Mr Jeffries, correspondent, writes from Athens:—Tho kingdom of Greece is merely a name. Athens >no longer governs Salonika, Lemnos, Samos, and Mitylene.... Proclamations of independence have been issued in Epirus and Larissa, Crete and the Cyelades Islands aro following suit, while Phocis and Acarnania aro wavering. Only Athens and the Peloponnessus remain. .Tho walls of Athens are ■ placarded with tho newspapers' last appeal, "0 King, abdicate." • Tho "Astyr" journal publishes the declaration ' of ai former royal courtier: "We liavo made a revolution and disobeyed the commands of the King and Government because of the treason'of Kavalla, the magnitude of tho catastrophe compelling, me ■ and other -hitherto fanatical enemies of tho Liberal party to join tho rising." The placards liavo , not been removed, because King Constantino's authority and prestige are practically gone. Quantities of arms are stored unhindered in private houses. King Constantino and M. Venizelos aro holding co-equal powers, the King not daring to challenge M. Venizelos's acts. " . .'.Tho. King's rash promiso to the Kaiser of no intervention is responsible for tho whole trouble. He appointed MM. Gounaris and Skouloudis to head successive Governments because they were unlikely to do anything, subsequently temporising continuously. He saw the tide turning, and stubbornly imitated King Canute, patronising the Reservists League and pandering to anti-Venizelist-s. M. Zaimis resigned because he was over-ridden by Streit, Stratos, and other Kaiserites and Germans surrounding King Constantino. Streit actually forms ; Ministries, contemptuously and openly stating that there is no need to worry about the pirates' (Pira'eus) 7 ; fleet. '

,J GREEK REVOLUTIONARIES: READY FOR FRONT, (Renter's Telegrams.} i • " SALONIKA, Sept. 23. A battalion of Greek revolutionaries was paraded, preparatory to going to the Front. General Ziobrakakis exhorted them to expel the invaders, and women threw flowers from windows. A GERMAN STATEMENT. GREECE UNDER VENIZELOS'S THUMB. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 23. Baron Schenk has returned to Berlin. In an interview he. stated that .Greeoe was completely under M. Venizelos's thumb. THE KING'S "NEUTRALITY." •ATHENS, Sept. 23. In connection- with the King's harangue to recruits, it is widely com- ' mented that he passed over. in silence the ignominious surrender of an army corps to the Bulgarians, while, he frenzily denounced the revolutionaries. KING- OR KAISER? The newspaper "Patris" says that tho King lias considerably extended his constitutional powws and assumed the Kaiser's autocratic methods. | OBSTACLES,. TO REVOLUTION. | The "Daily Chronicle's" Athens correspondent states that the Government, suspecting tliat three hundred of the crew of. tho Aver-off. were preparing to join the Salonika movement, order tho rest of the fleet to surround • the cruiser. | To ensure getting genuino "NAZOL" ■ —the true and tried cough and cold remedy—always order by name. Resist imitations and pnbstitutes. Get what you want—' 'NA ZOL." . 3