Imperial Valley press., 1915-11-22


ment Greece is the central feature i'm
the great war. When Lord Kitchener
ON Saturday demanded of King Con
stantiue and Premier Skouloudis that
Greece declare war on Germany and
Austria or dcmobili2e her army he
put in effect policy certain to force
Greece TO show her hand
The premier replied that Greece
would disarm and intern all Serbian
troops taking refuge in Greek terri
tory, which WIS the very thing the
Allies did not wish.
The British legation at once came
back by issuing a statement that the
Entente Allies had declared IAN eco
nomic and commercial blockade of
Greece"
So far as this goes, it seems certain
that Greece is definitely lined up with
the Germauic powers but il remains
to be seen Whether the people Of
Greece will submit TO a policy directly
opposed 10 their wishes, and there are
many limitations of a revolution to
overthrow the king and his prime min
lister.
1t is evident Britain feels the dan
ger of Greece joining with Bulgaria in
support al tbc Ccptral powers to crush
Serbia. and proposes to act so sud
denly against Greece as to prevent the
carrying out Of her purpose.
II is a serious problem confronting
Greece If She follows the will of the
queen, who is a sister of the Kaiser,
she will enter the Germanic alliance,
but will not be in contact with any
of her allies and must surely be
crushed as completely as Serbia has
been by the Teutons. On the other
hand, only the overthrow of her king
can prevent this consummation, as ar
fairs now look.
The next few hours should bring
rapid developments.
Berne Switzerland. Nov. 2o-AIi Eu-
rope has grimly settled down TO the
certainty of another winter of war.
Nobody this side OF Washington, d. c.
believes lher els any possibility OF
peace.
In America your inspired correspon-
dents at Washington start one peace
movement after another with no foun-
dation to any of them. In Europe,
.5opIe know peace is far away. In
Europe, the war has become 1acl
of life and the tortured millions are
accepting daily torture as matter
Of fact.
Switzerland is an oasis in the center
of il all. TO switzerland come scatter
ing groups Of all the combatant ma
tons some to live out the war some
to talk politics, some to deal in long
distance diplomacy, some a spies. Ior
their benefit. the newspapers of all
countries also come and correspon-
dents find in these journals more in
teresting war news than a dozen cor
respondents could cable to America
undercurrent news which the ordinary
reporter of war moves never sees, and,
if seen, the censor obliterates.
The most striking fact as winter
starts is the food condition, not alone
in Germany. but in England as we'll.
The English newspapers outside of
London are full Of articles urging
household economy and giving house
wives practical advice. In Germany
the food shortage takes the form Of
high prices. Germany undoubtedly has
enough food for her population, but
there can't be excessive high prices
any place on earth whore there is
plenty.
The Hague newspapers tell of new
Berlin ordinance forbidding artists to
paint with oils, because animal and
vegetable oils used for paints are
needed for the manufacture of chemi-
cal foods.
Go through copies of German news
papers and ads will be found offering
for sale artificial omclcts, artificial
butter and chemical honey and mar
malade.
Here is a translation of one adver-
tisement which says "to replace natu-
raj eggs in the kitchen write to Levin
chemist, Neukolin, near Berlin
Following the recent order to the
people to refrain from meat on certain
days, with the resultant riots, comes
the appearance of ads in the German
newspapers telling what fine subsu-
tute for beef whale meat is
The following is the advertisement
of one Ludwig Holzappel of Leipzig:
"The cheapest meat for cencentra
tIo, canine 1arOa neto and