New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
ALLIES BLUNDER
COST GREEK AID
Plan to Win Golden Horn
Rejected, Says Premier
SkOulOudis.

London. Dec. $50. as see il,
Greece is to be raysged by a cruel,
relentless war because the Entente Al
lies have badly bundered in p dplo
matte as we'll as a military sense"
In these words ". Skouloudis,
Premier OF Greece, criticised the
diplomacy Of the Entente powers in
the Balkans. in an interview with
"The Daily Chronicie's" Athens CORE
spondent.
The prediction Of p battle on Greek
soil is significant in view OF dispatch
printed b. the "Tages Zeitung" o.
Berlin, which says that Bulgarian
troops are entering Greek territory,
but that IL they are not attacked By
Greek troops they will confinc their
operations to seizinr the Salonica
railway.
The Greek Premier complained bit
terly tina. his country had been ma
ligned and mis- government attacked.
But" VI. Skouloudis is Quoted as
having said. "the fault was not ours.
We tried TO play the game. as you Eng
lish say. and If wc failed IL is the
Entente. not we. who are responsible.
Declaring with. emotion that he had
earnestly tried 70 bc eye 10 eye with
the Entente Powers and 70 avert blood
shed in Macedonia, ~ Skouloudis said:
The Allies have fouted and sngered
Greece. instead OF placating her. In
stead Of dealing openly with US they
coouetted with Bulgaria. while treating
US disdsinfuly. The result is that they
have fallen between two stools. II the
Allies had come frankly 20 Greece and
asked her aid and told her that she
could count on a clearly defined recon-
pensc at the end OF the struggle, ] af-
firm that Greece woIld not have hesi-
tatsd for single moment.
Instead OF this England and France
Began o. demanding sacrifices from
Greece. Wc we're asked 30 cooperate
in the Dardsnelles and At the same time
to relinquish Ksvala and Seres TO our
bitterest foes to give up, IN fact, our
richest provinces, which had been won
by Greek blood. We were free to shed
Dardanelles. but we wee warned that
on no accoun. must ye dream OF
marching 20 Constsntinople in the
event o. All Allied success. . fact. y
was expressly forbidden in nc event
al oar success fo- the Greeks % show
thcir national flag within ffty miles cf
The ancient Byzantine capital
Rem qrkja- that the Greeks had not
forgotten Gladstone and Great Brit-
aims noble lsbors in The pas; in be
half. Of Greece. Premier Skouloudis
continued;
"You have bulliad us. snd We turred
the o-he- cheek uncompla We
ho,os.l- sought 20 aid ycu, and prof
fered you aid which you rejected"
Stating that the Greek staff had Of
fered plan by which the Dardanelles
might have beer forced. but that the Al
lies refused the advice. Premier Skou
loudis contended that in allowing the
Entente Allies 20 come 20 SsloIica
Greecc had gone 10 The utmost. limits
OF friendship. BIZ: bee been treated with
such humiliation in turn that she had
been almost goaded into hostilities
against the Entente
Up TO n late hour ;o-nignt ihere haa
been no official confirmation OF ;he re
port OF the Russian occupation o.
Va-na. which. IL true. is. according I
the London editors, "ore o. the great
est moves OF tho present var
The same critics believe that the
Russian assault on Varna IS ne pr,
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