The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-11-24
IT'S UP TO GREECE
KITCHENER CARRIES DEMAND OF
ALLIED GOVERNMENTS
king MUST SHOW HAND

king MUST SHOW HAND
Entente Powers Say Hellenic Nation
Must Fulfill Treaty Obligations to
Serbia or Demobiiize- Commercial
Blockade OF Empire to Show Firm
ness.
The Entente allies have demand
ed that Greece either join with
them and fulfill here treaty obi. =
cations to Serbia or demobilize,
and to impress King Constantine
that they mean what they say the
Allies have declared commercial
blockade of the Hellenic empire,
according to Athens dispatches.
Paris says Havas' agency corre-
spondent confirms report that the
mercial blockade of Greece. An an
nouncement issued by the British
legation at Athens is given as fol-
lows:
Because Of the attitude by the
Hellenic government in regard to
certain questions touching closely the
security and liberty of action to
which the allied troops have the
right under the conditions Of their
disembarkment on Greek territory
the allied powers have deemed It
! necessary to take certain measures
| wrich will have the effect of suspend
ing the economic and commercial IA
cilities which Greece has received
from them heretofore,
'It is not the intention of allied
powers to constrain Greece to aban-
don. her neutrality, to, maintain
| which, in their eyes, is the best guar
anty of her interests. The allied gov
ernments have been somewhat dis
turbed by certain illusions to even
tual measures which if taken by the
Hellenic government would appear to
them to be contra dictory to assur-
ances they have received.
Gas soon as their doubts on that
subject-due, no doubt, to a naisun-
|
the powers will be happy to remove
the obstacles now opposed to the ar
rival of merchandise in, Greece and to
accord any facilities which result
from normal relations.
A London dispatch says Lord
Kitchener, accompanied by the Brit
ish minister at Athens, was received
by King Constantine of Greece Sat-
urday afternoon. After the audience,
| which lasted more than an hour,
Lord Kitchener conferred with Pre-
mier Skouloudis. He'left Athens at
six o'clock Saturday evening.
The British war minister present
ed to the king the Allies demands
Greece's immediate Intervention in
the war on their side or the denobili-
zation of her troops.
| No direct reply to this practical
ultimatum has been received in Lon
don. so far as is known publicly, but
| the torturing uncertainty Of the rast
month continues. Instead of King
Constantine acceding to the demand
of the Allies as asked by Lord Kitch-.
ener, according to German sources,
he has taken an equiTecal position.
The kings minister OF state, ac-
cording to IN Athens dispatch to the
Frankfurter Zeitung, has informed
the foreign diplomats that in order,
to maintain neutrality Greece pro-
poses to disarm and imprison all Ser
bian troops which may tread on
Greek territory.
This notification of the Serbian
army's mobility iS one Of the chief
acts which tho Allies are requesting
shall not be done. Coupled with this
disquicting report comes the further
announcement that Albanian troops
are trcing to bar the other road Of
safe retreat by concentrating on the
Serbian frontier. -
| With these two movements afainSr
the safety of the remnants Of the Ser
bi2n army, tho condition so far as
these brcce defenders are concerned
seems hopeless. A further report re-
ceived is that the diplomatic corps In
| Serbia are withdrawing to Scutari
Some little comfort was derived
from the optimistic tone Of dis
patches from Athens which state that
since the arrival of Dcnys Cochin
public opinion is running strongly for
the Entente allies and that Lord
Kitchener was loudly checred on
leaving the palace after his interview
with the king. But these dispatches
all fail in the vital necessities Of as
suring England of Constartine's real
attitude toward the Allies.
1t is well understood, horever. that
the kings sentiment is not OF his
people, and this is shown anew by
reports received from Athens by way
of Berlin that serious dissffection ex-
lists in the Greek army.
A propaganda Of revolts has spread
| to considerable extent. There are
open threats against the reigning
| dynasty. A corps of gendarmes in
the Saloniki district composed prin-
cipally of Cretains is said to have
| been agitating in favor of NJ. Veni-
| zelos. In view of the situation Pre-
| mier Skouloudis' cabinet is said to De
considering proclamation Of martial
| law.
Private advices from German
sources through Copenhagen that the
Athens government has ordered all
Greek vessels from French and Ital-
ian ports Immediately arc generallp
taken rs hint that Bing Constantine
means to defy the. Allies. The order
is accepted rs IN attempt to forestall
detention of Greek craft by the
French and italians, step the Eng
lish have taken already.
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