The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-10
HUMILIATEO BY ENTENTE, GREEK
 LEADER ASSERTS
Points Out Aggrandisement of Greek Rights by British
 and French Diplomats.

ana Erencn Diplomats. /, Athens. Aug. 1O-Agamemnon schliemann. member of the Greek Chamber of Deputies and former Greek Minister to Washington, after conference with the leaders of the late. government has issued a state- ment addressed to The Associated Press and embodying the point of view of the Greek Conservative party regarding the recent intervention of the Powers in Greek affairs. The statement is issued in English.
 We have been profoundly humil- lated that those whom we have al- ways considered the protectors of our national life and of our independence should have succeeded, by threatening the use of brutal force in intervening in the internal affairs of our coun- try.
 Strong in the conviction of our right, it is our duty to point out, the cold facts as they are, not only to the great neutral Powers of the world. among which America holds so prom 1nent a place, but also through the medium of the American press, to point out the same facts to the con- science of the liberal people of Great Britain and to the gallant French nation so imbued with the immortal principles of 1789. We cannot be- lieve that the people of these two countries have full knowledge of the attempt upon our Constitution, our national liberty and our indepen- %y,o governments of France and Great Britain and their accredited represen- tatives in Greece.
 When two years ago Austria, by her ultimatum to Serbia, demanded in addition to other claims that rep resentatives of her judiciary sit beside the Belgrade judges in Investigating the crime of Serajevo, the whole world cried that Serbian freedom was being abolished, and a world war seemed Justified by this tramling of a small nations rights by one of the great Powers of Europe. When later on Belgian neutrality was violated. Great Britain thought herself justified in taking arms against Austrias ally in defense of the rights of a weaker nation.
 Throughout this colossal carnage, all the neutral nations have been re- peatedly told that this Is a war for the liberation of mankind from the threat of German militarism. for the protection of smaller peoples from the encroachments of the, stronger and more greedy nations. How then is 1t possible that the people of Great Britain and France or that the great American people should approve the high-handed methods by which the liberties and independence of the Hellenic people were abolished by a few strokes of the pen of the Allied Ministers in Athens?
 ''The demands of the three Pow CTS signatory to the note of June 21 are known. Chief among them are the dissolution of the Greek Parlia- ment and the proclamation of new elections. We Greeks are so con- stitutional a people that even while protesting against the manner in which these new elections have been forced upons us, we would neverthe- less respect the national verdict of the polls if. as is stated in the Entenfe ultimatum, the elections take place after the Greek electors have returned to normal conditions of 1ife.'
 ''But we ask the impartial judg- ment of America if a foreign naval and military occupation of over half of Greece and martial law declared and maintained throughout Macedo- mia constitute such normal conditions of life as will permit the free electors of Greece to perform their duties as citizens uninfluenced by the presence in Greece of the Allied troops, or If deputies chosen under these circum- stances can honestly represent the will of the nation expressed unhamp- cred by the influence of foreign bay onets.
 Would not elections held in Bel gium today under the heel of German soldiery or in Serbia, under the con- trol of the Austrians and the BulgaH fans be hailed throughout the world as farcical? How then is the case of Greece any different from these?
 Since the beginning of the war Greece has been benevolently neutral towards the Allied Powers-not just simply neutral. One might say without fear of exaggeration that Greece has done everything but fight on the side of the Allies! But it is not enough that the Allied Powers have established naval and military bases on every foot of Greek soil that they have deemed necessary or use- full to them; nor that they maintain an army 5000 strong on Greek ter ritory in defiance of every principle of neutrality; nor that they exercise freely the right of search in Greek ports and Greek territorial waters; nor that they tamper, mot alone with the foreign but also with the domestic mails of Greece-they now seek {. to take a hand in the purely internal concerns of Greece. It is just as if Great Britain, on the ground that the United States were once an English colony were to demand that the Con- gross be closed, new elections held and the dismissal of the chief of po- lice of New York.
 "We are sure that America, who so far back as 1921 sent ships from Bos- ton laden with supplies to help our forefathers in their struggle for lib- erty. and who during our unhappy war of 1897 sent an expression of the sympathy of the Congress GO the Greek government, will not remain indifferent in the present moment of our trials. But what we need most is the influence of American public