Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-04
BULGARIA'S INVASION OF GREECE

The crisis in Greece has been precipi
tated by the invasion of the Bulgars.
AS 1t was written It has hap
A World pened. The crisis is not only
Greek crisis. but is mon
C1lsls. dial" for the world is inter-
ested in the fate of Greece.
The dispatches dating from the 2sth
ultimo announce the invasion Of Greek
territory and the occupation of several
forts in Greek Macedonia. Even II II
should prove true. as reported in later
dispatch, that the invasion was made
as the result Of secret formal agree
situation could not modify. but augment.
the gravity of the crisis.
Intense excitement and rioting in Ath-
ems, It is said. has reached point which
necessitated the interference Of the mill
tary to aueIl the riot. guard the palace
and protect the king
The gravity Of the crisis in Greece de-
mandr an untrammeled examination or
the conditions. which are manifestly psy-
choloeical 1t requires the aid of Greek
to assist us in an examination OF a ques-
ton which is obscure to almost all out
side of Greece itself. First OF all. we
know that there are two great parties in
Greece, the party that follows the king
and the party that espouses the cause Of
the people.
NJ Maccas is our Greek guide. and he
tells US what is necessary to the compre-
henson of the Greek situation. namely :
The system Of German ideas and anti
German ideas are found in Greece as
they confront each other on European
battleields.
NJ Maccas presents the German ide-
ology In Greece briefly thus: The king
studied in Germany. married the sis
tor of the kaiser: the king considers
militarism al the necessary founoation
less absolute is the only regime which
can guarantee the interests of coun-
try.
This German theology is comba ted
with fury by the great majority of the
Greek people who are
Ar%; -H.r~o, familiar with the acts
of France, England and
oentlment. Russia. who have pro-
tected them against the Turk: by the
liberal party which came into power in
1910, and which gave to the Hellenes
an army and raised up it's political eco
nomical power: also secured the tr1-
umph in the Balkanic wars attributed
naturally to NJ. Venizelos: by Greeks
in finance, commerce and industry: by
Greeks in foreign lands. in Egypt. in
IA hi q 10
Furnishing colonies. and have acquired
occidental ideas.
The opposition of these two systems
produced the Greek crisis in 1915. and
its recrudescence at the present mo-
ment
The Austro-German aggression marked
the political origin of the crisis in 1915.
AS soon as the Austro-Serb war was
declared and before Russia had es-
poused the cause of Serbia. Greece was
on the point of proceeding to a par
tial mobilization of her troops, fact
not generally known. The Russian
mobilization, the Grecophile assurances
from Vienna and the Austrophiie sym
pathies of NJ. STREET., Greek minister of
foreign affairs, prevented the publlca-
ton.
NJ Venizelos, absent at the time of the
declaration of the Austro-Serb war. re-
turned to control Greek policy and lend
it direction toward the triple entente
and to Serbia.
August is, 1914. NJ Venizelos proposed
to France. with the consent of the king.
momentarily converted to NJ. Venizelos'
opinions, the aid of Greece. The SEN
timent then throughout Greece was
unanimously in favor of the triple en-
tente and Serbia.
The reasons of the disaccord among
the representatives of the entente
with reference to the collaboration of
Greece in the Dardanelles expedition
have not been disclosed. 1t is rumored
that the English admirals commanding
wished to impose on the Hellenic naval
staff their own project of forcing the
straits. ignoring the project submitted
by the two superior Greek officers. who
proceeded to Malta and suggested the
idea of marching on Constantinople in
operating debarkment at Dedea-
Catch.
This incident and the veritable Ger
manophile cabals at the royal palace at
Athens brought about
Venizelos' the explosion OF the
Hellenic crisis. which