Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-22
VENIZELOS HINTS
AT REVOLUTION TO
AID ALLIED CAUSE
|Former Greek Premier May
Lead Revolt to Force
Intervention
SCORES KINGS S TAN
Shows Plight of Greece as Re-
suit of Passive
Policy

ATHENS, sept ~.
-, the King will not hear the voice OF
=. roopie. we must ourselves decide what
70 DO"
with these words Eleutherios VeniEelos,
..-,,.r Premier, answered n question re-
-.ra,rr the truth OF reports that he is going
d sslonIca to put himself at the head Of
tsmporary revolutionary government He
continued
~ must walt a brief time yet and see
hat the Government proposes TO do before
x.,,d,nr on the course Il will be best to
.sor, IN the event that Greece does not
,nter the war.
=, ao not know what our decision as to
A.. wisest course will be, but a long con-
,,ruatIon of the present situation would be
,a,olerable Already we have suffered all
49, axonies of a disastrous war. while re-
naming neutral
ARMY's, MORALE DESTROYED
.~ya have had ten months OF mobiliza-
.aar with all the consequent herdships TO
,ha families OF the men mobilized, whlle
nth Fr,alkan wars only included thirteen
.-ortha with greater funds available FOR
~ relief of the families of the soldiers.
Our boundaries have been invaded; towns,
srors and farms have been destroyed, and
all horrors enacted
eve have had all the financial burdens
AZ war and the cost of maintaining use
isss mobilization. The morale of the army.
which three years ago was at tne topnoss
nltch has been destroyed by inaction and
Z now completely gone Then we had a
victorious now we have beaten army.
.we even have more than an entire
.ymv corps of Greeks held prisoners of
war in a foreign country, and already we
have paid the Bulgars an immense war
Indemnity amounting in military equip
msnt. property destroyed, and loot of
Greek cities occupied, to over s4o,00o,0oo.
And finally we are, perhaps, on the verge
of making now, at last that war which
~ have not fought. but have paid for in
blood tears and treasure.
"And IL Greece does not enter the war;"
Ae was asked.
TEUToN GUARANTEES BROKEN
III the German Bulrags are successful" !"
replied NJ. Venizelos, certainly all of
Macedonia is lost to us. You have seen
what the German-Bulgar guarantees are
worth in their written pledge that they
would not occupy Kavala, Drama or Seres
III the Entente Allies are victorious, as
profoundly believe they will be. we risk
frst. a separate peace between the Allies
and the Bulgars, whereby the latter may
be permitted to retain the Greek territory
they nave OCCuple0 WIN luo SOhSehb VI
Greece.
'or, In the event of a complete allied
conquest of Bulgaria, why should the Serbs.
for example, return to u.s. who have not
Kept our treaty alliance with them, those
parts Of Greek Macedonia they and their
allies have not taken from us, who gave
them up unresisting, but which would then
have been reconquered at the point of the
bayonet from the BuIgars to whom we had
surrendered them?"
"And Salonica?" It was suggested,
who is to say" replied NJ. Venlzelos,
that the Entente Allies may not consider
the circumstances necessitating the ulti-
matum of June 21 were also of a character
to nullify the Allied Powers previously
given guarantee of Greek integrity?
who is going to plead Grece's case in the
peace conference, II we are not represented
therein? Who is ever going TO think of
Greece, save with shame, IL we have stood
idly by while half the world has battled for
elvlzation?"