Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-23
fever OF REVOLT 1.
!. SPREADS IN GREECE
venizeIos May Go to Revolt
tionary District, Thereto :.
Organize Rebellion. 4
NATION TO ENTER WAR IF
DEMANDS ARE ACCEPTED
Athens Placarded With Such An.
peals as Draw Sword, King,
or Abdicate." ~

LONDON, September 23.-Ths Greek
situation continues complex Athens
reports that definite proposals have
been made to the entente, acceptance
of which will insure the entry of
Greece into the war. Former Premier
Venizelos, strong partisan of the en-
tente, is quoted as declaring that II
the government controlled by the court
party. does not act, the nation itself
must defend its own interests.
The revolutionary fever is reported
spreading, but a mutiny on one of the
ships of the Greek navy, the ,armored
cruiser Averoff, is declared to have
been quelled. -
Revolt in Macedonia.
Further disorders in Greek Macedo-
mia, where a revolutionary movement
has been in progress for some time.
were reported. A dispatch from Koz-
hani Ga town Of some 10000 inhabit-
ants. ffty-flve miles southeast of
Monastir), says the Greek civil author
tiles have been removed from office by
the inhabitants. The police chief and
Maj. Karapanos. the military govern
or, with q company. of the 31st Regi-
ment of the line. are said to have join
ed the uprising. 90
May Organize Revolt. -
After saying that the removal of the
Greek censorship will permit Of the
truth being told, the correspondent at
Athens of the Daily Mail hints at the
likelihood Of former Premier Venice
los leaving Athens shortly for one of
the districts where a revolution has
been started, where he will be able to
organize the whole revolutionary move
ment
correspondent, lis now only a name.
Saloniki,s Thasos, Lemnbs Chios, Sa-
mos and Mytilene no longer are gov
erned from Athens. Crete and. Cy-
lamations of independence has been is
sued in Epirus: the Larissa district is
biding It's time while Phucis and AGAR
mania are wavering.
Kings Authority Passing.
"Only Athens and Peloponnesus ono
READ remain, and Athens is placarded
with such appeals as Draw the sword,
king, or abdicate.' These and similar
appeals appearing on placards and in
the press or made from the platform
20 unpublished and it is evident that the
kings authority is almost gone. Houses
in Athens stored with arms for revolu-
tionary purposes are openly guarded.
and the king does not dare openly to
challenge the least act OF VenizeloS If
VeniZelos chooses to leave Athens to
lead a separate government ELSEWHERE,
no one will oppose him" ,s
venizelos' Statement. -.
Former Premier venizelos Of Greece.
in an interview cabled from Athsns to
the Petit Journal, declares that the
Greeks must defend their nattoAaa in
terests regardless Of the government.
M. venizelos is quoted as .saying:As
: Although Rumania 9 entersdg the
struggle, the court party which governs
US seems to persist in the policy Of
what it calls neutrality. This policy is
persisted in even after the shameful
Kavala incident. You ask me what the
future will bring. I am not in the
position to answer. but certainly some
thing must be attempted II Greece does
not wish to die.
What was done at SaIonfxi. though
improvised and precipitste. and recent
manifestations in the islands OF the
archipelago, show that every one real
ICES that IL the government has forgot
ten its duty toward the nation the
nation must itself Immediately take in
hand the defense OF Its own htsrests."