Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-28
REPORTED GREECE
HAS MADE OFFER
TO JOIN ENTENTE
Venize|os Said to Be on Verge
of Taking the Leadership of
One of Numerous Grow
ing RevoIts.
TROUBLE is WIDESPREAD
King Said to Have Been Shorn
of All But Semblance Of
His Power-Develop-
ments Near.
TROUBLE is WIDESPREAD

Athens. Sept. %, (via London. Sept.
2b).-The Greek government Is said on
the best authority to have telegraphed
definite proposals to the entente capi-
tails which, IL accepted, will mean
Greece's entry into the war. If the
uncertainty Of the relations between
Greece n the entente continues it Is
regarded as not improbable that Greece
may declare war on Bulgaria on her
account. Semiofficial efforts of the
cabinet to obtain from the entente
ministers here a statement rs to h
desire of the allied governments have
been Ruthless. The ministers were
given to understand that as many as
three members Of the Greek cabinet
were ready to resign IL the entente
wished. The sole reply was that in
struction had not peer received.
London, Sept. 26.-After saying that
the removal of the Greek censorship
will permit the truth being told. the
Mail hints at the likelihood of forlner
Premier Venizelos leaving Athens
shortly for one Of the districts where
a revolution has been started, where he
will be able to organize the whole
revolutionary movement.
The Kingdom Of Greece" says tho
correspondent. "is now only q name.
Saloniki. Thasos. Lemnos. Chios, Sa-
mos and Mytilene no longer are gov
erned from Athens. Crete and Cycla-
des are about to follow suit. A procla-
nation Of independence has been is
sued In Epirus, the Larissa district is
biding Its time, while Phocis and Ac-
arnanta are wavering.
Only Athens and Pora remain, n
Athens Is placarded with such appeals
as draw the sword, king, or abdicate.'
1t Is evident that the kings authority
stored with arms for revolutionary
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 sep
arate government elsewhere no one will
oppose him.
London. Sept. %. Athens is filled
with ruinors that 300 men Of the crew
Of the cruiser Averotf have mutinied,
according to a telegram to the Ex-
say the remainder Of the crew and de-
tachments Of marines were sent away
in boats. Other ships OF the fleet are
said to have quelled the mutiny.
II Averoff is an armored cruiser
built in 1910. She carries n crew Of
$50 men.
Paris. Sept. 25.--Former Premier
Venizelos. of Greece, in an interview
cabled from Athens to the Petit Jour-
nal, declares that the Greeks must de-
fend their national interests regardless
pr the government. M. Venizelos is
quoted as saying: although Rumania
entered the struggle, the court power
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
something must be attempted, If Greece
does not wish to die.
What was lone at Saloniki, though
~improvised and precipitate, and recent
manifestations in the Islands Of the
archipelago. show that everyone re-
Allies that, If the government has for
gotten it's duty toward the nation. the
nation must Immediately take In hand
the defense Of its own interests"