The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-01-21
COMPARES HIS
SITUATION To
THAT IN BELGIUM
EXPRESSES THE OPINION
THAT GERMANY CANNOT
BE DEFEATED IN A MILL
TARY SENSE BY ALLIES.
WAR WILL END IN A DRAW
This Is the Opinion Expressed
by King of Gre ce-A Reply
Has Been Male t. Statement
by French AuthoritI.
WAR WILL END IN A DRAW

ATHENS, Jan. Is (via Paris, Jan.
1S-delayed) king Const ntine to-
day sent for a correspondent. in order
to express to the newspapo Of the
United States, as he said, his Profound
indignation at what he tern ed the
unheard-of high-handedness o! the re-
cent action of the allies toward
Greece"
He was greatly moved as he cited
one after the other long lists OF hat
he called "the allies encroachL. nts
on the sovereignty of Greece, cul
minating in the occupation of Corfu
and the blowing up of the bridge at
Demir-Hiassar."
1T is the merest can't" said the
king, "for Great Britain and France to
talk about the violation of the neu-
trality of Belgium and Luxembourg
after what they themselves have done
and are doing here. | have tried in
every way know how to get fair play
in the British and French press and
to obtain fair hearing from the Brit
ish and French public. No sooner had
the British newspapers attacked
Greece with the most amazing perver-
sion of act and Misrepresentation Of
motives than | called one Of their cor
respondents and gave him face to face
a full statement of Greeces position.
| have given a most frank statement
to the French press through one Of
the French newspapers which had
been most bitterly attacking Greece.
The only forum of public opinion open
to me is that of the United States. The
situation is far too vital for me to
care snay about royal dignity in the
matter of interviews when the very
life of Greece as an independent coun-
try is at stake. l shall appeal to
America again and again if necessary
for that fair hearing which is denied
to me by the countries of the allies.
Just look at the list Of Greek ter
ritory already occupied. by the allied
troops-Lemnos, Imbros, Mytilene,
Castelloriza, Corfu, Saloniki, includ-
ind the Chalcidicid peninsula and a
large part of Macedonia. In proper
ton to all Greece, it is as if that part
of the United States which was won
from Mexico after the Mexican war
were occupied by foreign troops
and not so much as by your leave.
What matters it if they promise too
pay for the damage done when the
war is over. They cannot pay for the
sufferings of my people driven out of
their homes. They plead military ne
cessity. 1t was under the constraint
of military necessity that Germany
invaded Belgium and occupied Lux
emburg.
at is no good claiming the neu-
trality of Greece was not guaranteed
by the powers now violating it as was
the case in Belgium, for the neutral
ity of Corfu is guaranteed by Great
Britain, France Russia, Austria and
Prussia, and yet that has not made
any different in their action. And
what about that plea of military ne
cessity? Where is the military neces-
sity of destroying the Demir Hiassar
bridge, which cost a million and a
half drachme and which was the only
pracJlcdI route ny Which, we IeNlc-
tual my troops in eastern Mace
donia? The bridge was mined; it
could have been blown up on mo-
ments notice at the enemy's ap-
proach.
1T is admitted that there was no
enemy anywhere near the bridge and
no indication that any was coming
What military reason was there
therfore, to blow up the bridge now
except to starve out the Greek troops
around Series Dramma? Where is
the necessity for the occupation OF
Corfu? If Greece is the ally of Ser
via, so also is Italy and transporta-
ton of Serbs to Albania and Italy