Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-09-18
GREECE WILL NOT.
Be fine RESOURCE.
To entente ALLIES.

resources of Greece with respect to
that country's possible influence on the
outcome of the European war are set
forth in the following war geography
bulletin issued by the National eco
graphic Society:
Unlike Roumania, Greece will not
prove to be food resource of the En-
tente Allies. On the contrary, this the
most southerly of the Balkan nations
does not produce enough cereals to
feed her own people. Its chief agricul-
tural products-currants, the vine and
the olive-are to be classed among the
Injuries rather than the necessities.
Including the territories acquired
through the treaties of the First and
Second Balkan wars, Greece has an
area about equal to the combined areas
of Belgium, Holland and Denmark.
With the Albanian territory of North
Epirus, which the Entente Allies per-
mitted her to occupy in November, 1914,
her total area now exceeds $4,000
square miles, being about as large as
the State of Mississippi but with a
population (5,OOO,OOO) two and three
fourths as great, nearly approximating
that of Illinois.
Although Greece is in strained
financial circumstances her expendi-
lures in 1914 exceeding her revenues
by 31,600,O0O, she maintains an army
of $4,000 officers and men in peace
tines and it is estimated that by calling
out her reserves of all classes she can
put 100000 men in the field, while her
total available unorganized strnegth
adds half million to that number.
Greece's Military Service.
Military service in Greece, as among
practically all her neighbor nations, is
compulsory, and parliament has fixed
upon $4,000 recruits as the annual con-
tingent. The period of active service
required in the army is three years fro
cavalry and artillery and two years or
infantry. For 81 years after his active
training, which begins in his goth year,
the Greek citizen belongs to the first
reserves, and for eight years thereafter
he is listed among the second reserves
"a total of 81 years liability to mill
tary service. The equipment of the
inafntry is the Mannlicher- Schonauer
rifle, similar to the Roumanian small
arms. The field artillery is the
French Schneider-Canat quick firer.
America has an especial sentiment
al interest in Greece's small navy as
two of her strongest fighting units are
the Kilkis and the Lemnos, $4,000 ton
warships which were renamed after
having been purchased from our own
government in 1914 for $12,500, 900.
Launched as sister ships in 1904 they
were known in the American navy as
the Mississippi and the Idaho. Anoth or
Greek warship with an interesting his
tory is the 10000 ton Averoff, which
bears the name of Greek millionaire,
who, by provision of his will, left the
bulk of his fortune to his country for
the improvement of its navy. The two
modern warships are the George J,
(19,500 tons), and the Admiral Coun-
tourists $500 tons), both launched in
1914. A powerful battleship of 23,5OO
IONS displacement is now under con-
struction
"On the north and northwest Greece
abuts on Bulgaria, Serbia and Albania,
the frontier touching each of these
countries being about the same length.
III all other directions the peninsular
is waterbound So indented are its
shores that few places in the country,
save in Thessaly and Macedonia, are
as much as so miles from the sea, AMI
although it has about one-fifth the area
of the Spain-Portugal peninsular it
has longer coast line. With the long
range 15-inch rifles of the modern bat
tleship almost every part of the hts