Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-21
GREEK KING SENDS
PROTEST TO U. S.
Monarch Says Entente Has FIRE.
quently Violated the Neutral
ity Of Greece.
FRENCHMAN MAKES ANSWER

NEW YORK. Jan. 2O.-The king
OF Greece late on Thursday sum
moned the Associated Press CORE
spondent in Athens for the purpose
Of making a protest through the
press OF the United States, which he
said was the only form of public
opinion open to him against the re-
cent action of the allies in their op-
erations at Saloniki in blowing up
the bridge at Demir Hissar, in occu-
plying Corfu and other islands which
Greece claims.
He said the situation is as II foreign
power had occupied that part OF the
United States which had been won from
Mexico after the Mexican war, and that
the plea OF military necessity advanced
by the allies was like that given by Ger
many for invading Belgium and Luxem-
burg. II is the nIerest cant, the king de-
clared, for Great Britain and France to
talk about the violation OF the neutrality
OF Belgium ana Luxemburg in view Of
what they had done ana arc doing them
NN'fN'f @AN hNHAIh Ant neCtEHllY
for the blowing Up OF the bridge or for
occupation OF Corfu. and he also chal-
lenged them on the contention that Sob
marines OF the Teutonic allies are being
supplied from Greek base.
Greek Sentiment Turns.
He said that the allies in p,qde over the
failure OF all their calculations in the
HaIkana W. 70 4VnrN a.
me result OF their own stupidity, and that
~ per cent Of tho Greeks at the begin
ming OF the war were in favor of the
aliies' but now not 20 per cent would turn
their hand to render them aid.
King Constantine did not feel that he
could afford 70 demobilize while the fate
OF Saloniki is undecided. and while he
did not think It probable that Germany
could be victorious IN the sense that Il
could take London, Paris or Petrograd
he believed 1t would be difficult n not
impossible, to conquer Germany in n milf
tary way IL economic conditions did not
force 1t TO sue for peace. He said. finally
In his opinion, the war would end IN a
draw. ~ .
Inc interview with the king was trans
mltted from Athens on January IL but
was sent out from Paris only on January
10 at 8;4o D, m. On January Is. at an
carrier hour the highest French author
ty-Whose personality is not otherwise
inoicated-gave an interview to the An
ISOLATED Press in reply to the statements
made by the Greek king. This author
lty denies any parallel between the Ger
man invasion of Belgium and Iuxem-
burg and the temporary use Of certain
poinls In greece, which does not consti-
tute an occupation, properly speaking.
ana which use was made for the most
part with the tacit consent OF Greece.
Tho allies. he said, only went to SalonikI
to aid Greece's ally. Serbia, ana to take
up treaty obligations which Greece did
not fulfill.
During the recent months, he added
the Greek government permitted Ger.
mans and Austrians TO violate its neu.
trality by using the Greek islands and
coasts AZ a base for provisioning theIf
submarines. The charges about the bridge
at Demir Hissar were without founda-
ton, the French authority said, and the
| question OF the sympathies OF the Greek
people was proved by their action at the
recent elections and their attitude towards
M. Venizeios. tho friend OF tho entente.
The authority points cut that while
the king declares he cannot demoblllzs,
he forgets TO add that the allies con-
tinue, Mt his request, to advance money
TO Greece for its mobilization. As for
the kings opinion regarding the result
OF the war. the authority says It is pleas
ant that a sovereign. who Is so Impressed
by Germanys strength should publicly
admit that 1t cannot be victorious. which
shows how right impartial people are in
claiming that it will be- crushed.