The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-05
Germans and Austrians BERG
Hunted Down in Athens Ly
Armed Forces Of Allies
ALLIES TAKE OVER
ALL COMMUNICATION :
All Teutons Employed in E -
pionage or Corruption Mutt
Leave Country at Once.
German Agent Put on Ship

German Agent Put on Ship
London, Sept. 4.-The entrance
of Greece into the world war Is
only a matter of days. Her neu-
trality is thing Of the past. A
new dictator has arisen. No
longer her king or Venizelos, her
dominant politician, have any
word to say. Alexander ZaimiA
who holds the portfolio OF prem
Ter has seized the rcins OF power,
Greece has surrendered utterly ia
the ultimatum Of France and
Great Britain that her mails and
telegraphs be handed over to al.
lied supervision and that all Gers
man and Austrian agents be ex.
PEELED from the country. Already
French and British officials ars
taking over control of the postal
and wire systems.
Unprecedented scenes are taktrI
place in the streets of Athens.
Citizens of nations with whici
Greece is at peace are being huntt
down by armed attachments of 70.
eign soldiers and locked in the brig
of allied warships. An official of tia
Austrian legation was shot while rid
ing in his automobile by Brtis
Greatest Coup in Years.
The securing of power by Zaim.s
is one of the greatest political cours
accomplished in years. His entirS
hand has been played beneath the Ia
BILE. and 1t Is only now that the ma
ton is awakening to the fact that
! it's fate rests in his hands Zaimis
holds the most complete power Fl.
can do what he will without parlia-
mentary questioning or the edict Of
the King.
Zaimis made the first public move
u hts wsIl.P!anned campaign on la.t
! political gathering by the people. TN9s
days later he disposed of any danger
Of parliamentary interference through
the issuance of a decree dissolving tho
national body. Parliament had been
adjourned and elections will now be
necessary before new parliament
can sit.
Both Parties Give Approval.
Then began a series of conferences
with the Venizelos and anti-Venize-
lists, as a result of which Zaimis sue
ceeded in obtaining declarations OF
! approval and support from botn
| parties. He thereby gained for his
cabinet the complexion of a body APP
proved by all factions His hands are
now free. Behind the suffered win
dows of his Office he may take those
measures which will plunge the ma
ton into war within an hour. The
Constitution has been, to all intenfs
and purposes completely set aside.
And all this was done while the peo-
pie of Athens were watc hing the street
sights afforded by the arrest of Ger
mans and Austrians by French and
! British sailors.
| List of Demands Yielded
| The official press bureau tonight
| gave the demands presented to the
( Greek government by the French and
| British ministers and the reply OF
| Premier Zaimis, undertaking to grant
those demands.
The list follows:
! Control of the posts telegraph and
/ wireless system on the ground that
! they were being used by enemies OF
| the entente: demanded that agents OF
| the Teutonic allies employed in cor
ruption and espionage must immedi-
ately leave Greece and that meas
ures be taken against Greek subjects
guilty OF completely therein.
| The first. step of Greece towards
war is the publication OF an official
circular forbidding the emigration OF
| any male citizen between the ages OF
seventeen and forty.
That King Constantine is seriously
/ considering abdication In the face OF
recent events Is indicated in an Athens
dispatch to the Daily Telegraph. Al
though denying reports that last week
| he had threatened to quit his throne.
the monarch said:
! Il want it to be understood that
on the day when the Greeks no long,
err want me l shall retire with my
family to Germany"
! Zaimis, the man who has kidnapped
nation, is expected hourly to de-
clare for war by the German press
The Vossische Zeitung. according to
dispatches from Amsterdam. warns
the public to be ready for a declara-
ton of hostilties by Greece. This
German paper declares that tho
''allies note was really an ultimatum.~
| The most sensational event of all
the startling surface developments In
Greece occurred today when the Sec
rotary of the Austrian legation with
other officials Of the legation set out
In a motor car to visit Eleusis and
Siew the allied fleet OF that place.
According to a dispatch to the Daily
Telegraph British agents set out after
him in another motor car and ordered
him to stop After q short chase
shots were fred At the Austrian car.
1t stopped and the secretary with his
party surrendered to the armed pur-
suers. One Of the party had bean
wounded
TN addition to tho arrest Of the4
Austrian ofIlcial Baron Won 9heck.
German chief agent in Athens hao
allied warship together with num61&
OF his subordinates. Sixteen battle~
ships have Joined tho allied nsst MI
ready at Ptraeun. N1 DIT