The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-31
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0DRIVEG REEcFTo WAR

X ATHENS. Mareh y A. Cor fespohd dent
IL The Associated Press - Greece is
much more likely to be starved into
var than Germany Is TO be starved out
If it,y said a prominent oficihl .of the
preseDt Greek government to The As
ociated Press correspondent. Tho ex'
ression Is scarcely accurate, for while
me prices Of the ordinary eonmodities
81 life, and especially fo0dstuffs, have
n many instanges doubled and in vir.
finally all instances greatly Increased
IN, the past year, the fault, Is largely
with Greece. III there be- serious dis
;omfort IN the country II Is quite as
much due 10 bad internal management
ia 70 the mastepY 81 the Mediterfanean
maintained 81 the rahco:-British feet
FEeaH' stSrvfhgS process, taefefore, i
much more apt to lead to trouble for
he. present Greek cabinet than, unac
;omPahied by any. other circumstance
20 Greece's enforced participation in
the war. 3" sb.l.s,
Meat Prices Soaring
b Mpttop, the principal meat consumed
IN Greece, waf ten cents q pound 0
year, ago; now it fetches nineteen
cents and Greece supplies her owl
mutton and to spare. Beef was nine
md six tenths cents; now it is twenty
me cents a pound. Pork was twelve
md three.tenths cents, now H. is nine
teen cents; chickens were fifty-eiRht
tents; now they. bring. seventy two
sents-and the beef, pork and chickens
lohstmed IN Greece are raised II
freeze. Fresh Ash, in a country wher,
fshing Is one Of the leading occupa
ions, brought thirteen and a half cent:
20 ,ffteeh cents a year ago-and nov
hn from seventy. ave cents to one dol
ar and eight cents.
In some INSTANCES this anamolop
ituation'i i dde TO the control exercised
W the Allied feet over the eomhisfc,
II the Mediterranean, Notably ha'
his been tho ease with coal and, unit
seeentlk with, petrolepni. II Is not tina
She Allied Powers deliberately hold III
shipments of coal from Greece in orde
70 cripple, Greek Internal transports
ave none tod much eoal TO spare ant
certainly no very great number Of yes
'els available for itsfcarriage. If Goa
is high ip Greece. SO II Is /, also il
France; but the French government 'ha
had the foresight TO provide agains
anything like aPe0al famine, while tn,
ireek government has not, ...-
Mobilization Il DISASTROUS
Outside Of the very, questionable in
tegrity and the understandable inefiiei
ency with which Greece's resources ar,
oartitioned, the next leading canse o
the rise In the cost Of living IN Gree ;,
has been the mobilization, With al
the most able-bOdied men OF the coun
try under arms, men are lacking an,
labor Is too high. The extraordinar,
advance in the fresh fish market is}du,
largely TO the fact that the great r par
Of the fishermen OF Greece are mobil
zed. Transport facilities are cripplet
for the same reason quite, as much q
on account Of the coal famine. Div
| oil has risen in Athens from two and
half cents in JANUARY, 1918, to sixteei
and four-tenths cents in January, 1915
owing to the scarcity Of field laborer
for Greece exports olive oil In NJ rma
| times. In every branch OF the eco
n6nic life OF Gfeece labor in wanting
Prices go np,f The bread.winher /
away, so that the income of the poo
goes down. >, Everywhere. the peopl
luffer. Meanwhile 100000 men O
Greece, soldiers ct q cent a day, marci
along the hills OF Maeedo ION 'a--reo srm
ing bet produeing nVthing-not" ever
glory,