The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-06
FORMER PREMIER
 OF GREECE TALKS SHARPLY TO KING
Address Adopted at Great Demonstration in Athens
 is a Vigorous Document.

London, Sept GA copy of the text of the remarkable address to King Constantine, which former Premier Venizelos drew up and which was ap- proved by the great Athens demon stration on Aug. 27, has reached L,on- don. The address in full follows:
 "Sire-You are the victim of persons who to destroy the work of the revo- lution of which we are today celebrat- ing the seventh anniversary and to re- establish their system of corrupt gov- ernment have not hesitated to exploit the respect which the nation owes to the crown and the love it bears for you, and are ready to imperil the work of regeneration achieved by five years of labor and two glorious wars in or der to strike at one of those who CO., operated in that work. You are the victim of your military advisers, who. taking a narrow military view and anxious to establish a system of ab- solutism which would make them in effect masters of the country, have convinced you that Germany will emerge victorious from the European war.
 Under German Influence
 Finally, you are the victim, of your natural and human weakness.l Accus- toned to admire everything German, astounded by this unparalleled mili- tary preparation as by every other German organization, not only have you believed in German victory, but you have desired it. You hoped that after a German victory you would be able to concentrate in your own hands the whole power of government and sweep aside our system, of liberty.
 Today we see the consequences of these blunders. Instead of expanding in Asia Minor, Thrace and Cyprus; of ending forever our quarrels of more than thousand years with our na- tional enemies; of creating Greece great, powerful, and rich, fulfilling our loftiest national dreams, we see the Bulgars invading Greek Macedonia, occupying Seres and towns and forts and making prisoners of detachments of the Greek army there, without our being at war declared or not declared with the invader.
 While we. receive them with the irony of friendly assurance, we see them seize our munitions of war which cost us hundreds of millions and which the Generthl Staff crimi- nally abandoned after our general de- mobilization. Although iour national enemy has mobilized, this war mater ial was left concentrated in towns near the frontier. and so became easy preysof the invading neighbor.
 From the position in which we placed Greece we see her today re- duced again to a position to which she was cast down before the revolu- ton. Instead of Greece being respect ed by friends and redoubtable to foes we see her today pitied by the one and despised, scorned, and chastised by tT:e other. Ignorant of the vital conditions of the group powers, in which alone Greece can, I do not say grow, but even live as a free state they are driving her to an assured q catastrophe.
 'Today's demonstration has been summoned to express the grief of the nations soul and to manifest in per feet order the nations anguish and anger at the misfortunes into which the country has been led and is still being led by the present policy. This demonstration seeks to enlighten you and to persuade you that in spite of perfidious efforts the nation does not approve what has been done, what ever they may say who surround you to appeal to your love of the father land to find the strength to break with the evil influences which, as we said exploit the love of the people for you and which are dragging you, and with your royal house, and Greece and the nation, to a national catastrophe.
 Elections Would Mask Civil War.
 Elections are due to take place so that the people may have national representation, but these elections alone cannot give a salutary solution of the question now in issue. So long as you permit. Sire, an unworthy use to be made of your name as an enemy of a great political party, what good can come from these elections which under such conditions do no more than mask an undeclared fratricidal war How could the Liberty Party carry out it's policy should it judge it neces- sary to do more than observe bene- volent neutrality as the Entente pow era Vlghtly ask of us, since the crimi-