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M. VENEZELOS AND HIS

KING.

GREECE'S GRAND OLD MAN ON.

HIS DEFENCE.

The organ of M. Venczelos, the Kyriz up Herald, devoted five columns to a re- view of the political situation in (rence Although the article is anonymous, it no secret that it emanates from the able

and caustic pen of the leader of the Liberal party, says Mr. Donohue,

It was the writer's intention, he says, to bare discussed at length the King's recent reputed interview with the corre spondent of a German newspaper, but it is anounced that this subject will be dealt with at length next week.

In the article there are some sharp thrusts at the Government, while the ruler of the State himself does not escape criticium. After referring to the uncon stitutional methods which are so glori in by the present Cabinet, the write charges the Government with using the King as a mouth piece for the distribu tion of interviews, regardless whether they are detrimental to the interest of the State or prejudicial to the Crown itself, Of which latter the Liberal party have

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17TH, 1915,

GERMAN LOSSES AT VERDUN. NOT LESS THAN 200,000 MEN

We have received from a thoroughly reliable source the following particulars regarding the German losses, before Ver dun, says the Daily Telegraph of April 10th. The statement, it will be observed, covers the period of forty days from February 21st to April 1st. Figures quoted from the German casualty lists give the total asses reported in these lists since the beginning of the war at 2,730,017.

Writton documents, evidence, and many declaratiurs checked by authoritative information now make it possible to establish definitely the losses of the Ger- mans on the Verdun front between Feb ruary 91st and April lat.

They have been very great-so great that the startled German General Staff. to counteract the depression which thesis new and unavailing sacrifices will cause

KAISER'S OIL FOUNTAIN,

SECRET BUBMARINE BASE IN

CORFU

Jean Dimis-Oghlon, formerly 'n Greek officer of the Anatolian Volunteers, who, the 22,000 reward offered by the British Government for information leading to the Montreal Daily Star states, has won

the discovery of enemy submarine bases how 30,000 gallons of oil were hidden in in the Egean,

describes in that journal

and Austrian submarines, the Kaiser's Palace at Corfu for Germa

me

FOOD RIOTS IN GERMANY.

DUTCH JOURNAL'S ENQUIRY.

The Nieure Courant states:In con ection with the many rumours of hunger riots in Cologne and Berlin, in counce, guns were said to have been fired at the crowd, we have endeavoured to get some tion with which even mitrailleuses and

definite information. At Cologne serious women, but no firearms were used to put disturbances bave indeed been caused by them down. The mitrailleuses and guns seen at Cologne were the trophies per- public was not allowed on that occasion themanently exhibited there. The outsido to leave the railway station, but this hap- pened before, when the transport of troops or wounded took place,

After the French landed on island," he says, the report spread like a whirlwind that they had discovered 30,000 gallons of oil in the cellar of the marble palace. We gasped with surprise

of us ridiculed it. In the afternoon 1 bent direct to the palace and asked the French sentry if throughout the empire. is endeavouring Dimis-Oghlou was subsequently

this report

it Play St, and he told to maintain that, for once, thanks to Ger- Jenn man methods, the losses of the attacking conducted over the palace. In the fores have been less than those of the centre of the courtyard," he writes, was defence. This falsity the facts dispre; a huge fountain, unlike anything I have a low examples will suffice to show seen in all my travels. The officer in charge told me that it was seventy feet across. As we proceeded towards the outwardly carving sige of this gigantic fountain observed that the water in

Answered the French

It is known that two Army Corps, the 3rd and the 18th, were withdrawn for re- constitution from the front, having left

been the jealous guardians ever since the third of their effectives. On their foit was stagnant a

new ruime began in 1909.

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on the field in the first attacks at least a

M. Venerelos proceeds to justify his line, they again suffered similar losges.

sppearance reconstituted, in the firing oil," acts and his politics, and to rebut many The reinforcements of the German armies, charges brought against hin. carmies, he says, are pursuing a wild battlefield In all, the 18th Army Corps His indeed, melt away as they arrive on the and vague policy which is likely to bring lost 17,000 men, the 3rd 2,000 men disaster to his country. It is pointed Exact figures can be given regarding

ut that after the withdrawal of M Venczelos from the Cabinet in February, came on the soche north of Vaux about the 121st Division of Infantry, which

landing of the French on our island every In the succeeding two days of the

man submarine agents was unearthed. detail of the secret working of the Ger

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The cause of these disturbances, it is said, is not a shortage of food. Of course,

to enlighten and reassure the people as there is no abundance. The Government recognizes this fully in a letter, intended

to the organisation of the food supply. There is no danger of famine, this letter says. But the remnant of the over sea imports has gradually been consumed, and can only be reinforced sparingly frm the Balkans. The reduction of meat and fat, which was foreseen a year ago, has become a necessity now. To the household dificulties as to the choice of food, the worry of the high prices has Geen added.

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engineers had laid a two-mile-long pine errate friction between the ruler and M.Begiment of Reserve was mown down by rain in the courtyard of Achilleion with need of food that required cooking arose, Venezelos. The present administration the French machine-guns in an attack on a sunken metal oil-tank far away in the these women were at the end of their re- never lost an opportunity, heedless of the national interests, of attempting to widen the beach between the Liberal leader

and the King.

WHOSE ELOQUENCE

In a quotation from the recent Germant interview with his Majesty, the latter is reported to have charged M. Venezelos with a superabundance of imagination inden ing with the Allies, and to be swayed by emotionaliara.

Chapa

In further extracts from the interview his Majesty is reported to have declared that when Sir Edward Grey's offer of compensation in Asia Minor was made to rerce us the price of her assistance Serbia, M. Venczelne went to the Cham bor and drew a vivid picture of the new Herritory and described its flocks and herds as if they were actually before his

the approaches to the fort, which had no result. The same thing happened to the Goth Regiment, which lost 56 per cent. of its effectives. The 19th Infantry Begi ment, on March 8th, attacking the village Vaux, had similar loss. Its 13th Com houses in the village. The 1st Battalion pany was surprised and annihilated in

regiments of infantry of the 11th Eava was reduced by 60 per cent. The three rian Division, which led the attack on Malancourt and Avocourt Woods on March 20th and 22nd, lost 50 to 60 st cent. of their men. The four Landwehr- regiments of the 2nd Divisions suffered

similar loss.

channel at Corfu

The prominent people of Corfu assert now that the Germans had in the past, every now and then imported some old statues, buried these under ground, and then unearthed them for the purpose of justifying their excavation expeditions on such a large scale.

read and butter was consequently no- where felt so

sharply as there

sources, and the limitation in the use of

FEELING. IN GERMANY, revelation of the state of public feeling The Lokalanzeiger has a remarkable

an article entitled "Hold" "Your olive Tonguesheet WAL

oil storehouse owned by a German, which The writer next describes a bogus olive

It is the duty of everyone who cannot apparently played a great part in connecterve his Fatherland with weapons to ad tion with the Kaiser's oil tank, as hun vance all measures directed to be main dreds of casks, supposed to be empty, tenance of the national will and to main- were found to be filled with petroleum. tein a good spirit. Unhappily this is not generating purposes, were taken to the perers are found exerting quite a contrary ** These casks, filled with oil for power the case everywhere. Pessimistic whis-

These were losses sustained in the course.

interior of the depot. There they were influence. At one time they are anxious of an attack. Besides, the regiments in emptied into a large tank which was con because the British bavo instituted con nected through underground pipes laid scription, and therefore may become spe the trenches or in reserve sustained losIES. from French artillery fire every siny 1+many years ago, with the ostensible excially dangerous. Then they worry about is known that in the case of certain For

cuse of excavating, with the fountain in the fat carda or more meatless days. Far the courtyard of the palace of Achilleion worse are those who talk about our in- Ban regiments these losses we o very In reply to this the Herald article says beavy. The 37th Regiment of Infantry,

From there another pipe system extended terior affairs, those from whom one thit the writer does not desire to dwell

for instance, surprised by the French fire this pipe supplied a large sunken tank.

underground far away to the sea, while hears: We cannot carry on much findaly upon the incident, but he must during a change of position, lost 500 men," The Austro-German submarines that

longer. We are in need everywbare, need point but that all this talk about Mand was so tried by the experience that have made so much havoc in the Mediter bread, corn, etc. Where are we going to? of eattle for meat, of butter, of fat for Verlezeles flight of imagination in simply it was unable, on March 10th, to make ranean until recently were in the habit of In some months our supplies will cor- an inexactitudo put into the King's the attack on the village of Vaux which submerging right on mouth by big advisers."

it was to undertake, an the 18th Regi- tank out in the channel.

of this sunken tainly be at an end." Other persons never machine guns. ment had been decimated by the French

tiferences of opinion between the Kaiser ize of tolling each other that there are

and Hindenburg. They say that the „Kaiser wishes a decision on the Western front, but that Hindenburg is preparing for it in the East. All these stories are spun from idle brain. To thesu wide- spreaders spreading stupid rumours about threatened starvation or a growing want of raw-materials, we say that they care serving our enemies: with their

tongues. Let them be silent.

His Majesty, it is added, must be aware that the fundamental policy of M. Ven zelos, after the two Balkan wars, was 21st to April 1st the Germans had engaged During the forty days from February pesce and tranquillity, and owing to the on the Verdun front between Avccourt. halance of power created by end Eparges 239 battalions of infantry, Bucharest Treaty, Greece found it pos able to direct her energies towards in ternal reforms and organisation,

Nevertheless, there was always the fear. that Bulgaria and Turkey united might sok to take their revenge upon Gretce WAS THE TREATY OF 1913 FINAL

Many

Since February 21st no fewer than

It is believed in Corfu that in storing such great quantities of oil the Germans ing vessels as well as submarines. had in view the needs of other oil-burns

GERMANY'S HELMET.

MR. RUNCIMAN EXPLAINS.

HIS POLICY.

THE CHANCELLOR'S DESINE,

We must prevent Germany from THE O

relations with us for purposes of aggres- again raising her helmet. We object to her using her resources and commercial inn, as she did in preparation for this of the Board of Trade, in an interview war declared Mr. Runciman, President

with Mr. W. 8. Forrest; of the United

panies plus twenty-three battalions of representing at least 1,075 infantry com pioneers of three companies, or 1,145 om specially strengthened. Before the attack panies in all. These companies had been

they numbered in some cases 200 men and the average number of men in a company may be taken at 230 men; so that the fronted Greece at the outbreak of the alone, 296.000 men, we than Anxious Blato problexis un "arme de choe numbered, in infantry European war for instance, Rumania declared to Greece that she did not cighty battalions have been withdrawn longer consider the Treaty of Bucharest to be reconstituted the others were as giving the necessary stability, and that the balance of power in the Balkans

inforeeit where they stood. It is under- would need to be sot upon a fresh basis. fanter engaged in the action has number America,

Estimating the facts to say that the in

States of America, published throughout Then there was the Turkish problemed nearly 450,000, and the statements of When the Turks joined the Central prisoners collated and checked lead to Minister," that at the conclusion of the

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nced," said the Powers, and there was no longer any danger of an isolated attack on Greece by

the conclusion that at least a third of the war she will attempt to establish a Turkey, Greece, with an eye on the

infantry engaged were lost. That is to Customs Union of the Central Powers on future, sought the interest of the Entente

say, in the first line alone 160,000 men aggressive lines. This can only meen

50,000 zn Fowers on the question of Greek terri-

have fallen

that they intend to follow up the present torial concession in Asia Minor.

But the German losses do not stop there. war by an economic war. If this is a All the evidence points to the fact that deliberate object we, and the Allies, will Before any territorial concession could the German artillery, of which the woods know how to meet an aggressive war of be defined, it was first necessary to ap pouse Bulgaria, but the negotiations fell those of infantry, who do not take a

wore full, suffered losses cumparable to this nature, just as we met her bostile action during the past twenty months. though, for M. Venezelos wie unable to direct part in the assault. But we shall be better prepared for this discover any clear atmosphere at

Besides this the French long range guns threatened economic war, and we are So It was grossly unfair to accuse have dealt destruction among the troops much obliged to Germany for giving us M. Venezelos of being swayed by his carrying on various army services behind warning beforehand. The economic war imagination, since the Powers furnished the line. On the most moderase estimate which she threatens would be a perma a written guarantee that they were pre-

nent barrier to the peaceful development pared to recogniso Greek territorial as-

the conclusion is reached that the losses

of Europe pirations in Asia Minor.

of the Germans before Verdun cannot have been less than 200,000 men. It was reported that the German General Staff came to the decision that the taking of Verdun by the Crown Prince was worth the sacrifice of 200,000 of the Kaiser's sub jects. This figure was exceeded, and the

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TWO KINGS IN 1919 AND 1015. Coming to Greece's attitude towards Berbia, the writer asks what would have George bad en september 1818, King ucted as did King Constan- tine in 1916 What would the world have said if King George, at the last moment, had declined to side with the other Bal kan States, and left them to fight the

it clear to Germany that the longer this Tark, and probably to be beaten on the

war continues the less will be her chance ground that the Turk was too strong for

of recoupment out of the profits of for all four Powers His Majesty ought to

eign markets, we aim at shortening the defence, and the disclosure which this I aware that imagination is a necessary

war. Everything which tends to preserve war has provided of the complete Junker her wealth is likely to lengthen the war policy at home and abroad is a lesson Factor of a statesmen's mind; it is indis An exchange of notes took place be pensable that a stateman should not fail tween Baron Bonnino, Minister for man's attention to his recent statement ESOURCES DEVELOPED,

The correspondent called Mr. Runci that none of the Allies will over forget. to perceive things under his very nose,

Foreign Affairs, and the British Am in the House of Commons that the Allies Discussing what is termed the premit bassador regarding certain questions at

could never allow Germany to again raise Mr. Runciman looks forward to great ing policy of Greece, the writer empha-issue between the two Governments re- her head.g

trade activity after the war, sises the danger which a Greater Bulgaria garding Egypt. The Italian Govern- Mr Runciman replied "What I really" The efficiency of the British working will cause to Greece. Have the Greeks, muent has agreed to a prolongation of ought to have said was, The question of man has been raised during the war. The he aske, a guarantee from Germany tha the Mixed Tribanale, while the British her raising her helmet I' We in England possibilities of increased cutput have at the termination of hostilities Bulgaria, Government has undertaken to arrange have not grown so foolish as to believe been explored and experimented. The if she cuters Greek territory, will de for the nomination of another Italian that one nation becomes rich on another's resources and adaptability of Four menu- part peacefully ↑ If not she must be liv magistrate on these tribunals. At the poverty, or that the Bismarck policy of facturers in every trade have been ex- ing in a fool's paradice The King is same time-some-points relating to the bleeding your enemy white, as he bled cited, and with the immerse fond of stated to have declared that even if the eventual cession of the Capitulations France in 1871, in good for either in labour which will be set free on demo Balgars entered they would depart peace régime in Egypt and the position of whole. Peaceful penetration as a means every important trade. The potentia

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bilization we count on renewed activity in Jally when they had driven the enemies Italy's colonial subjects were settled to a military end can never again belities of woman labour are now being from Balenika. "In order to expel tho The British Government declared that tolerated by England, France, Italy, and tested, and that, in itself, will Bulgars is Germany prepared to resort it had always recognised the importance Russia nor can we submit to most greatly to the producing power of add to form?" The writer leaves his own of Italian interests in Egypt and favoured nations clauses in commercial British industry question upanswered. The man who formally accepted the principle that treaties being utilised to the detriment" Do you anticipate much labour- thinka that after the war a victorious and there should be complete equality in of any one of the Allied countries, trouble after the wart the interviewer powerful Bulgaria would be content to Egypt between the treatment of Italian The Conference at Paris will up qua Those who speak for organized Leave Greets in peace is lamentably lack- interests and those of other Powers. On proach all these questions with these ing in foresight and wisdom.

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In conclusion, the writer gives a grave arning to his countrymen. He is em phatically of opinion that the Bulgarian menace is the gravest danger Grecce has to face.

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