Somewhat less neat were the methods adopted to secure the third object of the expedition. The Secret Services had compiled a voluminous register of undesirable persons out of which they drew up a select list of candidates for expulsion and prosecution. Unfortunately, despite their industry, it teemed with embarrassing errors: individuals put down as Germans turned out to be Greeks; and the suspects of Greek nationality included high personages, such as M. Streit, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs, General Dousmanis and Colonel Metaxas, ex-Chiefs of the General Staff, and so on. At last an expurgated list was approved and carried out summarily.[16] Some of the criminals escaped punishment by transferring their services from the German to the French and British propagandas; for, {113} while to intrigue with the former was to commit a crime, to intrigue with the latter was to perform a meritorious deed. There the Allies and M. Venizelos stopped for the moment, hoping that Rumania's entry into the War, which had just taken place, would induce Greece to do likewise. [1] _Journal Officiel_, p. 99. [2] The _Daily Mail_, 24 June, 1916. [3] _The New Europe_, 29 March, 1917. [4] Du Fournet, p. 91. [5] Sarrail, pp. 107, 354-5. [6] "_L'Angleterre avait mis son veto._"--Sarrail, p. 153. [7] See his statement to the Correspondent of the Paris _Journal_, in the _Hesperia_, of London, 7 July, 1916. [8] Du Fournet, p. 99. [9] Caclamanos, Paris, 1/14 June, 1916. [10] M. Zaimis's deposition on oath at the judicial investigation instituted by the Venizelos Government in 1919. Cp. Sarrail, p. 152. [11] _White Book_, Nos. 158-60. [12] _White Book_, Nos. 161-5. [13] "The King, having no illusions as to the result of an election," says M. Venizelos, in the _New Europe_, 29 March, 1917, "organized, in connivance with the Germans and Bulgarians, the invasion of Western and Eastern Macedonia. As the Liberals thus lost about sixty seats, the King might hope . . . to secure at least some semblance of success at the coming elections." On the first opportunity that the people of Macedonia, Eastern and Western alike, had of expressing their opinion--at the elections of 14 Nov., 1920--they did not return a single Venizelist.--See Reuter, Athens, 15 Nov., 1920. [14] For the Greek original, see the _Hesperia_, 1 Sept., 1916. A much longer text, apparently elaborated at leisure, with a colourless English translation, was published by the Anglo-Hellenic League. [15] Sarrail, pp. 152-4; Official statement by the Revolutionary Committee, Reuter, Salonica, 31 Aug., 1916. [16] Du Fournet, pp. 99-104, 122-4, 127, 129. {114} CHAPTER XI