The Story of the Great War, Volume 5: Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War
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The Story of the Great War, Volume 5: Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War
World War, 1914-1918
On the 12th a military fete had been held at the Stadium, at which
members of the British Legation were present, including the military
attache and Admiral Palmer, the new chief of the British Naval
Mission. When the king and his suite appeared at the Stadium, Greek
police officers immediately grouped themselves around the British
representatives, giving the inference that the royal party needed to
be protected from them. The indignant Englishmen immediately left the
Stadium. After the fete a mob collected in the street and began a
demonstration against the Allies. The crowd was escorted by fifty or
sixty policemen in uniform. It first marched to the Hotel Grande
Bretagne, where the French Minister resided, and began shouting
insulting remarks. Next the British Legation building was visited and
a similar hostile demonstration was made. Thence the mob proceeded to
the office of the "Nea Hellas," a Venizelist journal, hurled stones
through the windows and assaulted the editor and his staff. The
editor, in defending himself, fired a revolver over the heads of the
mob, whereupon he was arrested and thrown into jail. During the same
evening another demonstration was made in a theater, in which the
performers made most insulting remarks regarding the representatives
of the Allies. Several meetings were held in other parts of the city
at the same time, at which resolutions were passed against the Allies,
one of these resolutions denouncing the conduct of the Allies toward
neutral countries, "and especially their conduct toward the President
of the United States."
Finally, on June 23, 1916, the full text of the demands of the Allies
on Greece, signed by the representatives of France, Great Britain, and
Russia and indorsed by Italy, was given out, simultaneously with the
official announcement that all the conditions had been accepted by the
Greek Government. The text was as follows:
"As they have already solemnly declared verbally and in writing, the
three Protecting Powers of Greece do not ask her to emerge from her
neutrality. Of this fact they furnish a striking proof by placing
foremost among their demands the complete demobilization of the Greek
army in order to insure to the Greek people tranquillity and peace.
But they have numerous and legitimate grounds for suspicion against
the Greek Government, whose attitude toward them has not been in
conformity with repeated engagements, nor even with the principles of
loyal neutrality.
"Thus, the Greek Government has all too often favored the activities
of certain foreigners who have openly striven to lead astray Greek
public opinion, to distort the national feeling of Greece, and to
create in Hellenic territory hostile organizations which are contrary
to the neutrality of the country and tend to compromise the security
of the military and naval forces of the Allies.
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