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PARIS, Franco.—As already report- j
I ed by cable, the Temps has secured a ,
| statement as to the situation in Greece i
from M. Diomede, who was formerly I
minister of finance in the Venizelos
cabinet, and who has now been sent j
on a personal mission to France and ;
: Knffland by the head of the Greek pro-1
: visional government.
The events of the last six weeks, he
began, must have dissipated many
illusions. Everyone, 1 suppose, has
grasped that what the king has for
months called a policy of neutrality
has been from the outset pro-German.
All those who have lived in Athens in
1915 and 1916 have been enlightened
in this respect by facts of public no
toriety. It is well that these facts
should be numerated.
First of all I would point out that
in speaking of the Greek general staff
and its actions, it is wrong not to add
that that general staff has been con
stantly directed by a German officer,
Major von Falkenhausen. It is he
who, from the beginning of the war up
to the expulsion of the legations, was
the real master of the royalist army.
It is still at his inspiration that the
work of the general staff has proceed
ed since his departure. Herr von Falk
enhausen, the military attache to the
the German legation, passed his days
either at the palace, to which he had
free access, or at the war office, where
he shared the office of Colonel Metax
as, who has been the most active of
his executive agents. It was he who,
after the entente note in June, con
ceived and executed the new concen
tration of the Greek army which fol
lowed on the demobillization. It was
he who disposed it in such a way that
the various units, quartered in the
neighborhood of the Larissa railway,
could be concentrated at any moment,
in two or three days at the most.
He also drew up the plan, executor
after his expulsion, for the distribu
tion of artillery, munitions and pro
visions in the villages, where they are
more easily concealed than in the or
dinary barracks. He^ arranged at the
same time for the accumulation of
cereals which, despite the blockade,
will enable the king to feed an army
composed of three army corps for sev
eral month. It was also Major von
Falkenhausen who insured constant
communication between Athens and
Berlin, and who, thanks to information
furnished him by the Greek general
.-tali', kept the German high command
informed of the movements of the Sa
il
lonika army. He further organized
the T. S. F., the Athens-Berat teb
phonic lines, by means of which the
king is still in daily communication
with the imperial government. Finally
it was this officer who initiated the de
^ cree concerning the pseudo-reservists !
| —set up after the model of the Swiss
army, each man taking his arms and
I his equipment home with him, and be
1 ing able to rejoin his corps within a
few hours merely in response to a.
proclamation Hen- von Falkenhausen
I has been for two years the absolute!
1 master of the Greek general staff. He •
j has never ceased to do so since his
departure from Athens. Today they
are still his orders that are executed.
He has succeeded in making the king
believe that he is doing it all in his
service. Is there any need to add that
he was first of all in the service of
Germany.
! Under this German direction, M.
i Diomede continued, the royalist army
| was awaiting the order for it to attack
i the allied forces. He was unable to
! say when that order would be given,
or what the objective of the attack
! would be, but what he did affirm was
; that the attack was certain, and that
I all the king’s acts were in the nature
} of preparation for it. He pointed, in
addition to the accumulation of the
stocks of cereals, to what he said was
the systematic nonexecution of the
promised withdrawal to the Pelopon
nesus. The number of men withdrawn
did not amount to 4,000, he said, and,
to his knowledge, not a single gun or
shell had been moved. As to the fore
es at the kind’s disposal, there were,
he continued, 45,000 men immediately
available, while the culling up of the
reservists would bring the number up
to 75,000; that was,*to three army
corps composed of three divisions of
three regiments each. With regard to
artillery, there were no heavy guns:
these to the number of 150, having
been in Macedonia, and delivered up
to the Bulgarians with their ammuni-1
tion. The field and mountain artil
lery was complete, with the exception
of 40 guns handed over to the Bulgar
ians, and 18 in possession of the pro
visional government. The ammuni
tion available amounted to 1,200.
rounds per gun, while as to machine
guns there were two to each batallion,
the number of these being about 180.
1 hose ordered since the war had been
held up at Malta. Finally, there were
in the Greek army 4,500 officers, 1,300 j
of whom had gone to Salonika; which
left about 3,200, quite a sufficient
number for three army corps.
As to the assistance which the pro
visional government could furnish the
allies, it amounted at present, M. Dio
mede stated, to but one division, which
was already engaged. But that, he
intimated, was the fault of the allies,
rather than of M. Venizelos, as but
for the shortage of arms and equip- i
ment, it would easily be possible to
raise and maintain five divisions at
least. For the past three weeks, he
added, the necessary supplies had been
coming in regularly, so that a rapid
expansion of the provisional govern
ment’s forces might be looked for.
But that, concluded M. Diomede,
was not all that could, or that must;
be done. The tradition of Hellenism,
| the union of the whole of Greece, must
be realized, and that could be done
only in one way; by destroying the,
roots of Germanism represented by
the king, his government, and his im
mediate entourage. Once the national
conscience was awakened, and the peo
ple learned the truth about all the
falsehoods they had been told, the
present regime would be reudiated;
! but to that end energetic action must
he taken. Two years will have been
lost, he remarked; but if the end is
attained, the memory of the trials en
dured will *'ade.
TIME WASTED IN
SECURING RECRUITS
LONDON, March —In these days
when England is trying to make the
best possible use of every ounce of
her man power, many persons find
cause for displeasure at the way in
which time anil money are wasted in
some of the cumbersome processes of
the English courts. One case cited
as a striking example of the .wastage
of man power in the courts is that of
; bartender put on trial at Wir.dsoi
for stealing a pot of honey, value ten
cents. The case occupied a half day’s
time of 40 persons in the upper court,
the ordinary police magistrate having
ben unable to deal with the case be
cause the man had a record of a pre
vious conviction.
The 40 persons whose time was oc
cupied listening to the dry-as-dust
I hrases of the legal red-tape connect
ed with the trial included: The Re
corder, the Mayor, the Clerk of the
Peace, the Chief Constable, the Usher,
the Doorkeeper, the Crown Counsel
and Solicitor, the Court Stenographer,
and Prosecutor, three court attend
ants, 13 grand jurors, 12 petty jur
ors, and two witnesses. The prisoner
was sentenced to one day’s imprison
ment without referring the case to the
jury. The cost of the procedure to
the country was estimated at about
200 pounds.
The Recorder, in charging the
grand jury, said it was a small mat
ter to summon .so many people togeth
er and take them from their various
occupations. Probably many people
would think it absurd. With that
view he himself agreed, but he said
there were many people who took the
other view.
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FALMOUTH, England, March 3.-j
These are stirring days in this remote
shipping outpost. The harbor is!
crowded with American, Dutch and!
Scandinavian craft of all kinds, great [
liners of the trans-Atlantic companies, j
freighters, tankers and tramps in all
rigs and flags. It is the busiest ship
ping time Falmouth has seen since the
old packet day, almost a hundred
years ago, when things flourished and
then died down until the port was
considered pretty dead from a ship
ping standpoint. Just now the declar
ation of the German war zones has
sent ships scurrying into the harbor,
for the memorandum to the German
note even specified Falmouth by name
as offering some posable exemption
from the scourge.
Falmouth more than any other port
it witnessing how the war is changing
trade routes and trade ports, particu
larly along the channel where the sub
marine menace has practically closed
the old ports for trans-Atlantic travel,
notably at Cherbourg, Havre and Bou
logne on the French side, and South- j
ampton and Dover on the English.
And even Bordeaux has fallen in the
danger zone under the new menace.
So that Falmouth, while having no ac
tual exemption, has none the less
reaped the advantage of its geograph-1
ical position in absorbing the shipping ;
closed out from many other ports. i
The port is at the very tip of south
west England, just abreast of the
rocky headland of Landsend, and
about the first land sighted in coming
across the Atlantic. It is just east of
the Lizard from which point the ar
rival of liners is first reported, the
same as from Sandy Hook. It is ad
jacent too, to the Poldau wireless sta
tion which from this outpost sends its
wireless across the Atlantic and to
ships at sea. Nearby is Penzance, 1
where the pirates lived and further on j
is the house of Drake.
Thus located at the very jumping
oll' place of England and the western
most harbor of the channel, Falmouth
has a minimum of danger and at the
same time is something like Montauk
point, Long Island, in reaching far out
to sea and thus permitting quick
emergency connections with the me
tropolis lying further inland. These i
various advantages have combined to
bing Falmouth back to its old-time i
shipping glory and to crowd the har
bor with the ships of all nations save
those of the enemy.
One of these new-comers, an Ameri
can tanker, has just gone ashore in
the outer harbor and is slowly going |
to pieces in the surf. There has been
no loss of life but Falmouth is deeply
roused, for a scum of American oil
has spread over the surface of the
water.
“It’s one of the worst things ever
happened to us,” said an old authority i
of the port. “The oil has got into our
oyster beds, among the best in En
gland, and probably killed them for
good. It has also killed off all the
fish, and even the fish that are living
can’t be eaten, they taste so of oil.
We’ve had a big boom from the war,
but this oil on the water has set it all
back. It’s a serious danger, too, for
at some points it has caught fire and
spread a sheet of flame far over the
water.”
This, however, is only one of the pas
sing incidents of the strenuous sea
life in times of war. But the lasting
thing for Falmouth is the great im
petus to shipping and the crowd of
ships from all over the world now
heading in and out of the port. The
rush has been so great that the port
authorities have put on very rigid
rules against crowds of strangers in
vading the town at night. Only the
masters of the merchant craft come
ashore at any time; all the crews are:
marooned aboard, day and night. No j
small boat from the visiting ships can ;
be afloat after five o’clock in the after- ,
noon. Any master or other person ;
from the ships in town after that is
subject to arrest.
Big social and dance, Sourdough
club, Robarts hall, Tuesday evening.
See program on page 2. Admission
f ree. 67C:
DO YOU WASTE MONEY?
Almost every one does. Bread cast upon the
water comes hack again. But when you throw
money away it mighty seldom eve)1 comes back.
What’s going to happen to you when you have
no more money to waste? Why not open an ac
count here? $1.00 does it. l>oing it once a week
for a year means $52 to the good for you—and
the interest we pay you in our Savings Depart
ment. Try it for a few months, you will be su#
prised to find how fast your account will grow. p
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SOURDOUGH CLUB! .
BIG SOCIAL AND DANCE.
Robarts’ Hail, Tuesday, 8 p. m.
PROGRAM:
Jno MacDonald . Recitation
Jno. Kacerosky .Song
(’. (Osier... Violin Solo
Mrs. A. Christensen.Song
Sis Hopkins (?) . Impersonation
Mrs. Martha White . Recitation
Dance Will Commerce Immediately After.
Lunch Served. Everybody Is Cordially Invited.
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M. Stepovich, of Fairbanks, who outfit of machinery and supplies
owns a rich tungsten mine near that " hirh they will freight in over the
place, and G. M. Taggart, who is fin- trail to the mine. They^xpect to
ancially interested in the property, mine and concentrate a large amount
arrived at Cordova recently with an , of ore this year.