Stead's Review, Vol. 47: June 23rd, 1917 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Stead's Review, Vol. 47: June 23rd, 1917Though. They occupied the islands and various strategic points in Greece itself, the Allies were uncertain what the king might do, and were never free from fear that he would somehow or other, though without weapons, manage to strike Sarrail in the back. Finally, then, it became obvious that unless they could have. Someone in' control of Greece entirely subservient to them, the. Allies could not start on their great enter prise, the object of which is to cut through the berlin-bagdad line and isolate Tur key. Therefore they called upon Constan tine to abdicate, and, first preventing his followers from forcibly resisting, he did so, thereby avoiding bloody strife within his territories. However much we may blame him for the course he has pursued during the last two years, however certain we may feel that he is a warm sympathiser with our enemies. We must perforce con fess that he has managed to preserve his people from the horrors of war. Has main rained his neutrality in circumstances of unrivalled difficulty. Now that he has gone we may expect the occupation of northern Greece by the Allies, and if the reports that they have men on the spot be true, may look for the beginning of the long-expected offensive against the Bul garians, which is to finally bring our armies to the Danube, compel the submis §ion of Tsar Ferdinand and bring about the downfall of the Turk. If there are three-quarters of a million Entente soldiers in the Balkans they must be the Italians. For the most part, for evidently the troops of King Victor have advanced in force from Avlona. This advance. Though, ap pears to have been made through the terri tory which was given to Greece at the treaty of Bucharest in 1913, through that debatable land, in fact, ever a bone of contention between Italy and Greece. Not only have the Italians occupied the Epirus and Janina, they have also proclaimed a protectorate over Albania, a province which has for so long witnessed the rivalries of Austrian, Turk Serbian Italian and Greek. If President Wilson's formula were to be rigidly applied. Italy could hardly hope to retain either Epirus or Al bania, for the people of Epirus desire union with Greece, and the Albanians want to be entirely independent. So little is known about Albania that a brief account of that unquiet land and its remarkable people may not be uninteresting, and will be given in our next number.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.