October 19, 1916 
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1916 
CONTENTS 
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U Boat 53. By Louis Raemaekers i 
Greece and the (Germans. (Leading Article) 3 
Enemy Attack on Roumania. By Hilaire Belloc 4 
Trafalgar Day. By Arthur Pollen ' 9 
The White Road to Verdun. By Kathleen Burke 11 
Co-operation and Country Life. By T. W. RoUeston 14 
Labour, Capital and the State. By C Roberts, M.P. 15 
Sleeping Beauty Awakened. By Joseph' Thorp 16 
Books to Read! By Lucian Oldershaw 18 
Greenmantle. By John Buchan 20 
Union Jack Club Fund 24 
The West End 26 
Town and Country xvi. 
Kit and Equipment xix. 
GREECE AND THE GERMANS. 
IT cannot be said that the Allies have shown any 
precipitation in their dealings with the King of the 
Hellenes. They have carried forbearance to a 
point where it no longer has the character of per- 
sonal or national consideration, but gives rise to the 
impression that it is dictated by weakness or fear. As 
long as King Constantine adhered to his determination to 
bo above the constitution of Greece and to rule according 
to his personal predilections and not in concord with the 
wishes of his people, it was only a matter of time before 
this conflict of interests reached an acute stage. The 
virtual occupation of Athens and the dismantlement of 
the Greek fleet are precautions which have been forced on 
the Allies. This is not the hour when they can risk a blow 
in the back, and their manifest duty to Roumania com- 
mands them to take steps which under other circum- 
stances might possibly have been avoided, but which now 
are urgent to enable the campaign against Bulgaria to 
proceed vigorously. 
A clear comprehension of Germany's world policy and 
her thrust' to the East is necessary in order to form a 
right judgment of the present situation in Greece, The 
kingdoms of the Near East are the outet doors to the 
Asian dominions which for years past have been the 
ambition of Germany Let the Middle Empires be firmly 
established on the .Adriatic and the .Egean seas and 
become the dominant power in Asia Minor with an outlet 
to the Persian Gulf by way of Bagdad and controlling the 
quick land route to India, then they divide the Old 
World in half and occupy interior lines from which they 
can menace the British and Russian Empires at vital 
points. The whole scheme is preparation for a Teuton 
wave of invasion, to follow the same lines, but from West 
to East instead from East to West, that Attila and 
Genghiz Khan followed, devastating and slaughtering 
ruthlessly, wherever opposition is organised, and bringing 
the peoples of these ancient lands under subjection. 
Three years ago anyone who dared to make this assertion 
in public print would have been laughed at as a crank, 
for it premises a reversion to methods of barbarism which 
it was then held Western Civilisation had turned its back 
upon for ever, but we know to-day that by Germany 
conquest is conducted on the identical system of brutality 
which prevailed in the Dark Ages, and that when poli- 
tical and military issues are in the balance there is no 
more mercy in the breast of the modern Hun than there 
was in the horse-hoofs of Attila's hordes. 
Here we may remark on a reason why not a few 
persons familiar with international events and episodes 
in Asia and Africa during the past thirty to forty years 
entertained doubts on the possibility of a European con- 
flict. French and Russian interests had so often clashed 
with British interests on those continents that war with 
one or other nation had for years come to be regarded as 
inevitable. After the Russian Penjdeh affair in 1886 and 
again diu"ing the French Fashoda crisis in 1898, it seemed 
as if nothing could preserve peace. But at the very 
last an understanding was arrived at owing primarily to 
neither of the countries really desiring war, and a modus 
Vivendi was arranged which was the beginning of a better 
understanding between the three nations. This under- 
standing has grown steadily because the conditions have 
been honourably maintained by all parties. Now it was 
thought, foolishly thought, that the same procedure 
would be possible with Germany, and that when the 
interests of the two nations clashed, an honourable 
imderstanding could be arrived at without deluging 
the countries in blood. But we have learnt that such 
an understanding would have been an impossibility ; had 
it even been effected it would only ha\-e been temporary 
and done in order to blindfold us until Germany's 
plans were sufficiently advanced for the final act, 
which was war— a war of conquest for which she 
had prepared herself without haste, without rest, 
without scruple, without honour. 
We are realising what German tenacity means in the 
military field. But this quality is equally present in her 
diplomatic activities. Not lightly will she forego her 
Asian ambitions, which would perish for ever were a 
Balkan entente to be created which had for its object 
the peaceful development of those troubled regions by the 
preclusion of Teuton interference. What evil courses 
Germany is prepared to follow to this end, we have seen 
in the martyrdom of Servia, and still more recently in 
her conversion of the German Embassy at Bucharest ^^^jo 
a stronghold for disseminating death and destruction. 
This last step was only possible with the knowledge and 
approval of Wilhelmstrasse, and we may be certain that 
if German diplomacy can resort to such action at 
Bucharest, it is perfectly capable of extreme measures 
in' Athens. King Constantine is their sheet anchor in 
Greece ; let him disappear and they know that their cause 
is lost. M. Venizelos, who if the constitution had not 
been broken should have been Prime Minister for months 
past, has seen through German plans from the outset. 
It was he who was mainly responsible for the French 
military mission, which made the Greek army a first-class 
fighting machine and enabled it to defeat the German- 
trained Turks and Bulgarians. King Constantine relies 
mainly on his popularity with the Army, yet that popu- 
larity would never have been gained had it not been for 
French military training which was responsible for the 
victories on which it rests. 
When Turkey declared war on the Allies, it seemed 
as if the ancient glory of Attica were again within the reach 
of Greece. And so it would have been had the advice 
tendered by her Prime Minister, M. Venizelos, been 
accepted. It was rejected, not by the nation, but by the 
German entourage at Court, whose mouthpiece was the 
King. When Germany coanpares the Allies' treatment 
of Greece with her own treatment of Belgium, she 
deliberately ignores this essential difference. The King 
of the Belgians refused to betray his nation to the 
Prussians ; the King of the Hellenes has done all in his 
povver to accomplish this betrayal. The Allies desire that 
Greece shall continue to'develop peacefully and live in that 
harmony with her neighbours which the Balkan League 
aimed at estabhshing. But they will not permit Athens 
to be made the rallying point of Teuton intrigues which 
have for their ultimate object a second war whenever 
the Germans are again ready to take the field. 
