12 MARCH 1910, Page 2

The Military League in Greece has outdone itself with the

latest demands which it has presented to the Prime Minister. It demands, for instance, the dismissal of all the higher officials in the public service, the more competent of whom may possibly be reappointed ; the dismissal of the fifty-eight professors of the University, some of whom may be reappointed ; a series of changes in the electoral law, among them being the restoration of small electoral districts, in which it is thought non-party delegates could be more easily returned ; the expropriation of the landlords in Theasaly, and the establishment of peasant proprietors in their place ; the removal of the Royal stables from the centre of Athens ; and the establishment of a Ministry of Agriculture. The Athens correspondent of the Times points out in Thursday's paper that four weeks of the Session remain in which to carry out this stupendous programme. The agrarian question in Thessaly is extraordinarily complicated, and. apparently no suggestion is made how the money is to be raised for expropriation. Besides this programme, the League has prepared a law for purifying the Army, under which a secret Committee will decide on the retention or expulsion of all officers on the • active list. Finally, it must be mentioned—il ne manquait que pa—that the unhappy Chamber which is confronted with this alarming brood of politico-military proposals has not yet passed its Budget.