. At Athens on Sunday last M. Venizelos addressed a
great meeting attended by sixty thousand people, representing all classes of the community, to protest against the policy which had led to the Bulgarian invasion. M. Venizelos urged that a deputation of the people should wait on the King and demand that he should rid himself of the sinister influence of those who were exploiting the Crown, and who sought to frustrate the work of the revolution' and to restore the regime of corruption in order to satisfy their anger against the speaker. The King, he went on, had been the victim of ignorant military advisers, with inclinations towards absolutism, who had persuaded him that Germany would be victorious. He had also been misled by his admiration for Germany, whose victory he desired, hoping by it to weaken the Constitution and concen- trate in his hands all executive power. The result of these mistakes had been the invasion of Macedonia by the Bulgarians, the surrender of enormously costly war material to the invaders, and the dis- ruption of the nation. An election was necessary to obtain a Chamber representing the nation.
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