22 JANUARY 1916, Page 1

The Greek situation remains as complicated as before. The Government

occasionally reasserts its complete neutrality, but public opinion in Greece is apparently becoming more and more hostile to, and afraid of, the Bulgarians, and therefore tends towards the side of the Allies. The British and French Fleets have shown activity on the Greek coasts, their object being to search for possible bases of German and Austrian submarines. These searches, involving as they do temporary landings, at

first alarmed the Greek Government and population, but apparently they have not been resented locally.