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Show ITALIAN VIEW OF TIE ATTITUDE IF GREECE Rumors Reach Rome of Diplomatic Dip-lomatic Maneuvers to Gain Time. By DR. E. J. DILLON. (Special Cable by Arrangement with London Dallj Telegraph ini International News Sen Ice. ) ROME, Nov. 20. Rumors reaching Rome tonight tell of diplomatic maneuvers maneu-vers by the Skouloudis cabinet in Greece to gain time and postpone a decision. de-cision. In Italian circles, where Greece's ter-ritoiial ter-ritoiial aspirations never have been contemplated with satisfaction or indifference, in-difference, it is predicted that King Constantiue s auswer will bo unfavorable unfavor-able to the allies. My own opinion is, that being abso-lutely abso-lutely convinced that the allies cannot worst Germany, but will themselves be signally defeated on land and obliged, for the sake of Fraiice, Belgium and Serbia, to conclude peace without carrying car-rying the naval warfare to extremes, tne king of Greece will feel still drawn toward nis brother-in-law's empire. And I entertain no doubt he will give way to that attraction unless its obvious, ob-vious, immediate- and irrevocable consequences con-sequences to himself, his dynasty and his country are sufficiently baleful to act as an effective deterrent. The circuitous byways followed by the field marshal ot the Prussion army, which governs Grete in her dealings with the allies, convince me this forecast fore-cast is flawless. If the Serbians are to be ground to powder, as now seems likely, a policy ostensibly friendly to the allies and essentially subservient to the kaiser's designs is undoubtedly to be followed. If he had allowed the Greek nation to discharge its debt of honor to Serbia the position of the belligerents would be wholly different today. On the western front the Teutons would be contained. con-tained. On the eastern they would be subjected to the exhausting nctiou of a Russian offensive and the severity of winter weather. Against the Italians, ioo, the Teuton struggle would have been arduous and enfeebling. In the Dardanelles tho Turks, checked by the scarcity of ammunition, am-munition, soon would be driven from their trenches and the Dardanelles forced. In a word, the Teuton wave had reached its high-water mark and was ebbing when the Bulgarian defection, which would have been impossible without with-out the collusion of Ferdinand and Constantino, Con-stantino, transformed the outlook. |