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Show VIOLATION OF TRUCE IS CHARGE OF ATHENS State Department Told in Note From Athens That Admiral Du Four-net Four-net Is Guilty of Act of Treachery in Occupation Occupa-tion of City. DECLARES FRENCH HAD BEEN WARNED Battleships Fired on City and Royal Palace Despite Arm i s t i c e Sought by Commander and Granted by Greek Officials. LONDON, Dec. 10, 1:49 a. m. King Constantino has Informed one of tho legations at Athens that ho would join with Gormany if the entente allies break off diplomatic relations with him, according to . a dispatch from Piraeus by way of Syra ialands, Friday, to Lloyd's U,' Weekly News. .! LONDON, Doc. 10, 3:25 a. m. News dispatches to the Weekly Dispatch from Syra island, dated Friday, say that reports from Athens state that troops are arriving arriv-ing thxre continuously and that 20,000 have gathered in and around ' the capital. The allied ministers, it is added, asked for an explanation of this concentration and Premier Lam-bros Lam-bros replied that it was for the preservation of order. The government govern-ment press in Athens, the reports continue, admit that 1600 followers of former Premier Veulzelos have been selEed. It Is added that the mayor of Athens, who is 75 years old, along with 188 others, has been committed to prison on charges of high treason and lntont to commit murder. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. A statement state-ment regarding the clash at Athens was presented to the stuto department by tie Greek legation today. The statement, state-ment, handed to the department for its information, was a copy of a cablegram from Athens instructing the Greek minister min-ister at London to call to the attention of tho British foreign office the facts. It is signed by Foreign Minister Zalo-costas. Zalo-costas. Its text follows: Router's agency has brought the news that "Lord Cecil, answering in the house of commons Mr. Dal-ziel's Dal-ziel's question, said that, in spite of the reiterated express assurances J. given by the king and his govern- raent that no troubles would occur,- one of the most treacherous attacks was brought against the detachments detach-ments of allied contingents which ft were landed on Admiral du Four- net's order last Friday." French Were Warned. J Please bring to the knowledge of the secretary of state for foreign affairs that the royal government, with two letters and several oral declarations, had informed the French admiral of the impossibility of delivering the war material they were summoned to give away. Despite these warnings the admiral ad-miral decided to land a certain number num-ber of detachments, which in several sev-eral columns proceeded from Pir-t Pir-t sens to the capital, which was under un-der military control. The detachments detach-ments occupied some of the outskirts out-skirts and repulsed the royal army, which only at this moment decided to defend themselves without any orders. Admiral Asked Truce. After the morning skirmishes between be-tween the allied detachments and our troops, a truce was decided upon up-on by the request of the admiral. "Pespite the armistice, though, and after firing had ceased, the allied ships bombarded several spots of yf ' the town and shot not less than Mil OF TRUCE CHARGED BY ATHENS ; (Continued from Page One.) thirty-eight shells, seven of which were directed against the royal i palace. j There ean, under such circumstances, circum-stances, l)e no question of treach- j ery or of a non-provoked attack. |