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Show EliEECE REPLIES TO Fli HUES Declares Order V'as Maintained Main-tained With as Little Danger Dan-ger as Possible. PASI3, Dec. 7, 6:05 p. m. The oHicial jcurutJ wUl puliiih tomorrow tomor-row a decree proclaiming a, blockade of Greek ports. ATHENS, fee. f., via London, tx-c. 7, 1 1 p. in. The texL ot" l he- Greek, reply to i he written and verbal protests cf the Ana.-riean, Dutch and Spanish ministers, rmide "on humanitarian Kfoutids," aRatnst t:ie tll-ti-eutmcin oi' Venice list pri ?o ners taken tiurnii; tin: altem)ted revo.jittoti, Prulny and J?;i : ur iay. has been made pul-lic. Aftei ihankMis: the neutral :u:n-, :u:n-, isti-i s for their sent i men is of i'rit'i:i.i!viip for drct-i.j, whicii inspired t!ie repifcsen-tatiotia repifcsen-tatiotia m quti-tion, the rci!it says: Tlie royal governmer.tl from the first day " had in view cwily the re-estai'hslnnent re-estai'hslnnent and matntL-.'jaive ol" or-der or-der in tlie troul)Ie Friday tair.l Saturday Satur-day caused by revolutionary elements. ele-ments. Tins was done cotnpleteiy, with as little damage as p'KSible. It contrary to the orders 13 wn there was some excess of tensioa .anil indignation in-dignation on the part of the population and troops, wdio saw in a moment so trade for the fatherland agitators taking au vantage of the v. riappy events of that day to take u arms against the country and try to overthrow over-throw the established yoverhmei.tt, this must be taken into consideration. This exasperation was particiilarly aroused by the bombardment ol' the royal palace and the neighborlitood thereof in this, an open city, at uhe very moment when an armistice h;.-int; h;.-int; been concluded it was hoped pea'i would finally reign. Nevertheless. the royal povern- ! ment is derided to punish every person per-son guilty of committing illegal acts an exceeding instructions, and a severe se-vere inve3tisat ion will be begun to-this to-this end so soon as acts of such nature na-ture are brought to the attention of the royal government. In this connection the foreign minister min-ister considers it his duty to recall to your attention that by his note of November No-vember 2S he warned the neutral powers of the tragic positions in which the Greek nation was placed as a result re-sult of the measures jtaken against i Greece, and of the- consequences j which the French admiral's insistence upon obtaining Greek war materials I might well have. |