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Show PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT IS SET UP AT CANE A LONDON. Sept. 2$. 11:40 p. m. In a dispatch from Athens. Renter's correspondent corre-spondent says a telegram has been received re-ceived there from Oanea giving the summary sum-mary of the proclamation of a provisional government by former Premier Venizelos and Admiral Cotindouriotis. "The application of the personal policy nf the sovereign, a victim of bad counsels," coun-sels," the proclamation says, "has resulted re-sulted in a rapprochement with Greece's hereditary enemies, the violation of the constitution, internal anarchy and isolation isola-tion and contempt for Greece, which the allies consider hostile because she refused re-fused the Serbs the facilities accorded the Bulgars. "The victorious army of 1912-1313 abandons t lie territory conquered bv the ntMion's blood; the population Is fleeing before the invaders: war material has been given- ttie Bulgarians; Greek soldiers sol-diers have been sent to Germnnv by way nf Sofia, and patriots are regarded as traitors. Today is rot the moment to establish es-tablish the responsibility. Our duty Is to save whit there is still time to ave. To attain this it is essential to re-establish national unity hy an immediate return to Hie p"!icy dictated by the, national conscience, con-science, namelv, ranee ourselves on the si'le. of the allies and Serbians to expel the- invaders. "It would be a happv event if. at the eleventh hour, the king should decide to take the lead nf the national forces. In a contrary event. It is ohr duty to do the needful to save the country from the j threatening ruin. We are entering the. strucale convinced that the nation, inrle- , pendently of the state, will accomplish ! s 1 the miracle and bring the country back to i the status of eighteen months ago. (Signed) "VKNIZELOS. "COUNDOURIOTIS." |