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Show DIPLOMACY FOUND SLOW. Negotiations Between Allies anc Greece are Dragging. London. The negotiations between Greece and the allied powers still drag on at Athens, new hitches seemingly arising as the old ones are smooched out. One day it is reported a settlement settle-ment has been reached, only to be followed fol-lowed the next by denial or accounts of fresh difficulties confronting the dipmats. The people of the allied countries, particularly those of France and Italy, are 'becoming impatient over the continual con-tinual delays and the press is demand, ing that stern action be taken to demonstrate dem-onstrate the King Constantine and his ministers the determination of the allies to obtain the assurances demanded. de-manded. New proposals are said to have (been made by France and Great Britain in the hope of reaching an agreement. The attitude of Roumania also remains re-mains undecided. Since the dispatch announcing the closing of Roumanian ports to foreign trade was received, silence has descended upon Bucharest and Europe is awaiting anxiously the next move which will give a meaning to this order. The general belief here is that the Roumanian government is waiting for the concentration of a sufficient suf-ficient Russian force in Bessarabia and a large enough Anglo-French army in southern Serbia to make victory certain before joining the allies. |
