New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1917, Page 10

" DREAM OF EMPIRE NEARLY CAME TRUE Greece Would Have Been a Ruling Power But for Events Athens, Sept. 256—(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)—A dream of empire which would have made Greece a ruling power in Asia Minor along the route to the Orient came very near being realized at the open- ing of the war in Kurope. This has Just been brought out with official exactness in the mass of diplomatic documents laid Defore parliament, ang in statements by Premier Ven- izelos and the minister of foreign af- fairs, M. Politis. Referring to the territorial concessions which Greece could have acquired at that time, M. Venizelos said:— “I had succeeded in obtaining the recognition of the rights of Hellen- ism over western Asia Minor. And I can say without exaggeration that the day I received the communica- tion of Sir Edward Grey speaking of very important territorial concessions on the coast of Asia Minor, was a day of rejoicing as keen as that when the treaty of Bucharest was signed, giving us Saloniki, Macedonia and new Greece. “I who had known how small and feeble Greece was only three or four years ago, saw the stupfying bound she was about to make. This little Greece had now succeeded in occupy- ing a place equal to that of the great powers in the settlement of the fate of Turkey which had been the apple .of discord between the European { Walnun, ) McLaughlin into his confidence, ac- cording to the affidavits filed with | Commissioner McGoldrick yesterday. McLaughlin met Walnun after quit- ting work and the two proceeded to w saloon at Adams and Fulton streets. McLaughlin has access to the ship which figures in the case, and he also possessed a government identi- fication card, without which no em- ploye can enter upon any dock or into any shipyard where government work is being done. Walnun, in or- der to get on board the ship, had to have a government permit, and he schemed, according to McLaughlin, to gain access to the ship with Me- Laughlin’s card. In his affidavit McLaughlin says that Walnun conversed with him re- garding the big grain eclevator fires in Brooklyn last week, and told him that up to Thursday night he (Wal- nun had attended to no fewer than clght fires in the previous thirty-two hours, all of them along the Brook- lyn waterfront. He mentioned a fire in Thirty-fourth street, another in Twenty-seventh street, and one on the property of the Porto Rico Steamship company. Continuing, McLaughlin , suid that Walnun asked him whether the vessel on which it was intended to place a bomb was single or double plated, and when McLaughlin an- swered that it was single plated he says, appeared much elated. Walnun told. him, he says, that it was the plan to put the bomb in the hold near the peak. 100TH ANNIVERSARY. Springfield, Mass.,, Oct. 20.—The 100th anniversary of the founding of Wilbraham academy was observed to- day with a large gathering of alum- ni, class reunions, an address by Bish- op Edwin H. Hughes and a luncheon. —_— CHICAGO ON DECK. Chicago, Oct. 20.—Chicago has reached its minimum allotment of $108,000,000 for the Second Liberty powers.” But as Asia Minor was a field of German ambition and hope, M. Ven- izelos said he found himself opposed not only by the then King Constan- tine, but also by the army general staff, which, he declared, “served a policy purely Germanic.” And with this opposition, backed by the king, the opportunity held out to Greece to become a great power in Asla was finally lost. M. Politis, the minister of foreign affairs, gave some of the details of these concessions, and told how near they came to being realized in two formal treaties. “Such was the desire of the west- ern powers,” he said, “to have Greece adopt a policy mutually advantageous Loan, according to unofficial an- nouncement of the campaign mana- gers. NIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF A HEAVY BRITISH GUN POUNDING THE GERMAN LINE to them and to Greece, that they de- clared to the Hellenic government they were ready to assure to Greece, in return for its co-operation in the war against Turkey, Smyrna and an jmportant part of the hinterland.” After lengthy discussion, M. Politis said, a double convention was con- cluded. But at this point the army staff intervened and succeeded in de- feating the plan. While these large territorial plans came to nothing, yet their definiteness indicates they may again be heard from when final adjustment of the war tiakes place, for Greece is not unlike- ly to have the same aspirations to- ward entering Asia Minor, and the western powers the same willingness hey have already’ shown to give Greece a foothold on this route to the Orient. HELD ON' CHARGE OF DEEP PLOTTING| Man Said to Have Attempted to Blow Up Ship New York, Oct. 20.—The patriot- jam and alertness of James McLaugh- lin, a ship worker, employed by the United States government, has led to the discovery of what may prove to have been a conspiracy to destroy German ships seized by the TUnited States as well as certain auxiliaries now building for the navy. As a re- sult of clever work by McLaughlin a man who describes himself as Charles ‘W. Walnun, a Norweglan, 32 years old, was arraigned before United States Commissioner McGoldrick in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon held without bail to await further in- vestigation of the charge that he had plotted to place a boinb in a vital spot on board one of the largest of the German liners which the govern- ment took over following the declar- | ation of war. According to the with Commissioner McGoldrick representatives of the Walnun divulged the sccret of plot to McLaughlin after he had con- vinced himself that McLaughlin was an Irishman of the - pro-German and anti-English type. As events proved he never made a greater mis- take. Walnun, when arraigned be- fore Commissioner McGoldrick, plead- cd innocence and said he had taken out his first citizenship papers. The prisoner said he left Norway about three years ago and went to Argen- tina. He came to New York last Jahuary and for six months has been a member of the crew of Harry Payne Whitney’s yacht, the While Away, lying in Tebo's yacht basin. The affidavit made by McLaughlin says that not only did Walnun men- tion a certain vessel in Brooklyn as the one on which a bomb was to be placed, but also spoke of another of the big seized ships, and referred to a fleet of auxillaries which he said would never be of any use to ths United States. affidavits by and | i filed government | the | between the offensives, the big Bri All the time, day and night allke, I |HOW THE BRITISH FORCES IN FLANDERS ADVANCE STEADILY THROUGH OCEANS OF HAMPERING MUD This photograph is a graphic illus- tration of the almost insurmountable difficulties that are confronting the British forces in the steady drive on the Flanders front. Rainstorms and the low country have combined convert the whole battlefield into a great sea of mud. 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