San Francisco Call Bulletin

June 29, 1917. This article is reprinted below. This article appeared on the front page. The top headline on the front page was "GREECE BREAKS RELATIONS WITH CENTRAL POWERS" and this marked Greece's entrance into World War I.


Athens Recalls Her Ministers At Enemy Capitals

(by Associated Press)
ATHENS, June 29. - The Greek government has broken diplomatic relations with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.

(by Associated Press)
PARIS, June 29. - Telegraphing from Athens under today's date, the correspondent of La Temps says the Greek ministers at Berlin, Vienna, Sofia, and Constantinople have been instructed to leave their posts with their staffs and to place their archives with The Netherlands legations.

"The rupture is based on the incompatibility of maintaining diplomatic relations with governments that are carrying on war in Greek territory," adds the dispatch.

(by United Press)
LONDON, June 29. - That the new government in Greece considers that a state of war exists between Greece and the central powers, was asserted in a Reuter dispatch from Athens today.

(by Associated Press)
ATHENS, June 29. - Though war has not yet been declared, the Greek government considers that a state of war exists since its advent to power yesterday. The recall of the Greek diplomatic representatives accredited to the central powers and their allies is imminent.

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