960 GREECE
The change from the old system is to be gradual, commencing with measures of length. The old system is as follows : —
The Oke . . .
zrz
2-80
lbs. avoirdupois.
,, Stater .
zz^
123-20
! J J J
,, Livre (Venetian)
^
1-05
J> J>
,, Baril (wine)
=
16-33
imperial gallons.
., Kilo .
—
0-114
, , quarter.
,, Pike .
=:
1
of an English yard,
,, Stremma
=:
'242
acre.
^ Diplomatic Sepreseiitatives.
1. Of Greece in Geeat Britain.
Envoy and Minister. — J. Gennadius. Gonsicl -General. — J. Stavridis.
There are consuls of Greece at Birmingham, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, and vice-consuls and consular agents at various other towns.
2. Of Great Britain in Greece.
Envoy and Minister.— Sir F. E. H. Elliot, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., appointed November, 1903.
Secretary. — H. H. D. Beaumont.
Consul (Piraeus). — Charles J. Cooke.
There are British Consular representatives at Calamata (Kalamai), Cephalonia, Corfu, Ergasteria (Laurium), Patras, Milo, Pirseus, Santorini, Seriphos, Syra, Volo, Zante, Zea.
MOUNT ATHOS.
Mount Athos is inhabited by the monks of (Jreek (17), Russian, Bulgarian, and European monasteries. The monks till the fields, tend the vineyard, take in the harvest, fish, weave, sell in shops, and, indeed, take upon themselves all the secular duties of the community as well as the sacred. Originally inhabited by one mediaeval ascetic, Peter the Athonite, it has at last grown to a religious colony of thousands ; and after paying taxes to Greece in the 18th century it was sacked by the Turks in 1839, and was under Turkish rule until November 15, 1912, when the Greeks occupied it. The suggestion has been made that Mount Athos should be governed by an International Commission composed of representatives of all Orthodox States, which would preserve the independent administration of this Monastic Republic. At present each of the many monasteries is a sprt of little republic in itself, each electing its own abbot or archimandrite. In the maintenance of the whole peninsula as a large republic, all the monasteries will be afiiliated ; and some new sort of franchise will have to be exercised to choose a supreme Patriarch and to decide the new civil laws which shall take the place of the Tm-kish laws. But several difficulties have arisen, among them the opposition to the scheme of the monks them- selves, and for the piesenl (March, 1913) no tlefinite action has been taken.
