The blockade continues very close indeed. There was little wheat, what was produced in the land, which remained in the countryside and did not reach the cities.

Coal was totally missing. Deprivations were indescribable. Unimaginable cruelty.
[...] Nobody could believe that all this was necessary for the security of the rear of Sarrail. Most people believed that all this was happening to force Greece to side with the Entente. All the rest, generally all the others believed, that through these cruel inhumane measures, the Entente Powers estimated that the Greek people would forsake the King and would turn to Venizelos.
There was no greater delusion than this. The more the people suffered the more they rallied around and became devoted to the King. Popular manifestations in his favour were continuous, endless and spontaneous. Wherever he passed through, wherever he went, he became the object of the most enthusiastic manifestations. Hundreds of people were running behind the royal car clapping and cheering the King.

Ê. Zavitsianos, Anamniseis ek tis diafonias Konstantinou-Venizelou, v. 1, Athens, 1946, p. 237.