New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1923, Page 3

GRECLAN HING 1S ASKED 0 DEPART (Continued I'rom First Page), ‘r writing that it considered it advisable for him to leave Greece until the na- tional assembly had decided on the regime best befitting the country. The king reserved his reply until tqday. | Official Statement le official communique issued af- ter the cabinet ‘meeting said: 1 "*As the constituted assembly based on the clections is about to meet to | discuss the regime best suited to the | country, the heads of the revolution- | ary government considered that with a view to assuring calm in the debate | on this very important question it was their duty to convey to his majesty | the Kking the opinion that he should Jeave the country until such time as | a final decision has been reached ve- | garding the regime. | “This opinion has been communi- | cated to the king who will make | known his reply tomorrow, (Tues- | day).” King in Name Only ! King George 11 of Grewce, cldest son of the late King Constantine, ue ceded to the throne on September 28, 1 ter his father had b2en dore:-1 | to abdicate by the Gonat:s-Ilasti revolution, It became apparent al-| most immediately that George wus to be a monareh in name ounly, for the revolutionary regime gave Groec what was virtually 4 military Jicturs ship. Nevertheless, there wus no dis- position to terminate the dynasty, the leaders of the government preferring to keep the young sovercign wunder close survelllance and allow him . a semblance of power, However, in the last few months ic- publican and pro--Venizelist sentiment in Greece has been growing rapidly and month the military-republi- can faction “requested” King George Greece for o brief period v clarification of the ge political situation. George and it was understood that he leave the country for two months, ap- pointing @ regent to hold the nominal sovercign power, On Saturday of last week the long: deferred national election took place, The returns showed such a preponder. ance of Liberal-Republican sentiment that a dynastic erisis scemed inevita- bic, and apparently it hus materializ- o King George's wife, Queen Eliza- beth, is the eldest daughter of Queen | Marie of Rumania, familiarly known as “the royal grandmother of the Dalkans,” Tragedy and disaster have lurked in the paths of the Greek royal family | sinee the assassination of King George I in 1013, George 1 wus the second | king of Greeee, having ascended the throne after the first reigning mons | arch, Prince Otto of Bavaria, was ex- pelled from the kingdom in 1862 after | reigning 20 years | Constantine ascended the throne | after his father's assassination and | roigned until 1917 when he was re. moved by edict of the allicd powers | and his second son, Alexander, placed In his stead. Alexander was in power @ little more than three years and disd | in October, 1920, trom the effect of u | wound inflicted by the teeth of a pet monkey. The Greeks then clamored for the return of Constantine and he re. entered Athens amid great pomp. With his return his subjects were roused to great patriotic display. War amainst Turkey became popular, and was declared, For a time the Greek| forces achieved signal success wgainst the Turkish armies and then, through what was attributed to poor manage. ment, the tide turned against them end constantine was forced, for the sccond time, to abdicate his throne, Prince George, his cldest son, then | breame king, | last to lcave nerul ied was to pending Throne Scems Lost | By The # pelated Press, London, Dec. 18, British diple- | Mats who are familiar with the acute | political situation in Greece see little ! chunce of saving Wing Grorge's throne. They say ther are not sur prised at reports that the young monarch Is leaving Athens at the re. wuest of the Greek government. e\ ~a, You can be asured it's wear and appreciste when you ghve him gloves, DRSS GLOVES $2.00 - $5.00 LINED GILOVES 33.00 T0 { government in | king 15 leaving for evening. lin Athens Monday in |a reply. | resolution | cabinet council then in session. | the Greek kingdom since | have in England, its repercussion up- | shattering of the queen of They're Fine Gifie The British charge d'affaires at Athens frequently has informed the present revolutionary regime in Athens that Great Britain would view with disfavor any violent change in dynasty, but the military junta ap- parently found it futile to attempt to sway the extreme elements in the iiberal and moderate parties from their desire to banish Constantine's son in order to make way for the re- f turn of their great idol Venizelos and the establishment of the republic. England is not alone in disapproy- ing of the disappearance of the throne. France, Ttaly, Jugoslavia and Rumania are known to have made the strongest overtures lo the Athens cabinet against the expulsion of George, The chief object of the recent visi of the king of Jugoslavia in Paris w ILLIO C Al s b('llull of his I.ingly brother-in- l.lv\.\ | Queen Marie of Rumania, going far beyond the usual functions of a | mother-in-law, urged every friendly | Europe through dip- lomatic channels to save the crowns of George and her daughter, Queen Slizabeth, but evidently all this pres- re l-ms been in v OVER 68 YEARS OF SUCCESS Dozen Awards Today Toral That Amount—=Standard Oil With $000,- 000, Gets Largest Sum., Dec. 18 Twelve awards totalling approximately $1,- 000,000 were announced today by the Mixed Claims Commission in favor-of | Ame 1 claimaits against Germany for prope losses sustained during the war. The largest awards were to the tSandard Oil company of New York, $500,000, and the Remington Typewriter company $64,800, Washington, Appeal to Venizelos London, Dec, 18,—A Central News patch from Athens says: “The Bucharest this It is stated on good author- ity that he has telegraphed Venizelos appealing to him to take over the| g jyrgest of the ten other awards ina of the government. Admirallway one of $17,117 in favor of the | Koundouriotis has assumed the Te- | W, M. Ritter Lumber company., The | gency until the future vegime of the | g uiun T ading company w als ) country is decided.” lowed 84, Interest of five per- Down With the King cent was specified in each ease, Athens, Dec, 18.—Greek advocates | Cases:brought by the Ocean Lum- of a republic were busily employed | ber company and George 8. Taylor & laying the | Co. were dismigsed, | groundwork for the move to oust the e royal house. An anti-dynastic meot- INE, s hehd 38 the. sardomn. e PRESBYTERIANROW | demonstrators attending including | members of the army and navy, Ex- N Admiral Hadjikiriskos addressed th gathering. His evoked cries of “down with the king!" The demonstrators inally republican marched to the pre- |, T A Pr they submitted a New York, Dec. 18 passed at the meeting fav- | position has developed in the Pres- oring the dethronement of King | hyterian church against the adoption rorge. . This done, they marched {of the five articles of faith demanded to the starting point to await|y the fundamentalists in their vie- During the march the cry, [ tory over the modernists at the gen ‘down with the King!" was constant- | ..} assembly last May, it was learn- ly repeated, ed today at the headquarters of the After a conference between the | New York Presbytery. | political and military leaders the Ministers in all parts of the coun- demonstrators were notified that their [y it was said, were signing a pro- would be discussed at the |y ngainst the rtion that these | five articles are essentinls of the church doctrine, Jan Paderewski, famous is a keen billiards player, al- is 63 years old, was Vigorous Opposition To Adoption of spoech Five Articles of Faith Demanded athered orig- beadqiar: By Fundamentalists outside ind then office where ters o Vigorous op resolution Move Toward Democracy, By The:Assoolated Press, London, Dee. 18.—The expulsion of King George from Greeee, announced by toduy’s dispatches from Athens, drew forth comment from diplomat- ists in London upon the notable ten- dencies toward dem acy manifested by the conntries of Kurope during the last six years The cxile of George of Greees, they observed, represented the tonth King who had been forced to make his exit sinee the war, the monarchs previous. ly affected being those of Russia, Ger- many, Austria, Bulgaria (Ferdinand) Montenegro, Turkey, Egypt and the Kings of the German Federated States sueh as Bavaria 1t wus also noted that numbers of other countries had thrown off the yoke of royalty, Poland, the Baltie Sates and Crechoslovakia being in- stanced, The news of the action Athens toward the Greek was reccived with intense interest by the government and the publie. It was recalled that Great Britain, as the traditional sponsor and protector of 1821, has particular reason to view with anx- fety and disapproval the sudden de. thronement of the young king and queen who, it 8 held here, acted throughout their short reign with dis- cretion and circumspection But whatever effect the extinetion of royal institutions in Greeee will Tenatz pianist, though he 17% MAIN taken in monarchs g : ! | = e Here you will find a will make choice a simple um weight s on the roval houses in all the Balkan couniries is thought likely in diplo. matic quarters to be much more im- portant. 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