The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-28
King George in Imminent Danger Of
Being A&aSinated
The Royal Family Said 10 be Prepared 10
Flee at Moments Notice.
Meetings Held and HdTalguGS Delivered in DGlunCa-
ton Of Those Who Would BGtIaY Greece
The Cabinet Said 10 Have Resigned.

LONDON, April PA dispatch re-
ceived here from an attache of one of
the Embassies at Athens gives most
sensational and alarming statement Of
the condition of affairs in King
Georges Capital.
The news, briefly stated is to the eff
feet that riot and revolution are i'm
pending in the city, and that the
crown of the King, if not his very life,
is at this moment in extreme danger.
The people, excited to madness by
stories of governmental bIunders and
general incapacity, throng the streets.
denouncing the King and his advisers.
and demanding arms that they may
themselves defend their homes from
the invading Turks. That they have
the spirit to make a desperate resist
ance against the Ottoman thousands
no one doubts, but there is more than
fear that the arms which they de-
mand would first be put to another and
lamentable use.
The statement is positively made in
the dispatch received that King George
may at any moment be deposed or as
sassinated. The very worst is feared,
as it is momentarily expected that the
mob, with such weapons as are at
hand, Will rise and take the city If
this should happen there is no telling
what may result, in view of the pres
ent wildly excited state of public feel
ing. The deposition of the King
would instantly result, and it is greatly
feared that the maddened leaders of
the mob would not stop at this They
have already come to believe that the
country has been sacrificed to the King
and his family, and there are not want
ing those who declare that death should
be the doom of traitors. even though
they be of royal blood.
The King and his friends are said to
fully realize this, and it is understood
that arrangements have been made
which will enable the royal family to
flee from Athens on a moments notice
Unfortunately report to this effect.
has gone abroad among the populace,
with the result that the bitter feeling
against the King has been greatly in
creased.
To the betrayal of the country, which
the agitators declare his folly and de-
sire to favor his sons and intimates has
already brought about. they now hold
that he meditates adding the coward
ice of desertion in the face of the
enemy, and their wrath increases
momentarily. In their frantic rage they
lose sight of the fact that it is their
violence and not the approach of the
Turks that he breads.
One concession made to the demands
of the populace this morning was the
1t is feared, however, that it is now too
late for this, or even the retirement of
the entire Ministry, to do any good
toward calming the excitement This
has been already made evident in the
case of Crown Prince Constantine
BY royal decree and in consequence
of the fierce and threatening dissatis-
faction of the people the Crown Prince
has been relieved of the command of
the army and recalled, together with
his entire staff. Unfortunately the ex-
cited people, now that national ruin
seems imminent, are rather angered
than pleased that this should have been
done They denounce the folly that
placed the command of the army in the
hands of an inexperienced youth, but
their anger is in no sense cooled by
the action which, now that everything
seems likely to be lost does no good
while serving simply as a confession
of past folly.
sRani the leader of the opposition,
has become a figure of enormous inn
portance at this juncture. His late
Journey to the front, and the evidences
of incapacity which he is said to have
found existing about the Crown
Princes headquarters, are unquestion-
ably responsible for much of the pres
ent excitement. He has in no manner
sought to soften what he apparently
believes to be the facts in making them
public.
It is an open secret that the appoint
ment of the veteran, Colonel Smolenitz,