The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-02
Too Many Royal Princes in Com
mand and Army and Navy
Consequently Suffer.
is CoUNTRY's HUMILIATION
Want a Government That win
Bring Back Military Honor
to the Land.
(By Associated Press.)


ATHENS, October 30.-Incited to
revolution by the ignominious position
Of Greece in Cretan affairs, the blame
of which is laid principally at the
door of Prince George, numper of
the men of the Grecian navy went out
in open revolution yesterday, They
seized eight torpedo boats lying at
Messina, took possession of the arsenal
there, and engaged in battle with
the troops stationed at Messina who
remained loyal.
Early in the day there was an ex-
change of shots between the torpedo
ers and the small shore batteries, the
shore guns putting one of the boats
out of commission. In the mean while
there was struggle for possession of
the arsenal. On the onset the rebels
drove the loyal troops out, but by last
night the government forces had
brought up reinforcements and sue
ceeded in capturing the building, TAX
ing a number of the rebels prisoners.
Following the fighting between the
ships and the shore batteries, the ves-
sells left the harbor and sailed for some
unknown destination, believed to be
Crete. The naval men in revolt are
led by Lieutenant Tibaldos.
A large number of troops have been
rushed to the coast to prevent land
ing of the rebels, while the vessels
of the Greek fleet have started out in
pursuit of the revolutionists.
So far the number of known casual
ties have been surprisingly few, only
two of the loyalists having been
wounded in all the fighting, although
it is thought that the rebels have suf-
fered heavy casualties.
Predict an Overthrow.
While the results in military sense
have so far been very little from the
standpoint of the revolutionists, it is
predicted here that the ultimate out
come of the revolt will be the over
throw of the Grecian government and
the establishment of a government in
favor of the military league. The
present premier of Greece, Mr.. Mau.
romihales, who is the third premier to
hold office during the past four months,
is military league advocate, and it
was supposed that his acceptance of
the portfolio of premier would have
relieved the situation. He has been
so hedged, about by the Bureaucracy,
however, that he has been powerless.
Too Many Princes.
The affairs of the Grecian army and
navy have been in bad state for some
time and have been growing worse,
much to the disgust of the nation, proud
of its once military greatness. Hold
ing high positions in the army are three
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heir to the throne, is in command;
Nicholas heads n division, and Andreas
heads another. Prince George. the Sec
ond son of King George, commands the
navy. The muddled condition of both
branches is blamed on the royal leaders
and the revolt is as much to get rid
of them and put the army and navy in
competent hands as anything else.
Affairs have been coming to a head
for some time, the fire of opposition to
the royal commanders breaking out
openly when the Powers recently or
dered the Greeks out of Crete, shot
down the Greek flag and packed Prince
George off, stating as reason for so
doing the fact that the Grecian army
and navy were not to be depended
upon to properly enforce Greek suzerain-
ty in the island.
King Is Popular.
King George himself is popular with
the people and no part of the present
revolution is directed against him. If
the revolutionists are successful, which
they will probably be indirectly, it
win mean the formation of a govern
ment the aim of which will be to build
up the army and navy to state of
efficiency and prevent the further
humiliation of the kingdom.
Die InnDEAcC iu