The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-21

overwhelming vote of the nat
NJ ional legislature at Athens. been
restored 10 his former post as
inspector general OF the army
II may be recalled that the military
pronunciamento which some three
years ago took place at Athens. re-
ducing the crown and the cabinet 10
impotency. and substituting in their
stead a military oligarchy OF the most
tyrannical character. gave as one OF
the chief pretexts for It's action. the
necessity OF removing the crownprince
from his position OF INSPECTOR general
of the army. and OF severinE his con-
nection with the latter. by the resig
nation of hts commission.
In fact. the military junta actually
forced him to leave the country. and
to reside abroad, at the same time de-
priving both his brothers and his sons
OF their commissions. Their aversion
TO the crownprince is due TO the fact
that having received his military train
ing at Berlin, he is possessed OF ideas
OF discipline. and OF military expert
ence and ethics, all wholly foreign TO
Greek officers, and to their soldiers.
who from military point OF view arc
a mere joke. and have little remaining
of that heroism which enabled them
to win their independence from the
Turks. nearly a hundred years ago.
OF course, King George was anxious
to abdicate after this aHront had been
placed upon his children But at the
pressing instance of the Creek powers,
he remained at Athens. bearing HIM
self with the utmost dignity, and en-
couraged in his moments OF greatest
bitterness and depression. by the as
| surances which he received from some
| Of the older and more experienced
| Greek statesmen. that the nation would
soon tire of its military despots. turn
them out Of office; and call for re-
storation of the old order of things.
These predictions were realized For
within two weeks after the crownprince
had given orders for the removal OF
all his belongings from Athens to st.
| Petersburg, where he had accepted an
| offer from his kinsman, tho Gear, to
enter the service OF the Russian army,
with the promise of an important com
| mand he received n notice from his
! father that the tide had turned in
| Greece. that better times were at hand
| and to suspend the arrangements for
the removal of his belongings to st.
Petersburg. About three months later
the crownprinca returned to Greece,
| on the invitation of the national legts-
lature and OF the municipality of Attn
ems. where he was received with the
utmost enthusiasm. and popular ac-
| clamation.
former military dignities, and after
having undergone a very severe trial,
has resumed his place at the head of
the army, with Increased prestige and
| influence. In fact the manner in
| which he has borne himself during the
, last two wears has served to con-
vince not only the Greeks themselves
| but also the foreign powers, that when
| the time comes for him to take his
| fathers place on the throne at Ath-
ems he will show himself to De an
even still more sagacious. able and
above all energetic ruler. OF the most
| unruly and troublesome nation of Eu
rope.
The crownprince is married to Prime
| ess Sophia of Prussia. sister of the
Kaiser. whom she deeply offended
years ago. by becoming convert to
| the Crock national church and abb
| juring Lutheranism. They have sew
| eral children, the eldest OF whom
| George by name, celebrated last week
| military education at Potsdam. and is
| engaged to be married 10 the seven
/ teen-yea -old Princess Elizabeth of
| Rumanla. eldest daughter Of the fas-
| cirating Crownpr!ncess Elizabeth OF
| Rumania. and. as a great-granddaugh
| err of the late Queen Victoria. in the
| line of succession to the throne of
| Great Britain.
| the widowed Mrs. James Runyon, OF
New York, has just taken place In Lon
! don, is no longer in the first bloom OF
| youth. being over sixty years of age.
! held the office of postmaster general In
/ the last Gladstone administration, and
though he cannot be said to boast OF
blue blood, and comes OF a Noneon-
| formtst family. is nevertheless n mem
Ser of that very exclusive smart club.