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~. cautious leader and enjoyed the
lmpllcit confidence or hiv troops. +s { III. I, i

~. cautious leader and enjoyed the
implicit confidence OF his troops. III
i8 " \, hen hen the crown prince Ii 1896 saw
bis country drifting Into war with
Turkey Turk be warned the war department
at Athens that the army was utterly
unprepared for q. campaign. The In
faIntry was armed with condemned
French rides. which had cost So each;
the cartridges were fifteen years old.
there Elt was no cavalry, the artillery was
obsolete and its officers few. and there
bad been insufficient drill. Neverthe-
less the country decided upon war.
Inc result was disastr0us-a humiliat.
ing defeat for Greece. Immediately
the popular tide turned against it's ruI-
ers, whom it denounced as foreigners
who l'o could have little in common with
the Greeks. The king and queen were
hooted In the streets, and the officers
turned their backs upon the crown
prince. 5&5 NJ s-i5#
A similar spirit was reused against
the royal house when in 1909 King
George tried to oppose the popular
clamor for the annexation Of Crete.
knowing that Turkey was eagerly
awaiting such an excuse to bring sec
ond crushing defeat upon Greece. This
time the clamor almost became a re.
volt, and the king was obliged to yield
to the demand of the Military league.
both for the reorganization of the army
and for the dismissal of the crown
prince as generalissimo and Of his
brothers from active commands in the
army and navy. .""s m es
The crown prince left Athens. But
two weeks after he had issued orders
for the removal Of his belongings from
Athens to St. Petersburg, where he
was to accept command in the army
of the car, the tide turned again. and
he was notified by his father to come
back. Three months later Constan.
tine returned to Greece on the invita-
ton of the national assembly and the
municipality Of Athens, where he was
received with great acclaim s.@
He was restored to his former digni.
ties, and after having undergone q
severe trial was raised to the com.
mand OF the army, with added pres.
tige and influence. At the outbreak OF
the present war in the Balkans he led
the advancing Greek forces and cap.
tured the city of Saloniki from the
Turks. With force of 10000 Greeks
he caused $4,000 Turks to lay down
their arms. His popularity from that
time has been tremendous throughout
Greece ~
It is said that Constantine aims to re
store the former grandeur Of the an,
cient Hellenic empire and that he Is a
believer in the old national prophecy
that under the reign of Constantine
and a Sophia the eastern empire shall
be called into life again and the cross
restored on st. Sophia in place of thu
crescent. .+5.# .sJt r. III II
The crown princes wife is Princess
Sophia. a sister of the German en-
per0r. Their marriage on Oct. q, 1889
was. a most spectac ular event and wa
attended by the kaiser and members
Of the royal families Of every court in
Europe Soon afterward Princess So
phia renounced her Lutheran religion
and took that Of her husband, thereby
deeply offending her brother, the Ger
man emperor. HIT ,r>. ".
Prince Constantine, like his father
and his brother. Prince George. is OF
herculean stature, more than six feel
tall and ;aagnifcently proportional
He has three children. Alexander
George and Helen. r.