Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-09
CREEK KING IS
LEADING SOLDIER
Of HIS COUNTRY
Wars Of Recent Years Have
Developed Many Command
Ing Military Figures Among
People Of Historic Nation,

Athens. Greece Nov. 25.-Shauld
Greece enter the European war arena
some interesting military figures will
b. added to those already in the mar
tai iimClight. for Greece has seen
cutie few wars since the middle
nneteS-indeed, She has seen little
else. and there has grown up among
% certain class Of the Greek people "a
strong military tradition
To the average Greek the great
military figure of his country is Con
staujinc l. the king of the Greeks
But his greatness rests rather on the
tenacity ana enthusiasm with which
he has constantly kept at the bust
ness of building NJ "a Greek army and
the personal courage with which he
has taken the active command OF his
Country's troops in the last two sue
cessful wars. That he is a military
genius iu any sense none of the real
military men Of the country pretend.
The real military genius of Greece in
the as get merely Balkan sphere OF
his activities, is General Victor Dous-
manis general of brigade. chief of
the general staff of Greece. In
Greece only the king is a field mar
shall. and Constantine / is field mar
shall not only Of Greece, but of Prus-
ia as we'll
For his age General Dousmanis
has made rapid strides TO arrive at
the supreme effective command of
the army of 200 men in time of
peace and, roughly. $4,000 men in
time of war He was born on August
20 Greek calendar September our
calendar-lS61, on the Island of Cor
tu He has been a professional sol
dier all his life, graduating from the
military school and entering the reg
ular army at once as a second lieu
tenant in 1883, where he had a rapid
rise in the engineering branch of the
service
Disastrous War With Turkey.
When the disastrous war with Tur-
key was undertaken in 1897, Dous-
mans had already been captain
seven years He was attached to the
general staff of the then crown
prince now the king As much be-
low medium stature as the king is
above average height as dark as the
King is blonde, as silent and unsmil-
ing as the king is expansive and gem
lal the two were in great contrast,
though General Dousmanis is seven
years older than his sovereign
Throughout that war and the long
Years that followed in which Prince
constantine planned and effected the
regeneration Of the Greek army,
Dousmanis was his right hand man.
They shared and still share the same
admiration for or belief in the Prus-
sian system, and despite the training
o. the Greek army as q whole BY n
French military mission, King Con-
stantine and his chief Of staff have
succeeded in putting upon the Off |
GERS Of the army a thoroughly Prus- (
sian stamp
During the successful war against I
me ottoman empire In 1912 the then I
Lieutenant Colonel Dousmanis was
again attached to the staff of Crown |
Prince Constantine and when the lat (
ter became king he was made chief .
OF the general staff, post which he \
held through the war against Bull /
CARA and has held since. In addition .
ne was also his sovereigu's aid-de- /
camp In the war and he tells q story
Nhlch the king himself confirms that
the two were with the young Crown
frlnce George watching the battle (
OF kilkich from behind q cemetery
wall when rifle bullet struck the
sod wrist watch on Prince Georges
arm clipping the watch off neatly
and smashing it beyond repair.
though not even leaving scratch
ON The princes wrist. Both the king
and his chief of staff believe in being
where they can see what is going on
IN d battle.
General Is Modest
Speaking Of the hunors which have
from time to time been bestowed
upon HIM II is characteristic of Cen
cfal Dousmans that he could only
iemmbcr tWo-that he is command
St oi the order Of the Savior--a