New Britain herald., 1915-12-03

made of his policy or his intentions since the beginning of the political crisis in Greece following the second election of VenizelOs by a majority Of the Greek people. The kings brothers, and his children, it can be said, regard with complete confidence the course which the head of the family is steering being convinced that Constantine l. knows the Greeks better than the Greeks know them selves.
 Whatever the personal influence of the queen, who is the German em- peror's sister-and being very clever and very determined, she has no little inf1uence-the responsibility is Con- stantines and the inner council de- Clares that his family supports him unreservedly.
 Would Alter Decision.
 On the ordering of the mobiliza- ton King Constantine did not go at once to Saloniki to place himself at the head of his country's troops as commander in chief. His late illness was given as the reason but the real cause, it is declared, was his unwill- ingness to leave the political direc- ton of the country in the hands of M. Nenizelos and his party. Not even when foreign troops were landed on Greek soil at Greece's second city did Constantine alter his decision
 He merely sent his twenty-five year cid son, the "Diadochos,'' or crown prince, George, duke of Sparta, in his place, and detailed the boys 33 year old uncle, Prince Andrew, to look after him.
 The two are "camping out so to speak, in a pleasantly situated valley at the waters edge, far around the eastern horn of the crescent that the bay makes of the strag ggling town of Saloniki. It is generally bachelors nall because the Princess Alice of Dattenburg, Prince Andrews wife, does not come to Saloniki often or stop long; she is said to find it too embarrassing being herself an English princess, to be in a place filled with British peers whom she has known for years without being able to eN- tend them the slightest hospital ality lest the courtesy be misconstrued as a sort of royal acquiencence in the presence of foreign troops on Greek soil.
 Proud of Cavalry.
 He is a good looking young man, Prince Andrew. Like his older broth CT, the king, he is very tall is clean shaven, wears a monoc1e and bracelet such as the Prussian officers wear and a jacket that fits him as closely as any Woman's evening gown. His prloe IS m ms cavalry regiment A distinguished correspondent took it to be British, so well-mounted, we'll equipped and well-trained are the men.
 Neither the "Diadochos' nor his uncle, Prince Andrew, apparently, can quite get used to the situation in Saloniki. There they are, in their own country, at their respective posts of command in their country's army. any emergency
 Yet it is they who sit idle. For eign troops, guns, horses, supplies, ambulances. aeroplanes pass and re- pass on their way to active work. at the front, engaged in conflict with a nation that has been Greece's bit terest enemy-and the Greeks mere ly parade. The other day the two princes went up to a Greek fortress near Dourbali at the very edge of the , Serbian frontier They could hear the cannonading plainly; they could see against the sky the red flash of the opposing guns They knew every foot of the land where the fighting was going on. Almost it was at their 1 threshold. Soldiers both, they listen- 1 ed and watched for hours. absorbed, 1 eager. And then they put up their
 binoculars mounted their horses and 1 rode back to Salonik.