The sun., 1916-08-27
Central Empires Back the
King and Allies the
Ex-Premier.
INFLUENCE OF THE QUEEN
Her Husband Risks His Crown
to Keep the Cretan Out
Of Office.
s,.cis, correspoaAenee to rnr srS.

| being, but failed to avert future comON'
| cations. which unfortunately are inevita
be. 4, Ia no* nm pen secret that were
II no, for (deleted By cen
sor) Greece to-day would have been a
republic, probably with Venizelos az
President and King Constantine In exile,
| Then the situation would have beer
cleared up for good. but now the proba-
billy Of future complications due To
Austro-German intrigues will call TOT
further energetic action" to force
] satisfactory and permanent solution oil
me Greek imbrogiio.
Either King Constantine or Nenizelof
MUS, he eliminated. as II IL !mpossin'e
for both TO govern the country. and thu
Feasibility Of n reconciliation between
The King and his former Minister is en-
tirely out OF the question. The kins
| could save his throne BY accepting Neni'
| selos as Premier OF the future Cabinet
| but as the Queen. the kaisers sister
threatens to leave Greece n never
look at her husband in me face, II
venizelos returns to power. Kim Con.
~s:an.ine risks losing his crown. All oi
| his efforts are now directed toward
causing venizelos's defeat in the forth
coming general elections.
What Is now going on In Greece u
nothing less than a great duel Detweei
| the klnK htlu NCHlSCIOps ~ 49, y
senta,ives OF the two groups OF bel
ugerent Powers acting as seconds. the
Central Empires with Turkey and Bull
garla backing the King and the Aliie'
the ex-Premier.
sensitive About the Queen.
King Constantine pretends that he i
not pro-,;erman. His ~sympathies are
for the Entente Allies. he says. and M
IL always very angry when accused Oh
being Influenced by his wife n pro'her'
In-law. Any allusion to his whes ma
tionality he considers a personal Insult
and as he is quick tempered and sus
picious one has to be very careful no
10 touch his weak point lest the Kin
bursts into fury.
Quite recently a Greek citizen wh'
migrated I O America many years ago ant
who %prospercd to the extent OF SAVING
a large sum Of money felt homes!ck
probably a he realised that hi
country was in danger. and decided u
return to Greece for good. He accord
inKly wound up his business. sold every
thing he owned and. having changed al
his savings into American gold. whicf
he carried In a handbag. took the mrs
shin for Greece. The ship was Italian
and bound for Naples. whence another
shin was due to sail for Greece.
The returned emigrant reached Ma
ples and the ship that was To take hin
home was moored alongside the on
that brought him from America. Whef
he crossed to embark on the SECOND
shin. with the handbag containing al
OF his wealth. an Italian inspector OF
po,'I "a sn and ,o,I his story. which In.
terested the inspector to such an extern
that as the expectation OF soid IRON
Italy is strictly forbidden he insisted OF
changing the Greek Afnerlcahss spoSi'
into Italian paper money.
OF course. he was allowed the current
rate Of exchange. hot when the Greer
finally reached his naive iahn ano
changed his Italian money INTO creek nc
lost 20 per cent. on the money that ne
had brought over from America. Nat
urally he vas indignant ana protested
The Greek Government offered sympath.
but not redress. The Greek then asked
for an audience with the KING. VINO wa
SO interested In his case That he promised
to help him.
The Greek envoy in Rome was to b'
instructed to bring the case before thu
Italian Government ana demand com
pensation. Then KIM Constantine. he
ing interested in America. asked hi
visitor many questions and chatted ar
fably with his guest for some time. I'm
fortunately. the King asked his visitor Il
explain how II was that Roosevelt. de
spite his German NAME. was so fab!dlI
anti-German. and the man from America
replied that II was all due to Roosevelt
wife, who was an English m
h'cHeo oos o. INC r@ce'
King Constantine was furious. as h,
felt quite sure that his was a veile,
allusion to the Queen. the more NO M h,
knew that Mrs. Roosevelt was not Eng
iish. SO he kicked the man out OF In,
palace and told him that II served hin
right 10 he cheated by the Italians. q
course, the man never got back tn,
money he lost on his savings.
operatinp with ,he General STAN n, m,
army. headed by the notorious pro-Ger
man Gen. Dusmanis. In the demobilixa
tion OF the IN The men summoned
to the colors are discharged In patches
very slowly II with long intervals II
order mat Inc standardization may h
complete only forty.hve days before &c
'ober y me uate hxed Tor the genera
elections when are TO follow the dlsso
lu''on or the stan onicers lee
lure me men before hey are d'scharRe'
as ioilows' :.
"iou are married men win famii'e'
mos. OF YOU, anu Suu nave psen ea,,ea U