Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-06-20
KING CONSTANTINE
ADVOCATES THRONE;
SECONDSONRULES
French Troops Land at Athens
After Monarch Resigns.
WILL GO TO SWITZERLAND
Brother-in-Iaw of Kaiser Surrenders
Throne as Allies Envoy Arrives 70
Demand Concession and Sol
dlers March into Capital.

Athens June 13.-Kinr Constantine
has abdicated in favor of hfss second
son. Prince Alexander. His abdica-
ton was the result of demand made
by the entente allies
Premier Zaimis made the announce
ment of the resignation and designa-
ton of his successor. He said also
that Constantine and Crown Prince
George would leave the country.
May Go TO Switzerland.
Constantine has expressed the in
tention of embarking on a British
warship and proceeding to Switzer-
land by way of Italy. Allied troops
have occupied Elassona without re-
sistance. There has been no disorders
in Athens up to The present.
Alexander, the new king. was born
August l. 1893. He is a captain in the
First regiment of artillery in the
Greek army.
Career of Constantine.
King COnstantine's abdication is the
elimination of his quarrel with the
entente allies, which stretches back
to Turkeys entrance into the great
war, and is perhaps the last political
act of a royal career marked by a Sc
ries of ups and downs
Constantine is believed to be strong
ly pro-German. He was educated by
German tutors at Leipsie and married
a Prussian princess, sister OF
Kaiser Wilhelm. His encourage is
largely pro-German, many of the
army officers having been trained in
the Teutonic empire.
Constantine's people are, however.
divided. A portion, prompted per-
haps by loyalty TO the crown, have
supported the king in his efforts to
keep the nation ont of the war, or at
least not to participate in the conflict
on the side of the entente.
Venizelos' Following.
A strong party, however, led by the
statesman VenlzelOs, is not only pro-
war but pro-ally.
Effort after effort was made by the
entente and the Veniselists to force
Constantine TO draw his sword
against the central powers, especially
since the entente troops landed at
Saloniki, tardily taking up operations
In the Balkans following the collapse
of the Gallipoli campaign. But en-
couraged by his queen and the Teu-
tonic league, he resisted only to see
his power wane, his subjects break
into revolt and his army locked up in
the PelOpOnnesus, where it could not
attack the entente forces from the
rear, as 1t was suspected the Germanlc
court clique had planned to do, par
ticularly after the outbreak last year
Of the military against the entente ex-
petition occupying Athens.
Name Significant.
Constantine was born in Athens on
August 8, 1858. the name Constantine
being given him as an indication of
the ambitions of the recently liber-
ated nation to extend it's sway to in
clude the capital of the Turkish en-
pire, and succeeded his father, George
/, on the thone after his parents as
sassination at SalOnih in 1913.
The new crown prince first came
into prominence at the time of the
Greek war with Turkey in the late
nineties.
Greece Unprepared.
Constantine had tried to prevent
the conflict. knowing the Hellenic
army to be ill-prepared, but popular
clamor brought about the clash.
Greece was disastrously defeated.
However, ne regained the national
favor In the Balkan troubles of 1912,
when at the head of 10000 Greeks, he
captured Saloniki, which was de-
Tended by $4,000 Turks.
French Occupy Athens.
Paris. June 13.-French REINFORCE
ments have been landed in Greece. ii
was officially announced. French mill
tary authorities have taken over con-
troll Of the food situation in Greece and
large bodies of French troops have
been moved into Athens.
A dispatch to the Havas agency
from Athens says:
IN. Jonnart has had long con-
ference with Premier Zaimis. He In
timated that the entente desired
greater security for the army of The
east and the establishment of
unity In the Greek Kingdom. He ap-
pealed to the patriotism of NJ zaimis
TO see that these objects were OBJ
tanned peacefully.
M. Jonnart announced that mill |
tary forces had been placed at his |
disposition TO establish control of the |
Isthmrs of Corinth and TO maintain |
order in Athens. These forces were |
landed Monday without incident