The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-03-05
BAFFLED The ALLIES
FOR THREE YEARS
FORMER QUEEN OF GREECE A
REMARKABLE WOMAN. NOW
WITH GERMANS IN ITALY.

If one were to ask European to
name the one woman who has done
the greatest injury to the cause of
the allies he would name, nine times
out of ten, Queen Sophia, of Greece
and he would add that there is no
other woman in a position to con-
tinue theoretically the work of i'm
pairing the allied cause. Despite the
expulsion of this Prussian princess
from Greece, with her husband, King
Constantine, and all her children, ex-
cept Alexander, now king of the Hell
lenes, she is not by any means re-
garded as at the end of her career.
AS trouble maker Sophia's name
has become a household word, has in
deed passed into proverb, in most
countries in Europe
In France the queens name is
used for invidious comparisons, and
even in Greece it is used slurringly.
An editor in Athens has just ended
three months jail sentence for re-
ferring to some of her we'll known
characteristics.
When the Teuton allies recently
broke through the Carnic Alps and
swept down into the plains of Italy
the eXiled Queen Sophia was with
them. 1t was announced in the Ital-
ian press that the Greek flag had
been hoisted beside the flags of Aus
tria, Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey,
first in the recaptured Austrian city
of Gorilla and then in the Italian
city of Udine. Surprise was express |
ed at this use of the Greek flag, but
now it is known that Queen Sophia
had followed the armies into Italy. |
Insists on Royal Honors.
Wherever she goes on Teuton soil, |
or on territory occupied by them, she
insists on being treated with royal |
honors and on being accompanied by
a guard of honor from the Greek |
army corps which went over to the |
Germans more than a year ago at !
Kavala. The Greek flag goes with |
her. She remained in Udine during |
visit there of Emperor Charles
Francis, of Austria and at his de-
parture she returned to Gorilla.
With almost demoniacal fury this |
daughter of the Hohenzollerns has
struggled in behalf of the kaiser's
cause since the war begun. And |
there is no reason to doubt that she |
will continue to employ her amazing !
energies for the same cause. For
long months, running finally into
years, she pitted herself against the
ministers of the allies in Greece.
The diplomacy Of the allies in Ath-
ems was a conspicuous failure. The
eXpedient was tried of sending spe-
cial ENJOYS to the Greek capital. One
after the other they returned home,
usually with loss of prestige. Queen
Sophia had outwitted them. Excuses
of all kinds were offered to account
for the failure.
One envoy came back and told the
truth. This was Denys Cochin, the
French cabinet minister, who, after
a visit to Greece, declared that Queen
Sophia singlehanded was a match for
all the ENJOYS representing the 9TH
er side in Greece. He had met the
king, but had excused himself from
meeting the queen. Frankly he adj
mitted that he was afraid she would
turn some trick on him, as she had
done so many others.
OVERRIDE Opposition to Kaiser.
The evil which Queen Sophia did to
the cause of the allies was incalcula-
bly, great. For nearly three years
she upset all their plans. She forced
her husband to violate the Greek con-
stitution, she overrode the will of the
people as expressed by their suffrages
and she drove Greece's greatest
statesman, Eleutherios -Venizelos, in
to exile.
She toyed with the allied diplomats
while planning to betray Serbia and
to bring Greece after Bulgaria into
the war on the Teuton side. The
Greek army corps which went over
to the Bulgarians and was sent to
Berlin to be incorporated in the Ger
man army was commanded by one !
of her appointees, a former officer of |
her suite.
There are many who believe that |
the war would have been over in the |
spring of 1915, with victory for the
allies, but for Queen Sophia Of
Greece. Without her clever work
neither Bulgaria nor Turkey would |
have joined the Teutons. And if the
great expeditionary force of the al
lies at Saloniki has remained impa-
tiently idle till this day it is undoubt-
eddy due to the shrewdness of this
woman of imnerial and roVal birth.