Evening star., 1920-11-18
QUEEN MOTHERNEW
REGENT Of GREECE
Constantine Advised Of Her
Appointment; RhaIIis
Takes Office.

LUCERNE, Switzerland. Novembez
us (by the Associated Press).-Ex-
King Constantine Of Greece has 70
ceived a dispatch from Athens stat
| ing that Queen Mother Olga had been
appointed regent of Greece and would
take the oath today, it was an
lnounced this morning by Georgios
lStreit, former Greek foreign minister.
who is with the ex-king here.
Constantine expressed himself a.
Igreatly pleased at the news. consider
ling the action of the government In
this respect to constitute another tn
umph for the dynasty.
Constantine has made his first pro-
lnouncement respecting his attitude In
! the light of the Greek elections to the
Associated Press.
Il cannot go to Athens at the head
iof any one political party, and there
fore insist upon a pIebiscite for my
return or the return Of one OF my
sons" he declared. 1T is for the
Greek people to decide. II the people
want me 1 shall return to Athens.
unless, of course, prevented BY UNJUST
force"
Rhallis Takes Oath.
T. ATHENS, Greece, November Is (by
the Associated Press).-George Rhal-
i'm embers of his cabinet. took the OATH
of Office before Admiral Coundouriois,
the regent. yesterday afternoon. Those
who qualified in company with the
premier were NJ. Gounaris, minister OF
war: NJ. Raldaris. minister of interior,
and NJ. Cal1ogeropulos, minister OF
finance. NJ. Rhallis will hold the port
folio of minister of foreign affairs.
Immediately after he had qualified
for office NJ. Rhallis demanded the re-
gents resignation. The other MEM
bers of the new cabinet will take the
oath before Queen Mother Olga.
Bands Of civil guards and men from
many military units went through
the city during the day accIaiming
former King Constantine and firing
NJ Venizelos left the city secretly
at o'clock this afternoon on his way
to Nice. The Greek yacht Narcissus
was waiting for him and was escort
ed by three British war vessels.
Prisoners being detained in jails
have been released.
LONDON. November 1s-The Greek
legation announced today that the
new Greek cabinet formed by George
Rhallis was as follows: Premier.
minister of foreign affairs and of
justice. George Rhallis; minister Of
the interior and ad interim Of COM
munications, NJ. Baledris: minister Of
finance and of food supply, NkolaS
Kalogeropoulos: minister Of war, De-
metrfos Gounaris: minister of educa-
tion and pensions. Theodore Zaimis:
minister Of national economy and ag-
riculture, Petro Mauromeghaelis; min
lister OF marine. John Rhallis.
venise1os Blocks Coup.
BIZ Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
ATHENS. Greece. November 18.-
The Venize1ist defeat has brought
about a complete stoppage of the eco
nomic life Of Athens. The banks and
stores are closed and the streets are
deserted, the people fearing a repeti-
ton OF Tuesdays scenes, when a
regular battle was fought between
soldiers and unknown enemies hidden
in houses on the main square. In
stead Of searching the houses that
we're supposed to hide royalists. who
ared in order to provoke disturbances.
squads Of soldiers, under cover. were
shooting fncessantly at the buildings.
while street cars. motor cars. car
riages and pedestrians were paAsing.
without knowing what was going on
and getting into the line Of hre be-
tween the two camps The casualties
Of the day were two children killed
and twelve other persons wounded.
The VenizelistS planned 1 coup
d'etat last night, but It failed, owing
to the stvbborR resist4noe OF VeoiSelos
Himself. who declared that he was
ready to join his opponents should his
friends try to keep him in power by
force
(Copyr.xht, 102O)