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New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

visions in a vest monochrome; the
general effect would take on new
oleakness, and the magnetism lime.
stone Of which the Minister is built
begin to look limestone and nothing
more. For a stone interior. how
ever nobly it may be planned. when
exposed unreservedly to the common
light of day, like the nave of Sails
bury and great parts of most other
English oathedrals. seems hard and
unromantic in the eyes of those who
look beyond outlines for color. 1t
was with a sound sense of values as
understood by this kind Of beholder
that the medieval builder who
worked SO monumentally in cold
stone allowed his work to be warmed
with patterns Of bright color.
Detached from the personality of
the Minister, taken elsewhere and
taking with them their power Of she'd
ding dim lights onto cold vssts of
space, of warming and enriching the
atmosphere, this glass would still
appeal imprcssively to all who care
for the store Of history and the pres
ervation of a particular, emphatical-
ly Christian art. The Five Sisters"
window is the chief treasure of the
collection. 1t was in front of this
window that Stonewal Jackson
stood for two hours, saying as he
turned away: "Now l have seen tho
best of Europe" The window sue
ceeds III looking less like glass than
like tapestry, SO flexible seem the
patterns on each of the five long
strips and SO finely do all the forms
and colors intermix. Its beauty has
excited wonder and myth and legend,
but the idea which clings most firmly
Is that five maiden sisters first
worked tho pattern in tapestry. 1t
Is an almost complete specimen Of
early English glass. but at the foot
Of the central light panel of Nor
man glass occurs. The subject on
tho panel is indistinct, but it has
been suggested that originally the
glass formed part Of window in the
old Norman transept. For some OBJ
scure reason it was preserved and
honorably incorporated in the great
or design. Not infrequently, it may
bo noticed, pieces Of ono window
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Ncnizelos Dismissed

Venizelos was dismissed as Prime
Minister shortly afterward and Con-
stantlne set up personal govern
ment. The presence Of Sarraips
army in Macedonia prevented him
from joining the Teuton alliance
Later, the establishment of the Veni-
zelos provisional government scri-
ously handicapped him. But he al
ways kept In view the possibility of
military cooperation with the Cor
mans. A Greek White Book. pub
llehcd by the Venizclos government
containing decided cipher mcssagcs
passing between Athens and Berlin
and other diplomatic documents re-
veals in startling manncr Con-
stantine's pro-German affiliations
The first radio kilograms deal with
MS appeal for loan OF 10000 900
narks~-in December, 1915. Berlin
checrfully gave him this credit. but
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Theotaky to Sophie

Tneotaky, Greek Minister in Ber
lin, telegraphed on December 6
1916, to Queen Sophie:
The German military attachc in
Athens returned yesterday evening
from. the headquarters where he saw
the Emperor and explained to him
the situation; he carried away from
the interview very good impressions.
lie will leave in ten days for western
Macedonia, near Lake prespa, in or
der to reestablish communications
1t is necessary to advise Metaxas and
Manos to develop, as soon as possible,
the question Of bands. Falkenhausen
has been assured of aid and support
III this matter on the part Of the
General Staff"
These Ebands" were guerrillas,
intended to make trouble on Sar-
rails left flank and in his rear. The
Constantinists in Athens had mean
while, on December I and 2, 1916,
treacherously attacked small Allied
detachments landed there, and the
Allied fleet had fired few shots
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
The Care Of Famous Buildings
T~HE life Of great building
B is only kept in state of
Ii complete and telling health

ME life Of q great building
B is only kept in state Of
L. complete and telling healtl
by an incessant expenditure
OF care and skill and money. First
one fine aspect Of its personality
and then, sometimes with embar
RAISING immediacy, another threat
ems to vanish utterly. The care OF
historic buildings is thus success.
sion of crises. Such a crisis. writes
IA. V. c." in The Mancheste,
Guardian, in the condition Of York
Minister has been precipitated by
the discovery that the stained glass
work must be restored and this han.
pens to be case in which the need
is at once urgent and costly. 1t in
wolves the largest collection of
medieval stained glass in England
one Of the most precious of the
material possessions which The
Church has inherited from the Mid.
die Ages. There is danger that
unless the public imagination is
stirred sufficiently by the appeal
which is shortly to be made this
collection will slowly perish.
At is unlikely that the nation will
let this happen. Considered merely
as collection Of stained glass work
as an integral part of the history of
medieval art. it Is one Of the ma
tlonal charges which the nation will
not be inclined to question. One pre-
fers not to regard these works as Il
collection but as part Of the per-
sonality Of the Minister. York Min
ster without its stained glass win
dows would be a still powerful per-
sonality out Of which, abruptly. all
the heat Of youth had gone. Only
the rather chill perfection of form
would remain. Although the Min
ster Is rich in heraldic devices there
is nothing to supply the touch Of
warmth which would cease to be felt
IT the windows were filled with clear
glass. Worshippers who have come
to regard that perfection Of form as
III some way heightened by the rich
colors of the ancient windows would
be confronted when they went into
the Minister with changed person
ality. The holdings Of rolls and
hollows would then be the main di
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
{ CONSTANTINE, his a0ito and their dauqh
~ ters photographed IN their hotel IN Luceyne

munition. Constantine apparentl,
feared that these might fall int,
the hands of The Nenizelists, He
preferred to turn them over, with =
division of Greek soldiers. to Ger.
man safekeeping.
In Ludendorf's Own Story this
version of the incident is given:
"The district east of the Struma
was occupied on August 81 without
serious fighting as the Greek Fourth
Army Corps, stationed there, offered
no resistance and quietly looked on
as the Bulgarian troops marched
past. This corps remained in the
nelghborhood of Drama and Kavala.
The German general headquarters
Immediately ordered our liaison off,
Ger to take charge OF these troops.
They soon placed themselves at our
disposal and. with their consent, we're
eAN'i' ~ NoliItH iNI lulcFu1nenC
there"
Constantinc's truculence toward
the Allies increased after Macken-
sens victories in the Dobrudja and
Rumania. The Allied forces in
Macedonia had been able only to
push as far north as Monastir. The
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

some difficulty was experienced in
transferring the funds.
in January, 1916, Won Falkenhavn.
ch1et Of the German General Staff.
made plans for pushing the German
Bulgarian left wing in the Salonica
sector southwark into Greek terri
tory. Constantine asked for guaran-
ties IN ease Of Bulgarian occupa-
ton. The operation was postponed
until summer. BY the end of May
arrangements for friendly inva-
sion had been completed. This secret
understanding explains the manv
confusing kilograms EXCHANGED be-
tween the Greek r Office and tho
local Greek conn der. The Bull
garlans first came over the line on
May II, the day the compact was
signed. General Yannakitsas. Min
ister of War, had earlier ordered a
very slight retirement and the fixing
OF neutral zone. But in his anxiety
not to let the Greek soldiers and
oflcers know what was going on. he
le1t the latter some discretion. The
invaders were fred on from Fort
Roupel. But General Yannakitsas
quickly enjoined an abandonment Of
the fort and the surrender of it's
artillery. The Allied press suspected
completely, but Premier Skouloudis
Immediately wrote to the Entente
governments: at is entirely false
that tho occupation of Fort Roupel
IS due to a preliminary agreement
WIN the Central powers" But Skou-
loudis had himself participated in
the making Of the agreement.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

have unaccountably got into another.
The keen student may light on whole
groups Of figures which have no sort
Of connection with their surround
ings, and may discover under a dec
Grated canopy single figure stand
ing out in a window of definitely
perpendicular tracery. The Five
Sisters window as a whole has not
the superficial kind Of beauty which
leaps out and impresses every casual
beholder, and many visitors who
have no hint beforehand pass it by
for the great east window, which
happens to be T2 feet high and
81 feet broad and to burn above
the altar in blue and red. It
is filled entirely with old glass.
and. besides its broad spectacular
effect, is = mine of instruction for
the artist or the designer or the
craftsman Of the present day. The
great rose window over the south
entrance still holds much old glass.
and, indeed, in the whole Minister
there is surface Of glass on which
the expert eye of the craftsman in
stained glass can detect specimens
Of every school, some windows even
now complete and some patchwork
OF styles. but all an unrivaled GLORY
of color.
10 make these treasures safe for
this generation the sum of $4,000
Ia necessary. A walk down any of
the aisles will reveal to the casual
visitor the perforaticns which arc
sprinkled over the windows, and es-
pecially over those in the clerestory.
The money is needed to remove
a long incrustation of dirt, to
straighten the leads which have
crumpled and allowed the glass to
bend unevenly outward, and to fill
up the gaps with glass more or less
in tone with the surrounding color.
No attempt is made in the process
of restoration to fill in the figures on
the glass. Where line has been
obliterated by fall Of glass the sub
ject Is left uncompleted, and the aim
of the restorers Is to prevent more
glass from falling by renewing the
leads and to stop unsightly gaps
with glass that will give the lights
harmony they are now in many
instances beginning to lose.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
/HE QUEEN MOTHER Or GREECE auho ncccDfed thu
regency IN the absence Of ny belopcd son. Consfotie

that he would not interfere in war
between Bulgaria and Serbia. He
mad also warned Rumania to the
same effect. In these telograms
dated September 23 and "A, 1915,
M, Passarof', the Bulgarian envov
reported Constantine as saying:
Il hold that when you go to oc-
cupy Serbian Macedonia we have no
reasons to intervene. We cannot
oppose such course, for we should
rave to declare war for foreign Ter
fltory. We are going to act now
with Austria and Germany 1t would
therefore be suicide, if, in op-
posing you, we were to declare war
against two great powers. do not
agree to the proposal of NJ. Veni
2eios that we should oppose you with
our troops and with those of the En-
tonto, for If the Entente has n,cntv
or troops it will send them against
the Dardanelles, and not against
bulgaria. beg you to declare to
your Car that in your action against
Serbia you will have no opposition
from our side. We shall not shed
our blood against you and against
Germany to save Serbia"
Passaroff's dispatch went direc!
to Ferdinand, and not to the Bul-
garian Foreign Office. The writer
said also that Constantine had asked
his help in "getting rid of vcni-
zelos."
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
More Comedy

The same comedy was staged
when the Bulgarians and Germans
overran the Drama-Kavala district
IN August, 1916. The Greek officers
IN the field were left in ignorance
Of the true situation. Only when the
Icuton operation had gone too far
to be stopped wcro they informed
thac kavala and tho whole region
were to be surrendered, under as.
surances." The Central powers thus
came into possession of 200 cannon.
10000 rihcs and large stocks OF am.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Hope for German Vic.
tory His Constant
Theme

courage with which you have reels.
ed during those difficult momen,
"The Entente has again
shown its aim. There is, Therefore
naturally, no other course omen >.
Tino but to revolt openly seains.
his executioners. The intervent;o,-
Of Tino with his principal forc..
operating against the west vino .,
Sarrail will bring the decision :,
Macedonia. The operations in Pr
mania have been crowned with ~,
capture of Bucharest. Much b.s
thereby been gained. Up to ii.
present God has helped. lie will
also be with you in the future and
Will help you, too. Hearty greetins,
and best wishes. I am thinking con
stantly of you and Tino.r
On December II J. Theotaky mas
ter of ceremonies at the court oe
Queen Sophie, telegraphed his rela
tive, the Greek Minister at Berlin.
Tell Falkenhausen former Cover
nor General Of Belgiuml 70 nrocs..
to Pogradez in order to give ~.
necessary impetus to the question ~
the bands, and please send word .,
once by telegram of the date Of -.
arrival there Caravitis will rece;ro
instructions; he will go to Falken.
hausen in order to come to an under
standing as to the operations. II will
be necessary to have, 20 begin with
5000 rifles and 300 cartridges far
each rife; six machine guns and
mountain guns with ammunition. and
100000 francs a month for 900 men
All this ought to be available 3,
Pogradez, as well as provisions. An
action by regular forces in the di,.
trict Of Korytza would give strong
support to the development Of the
bands"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Kaiser Urged Revolt

The Kaiser replied under date OF
December Is in his best manner:
Il am deeply grateful 10 you for
your dispatch, which | have read
with profound emotion. have seen
the danger through which you and
Tino have passed and | admire the
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Captured Notes Prove Constantine Plotted W
Greek King sDuplicity
Was Shown IN
Records
By William L. Mcpherson

By William L. Mcpherson
I'm LUCERNE, before starting
back for Greece. Constantine
II made this statement, intended
chiefly for circulation in the
United States:
That ! am badly disposed toward
the Allies, or ever have been, is
ridiculous. / have never been pro-
German, nor was l we'll disposed
toward Germany in the war"
Such an artless perversion of the
facts would be laughed at in Europe,
where Constantine's war policy is
we'll understood. But clever pro-
Constantine propaganda has been
maintained in this country ever
since the armistice Constantine's
persistent hostility to the Allied
cause has been misrepresented here
as a patriotic attempt to preserve
Greek neutrality.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19


Queen Sophie telegraphed her broth
or, William, on December 6:
BY a miracle we are safe after 8
three hours bombardment Of the
palace by the French fleet, which
fired without warning. The shells
exploded very near US. We took ref
uge in the cellars. Serious engage
ments also took place next day in
the streets; the revolutionaries fired
from the houses. The army and the
people fought in a magnificent man
ner and behaved Loyalty. The page
has been turned. 1t was great
victory against four great powers,
whose troops fed from the Greeks
and who later rctreated under the
escort of Greek troops. Please
inform US when the army in Mace
donia will be sufficiently reinforced
in order to take the definite offensive.
Many greetings. | think Of you"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
ihc Bulgarian Agreement

Undoubtedly, the basis Of an un-
derstanding with Bulgaria was laid
ion@ before the latter entered the
war Venizelos vas allowed to tell
the Allies that u Bulgarian attack
On Serbia would compel Greece
70 intervene on Serbia's behalf.
as the treaty Of alliance required.
But Constantine thought differently.
Messages sent to Sofia by tho Bull
garian Minister In Athens, discov-
cred and decodcd in 1918, show that
Constantinc had informed Bulgaria
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Poor Allied Diplomacy

Inc folly of Allied diplomacy ;r
me Balkans in 1914 and 1915 ena.
bed Constantine to camouhaee his
attitude for a long period. The
French and British governments
we're victimized by his duplicity, Just
as they were by the duplicity of
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria. Constantine
laid the other day in Switzerland
that ne had offered five times to in
servene on the Allied side. These
offers were either apocryphal or
hey had strings TO them. Thus IN
March, 1915, Great Britain, France
and Russia, intending to make q
campaign FOR Constantinople, asked
Hreece to cooperate. Venizelos, then
Prime Minister, strongly favored the
proposition. But the King stoppcd
,1e negotiations and Vcnizelos re-
signed.
In April, 1915, the Counaris Cabi-
"cc replied to a second Entente re-
fueSE Tor aid by prescribing condi-
sions which the Allied governments
were unable TO concedc. In the first
nall Of 1915 Constantine's belief in
German victory may have wavored a
i'sss and he may have felt 1t wise
+" encourage Allied expectations.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Wished Kaiser Victory

y
Gus victory over all your infamous
enemies"
No" as to Constantinc's claim that
he was never pro- German nor well
disposed toward Germany in the
war" His own words and actions
prove CO aly the contrary. After
Great Britain declared war on Ger.
many the Kaiser telegraphed Con
stantlne giving various reasons whv
Greece should side with him. The
King replied, through the Greek
Minister in Berlin:
The Emperor knows that nv NOR
sonal sympathics and political onin-
IONS draw me toward him and
shall never forget that it is to him
that We owe Kavala. After mature
consideration, however, fail to un-
| derstand how l could serve his pur-
pose by the immediate mobilization
Of my army. The Anglo French fleets
rule the Mediterranean and would
destroy our wafships and merchant
navy. They would occupy our is
lands and would prevent tho concen-
.ration Of my army, which can only
be effected by sea, there being no
railways. Without being able to rem
der him any service we would dis
| appear from the man.
"Consequently am Of opinion that
circumstances impose on US neutral
sty, which can be profitable 10 him.
considering that engage not to harm
! his friends and my neighbors. 90
long ms they do not harm our Balkan
Interests"
Who were the Kaiser's "fYiends"
and the Kings "neighbors' here al
luded to? Turkey and Bulgaria, of
course. In reply to this message
the Greek Minister in Berlin telc-
graphed:
"Von Jagow has told me that he
thinks the Emperor will understand
the necessity. expressed by your
majesty, Of maintaining neutrality
for the present. Won Jagow re-
peated to me the advice he had for
merly given, TO come as speedily as
possible to an understanding with
Sofia and Constantinople, adding
that Serbia [Greece's ally] to-day
constituted the skin Of the bear"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Records Against Him

Records Against Him
The main trouble with this fiction
is that it clashes with a thoroughly
documented record. When Constan-
tine said that he was never badly
disposed to the Allies and was never
we'll disposed toward Germany he
outlined what Greece's policy ought
TO have been-but was not. For
many reasons Greece should have
been Entente and anti-German.
In the Balkan wars she had fought
Turkey and then Bulgaria. These
Two countries were her natural
enemies. Turkey had been her op-
pressor for centuries. Bulgaria was
more recent, but equally brutal.
rival and had treated the Greek
population of Macedonia and Thrace
with ruthless savagery. Constan-
tine had allowed himself to be glori-
lied as "the Bulgar killer" As late
as June 25, 1913. he ordered his
Minister of Foreign Affairs to pro-
test to the civilized world against
the conduct of "these monsters with
human faces" adding:
"The acts of the Bulgarians have
made all the atrocities Of past bar
barian invasions fade into insignifi-
canoe. They prove that the Bull
garians no longer have the right to
be included among civilized peoples"
An Ally of Serbia
At the end Of the Balkan wars
Greece made treaty of alliance
with Serbia. 1t provided, among
other things, that each country
should go to the aid Of the other in
case of attack by third power.
Serbia was attacked in July, 1914,
by Austria-Hungary But Greece
didn't fulfill the treaty compact.
Serbia overlooked this failure be-
canse she had other powerful allies
and felt that she might be able to
hold her own against the Teutonic
powers if Bulgaria also didn't at
tack her She was satisfied to have
Greece remain neutral, so long as
Bulgaria also was neutral.
In her conflict with Turkey Greece
had the moral support of the En-
tente powers. Germany favored
Turkey ard took the latter's side in
he conferences Of the great powers
IN which territorial settlements were
discussed. Moreover, Greece was by
treaty under the guardianship of
France, Great Britain and Russia,
which had created and supported the
modern Greek state. And as a
maritime nation her interests were
bound up with those of controlling
sea powers.
Political and economic considera-
lions, therefore, inclined Greece TO
side with the Entente, the more so
since Turkey soon joined the Teuton
alliance and Bulgarian policy clear
ly pointed in the same direction.
But as early as March 10, 1915, Min
ister STREET, one Of Constantine's
most trusted counselors, had drawn
up a secret memorandum which ad-
vised that Greece should do nothing
az all until after Bulgaria had
acted. 1t reduced almost to the
vanishing point the possible advan-
tages Of cooperation with the En-
tente, even in case Bulgaria should
side with Germany.
Poor Allied Diplomacy
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
SOPHIE or GREECE, sister of the er
Kaiser, from q recent photogroph

King kept urging a German-B
garian drive against Salonca.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
4 RECENT photograph Of
L Constantine of Greece

But after the Entente diplomats had
blunderingly pressed Venizelos, who
was returned to power in the June
elections, TO sacrifice Greek TERRITORY
IN order to win over Bulgaria, Con
stantlne felt that the time had come
to drop the mask. The Russians
were being driven out Of Galicia and
Poland. British operations st Gal
lipoll had come to standstill. Ger
many's stock rose, and Constantine
determined to adhere to his original
purpose not to be drawn into war
against the Central Empires.
He couldn't prevent the landing
of the Allied expedition at Salonica
lie couldn't get rid of the Allied
armies after they settled in the
Salonica intrenched camp. He was
forced to yield to many unwelcone
Allied demands. But down to the
day of his belated expulsion he never
yielded except to compulsion and he
never meant to carry out his en-
gagements in good faith. His feel
ing toward the Allies was adequate
ly set forth in this sentence from
the telegram Of congratulation which
he and the Queen sent the Kaiser on
the latter's birthday, January 13.
1917: