The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-29
FRIENDS FEAR
FOR SAFETY OF
GREEK PRINCE
Action Causes Tension
at Lausanne
(By Associated Press,


LAUSANNE, Nov. 29-Friends here
of Prince Andrew of Greece, brother
of former King Constantine, today
voiced anxiety as to his fate in view
of the revolutionary government
execution of the six former cabinet
officials and army officers yesterday.
Prince Andrew was arrested recently
on the Island of Carfu, where he had
taken refuge, and was removed to
Athens for trial, charged with dis
obeying the orders of the general staff
while at the head of a division In
Asia Minor during the conflict with
the Turks.
Andrew is interned at Athens under
heavy guard and is not even allowed
to receive food sent by his European
friends because of the suspicion that
he might in this manner receive Sc
cret messages Prince Christopher
was given a week in which to return
to Greece and settle his personal af-
fairs. He had planned to land at Car
fu on the return trip to visit Prince
Andrews, but abandoned this inten-
ton because of his fear that tho
revolutionary committee might have
changed its decision in the meantime
and arrest him.
Americans arriving here recently
from Greece explained the trial and
execution of the former government
leaders as partly due to the Greek
masses as voiced by the revolutionary
committee to fix the responsibility for
Greece's trouble on the men higher
up, whether ministers Or army Off
GERS.
Atmosphere Tense
The great Importance of the ques-
tions to be decided here is testified
to by the tense atmosphere surround
| ing all the activities of the conference.
The delegates are living under a nerv-
Gus strain similar to that experience
at the Paris treaty-making gathering.
Heads of the delegations hold fire.
quent meetings to talk over agendas
in efforts to smooth out the more
thorny problems which might en-
danger the success of the conference
Correspondents find great difficulty
IN getting the facts and this inevitably
results in the widest speculation. The
official communiQues issued by the
secretariat bureau are meagre. They
are confined to routine statements
concerning the meeting commissions
and names OF speakers. The salient
facts are carefully omitted.
! Question Held Up
The question OF the frontiers oi
Turkey has been held up because the
leaders of the discussion are endeav
oring to side-track dangerous alter
cations in the official sittings by seek
ing to arrive at the general lines oi
an agreement at private talks.
Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish
delegation expressed the opinion today
that the conference would inevitably
meet with difficulties but that the
work was gradually taking shape anc
that there was no cause for anxiety as
to its successful outcome.
I'VE are here to sign peace" sale
one delegate, land peace must bt
signed"
i LONDON, Nov. 29.-The British
cabinet was summoned today to con
slider the grave situation created b.
the execution in Athens yesterday O
several former high officials. The fac
J that practically no news has reached
} here from Athens in regard to the de
J tails OF the execution would indicat,
: that the Greek government is employ
ing censorship as was In the case Il
!, various past emergencies.
The view is expressed in govern
!! ment circles that the executions wer,
the result of party differences anon,
the Greeks. The action of the Athen
government in conducting its interna
. politics in such manner, which is de
scribed as barbaric, win, It is said
will have a great effect in lowerinj
Greek prestige at the Lausanne con
, ference and throughout the world.