Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-06

ish commanders made several de-
mands for the withdrawal Of the
Turks, but Renal responded that he
knew Of no neutral zone. To the
French he explained that he had oc-
cupied these places because the Brit
ish had ~disregarded the neutrality of
the straits by permitting the Greeks
to have free passage through them.
. EVOLT by the Greek army against
N the government, which was ex-
pected, came on schedule time. The
troops that had returned from the
scene of disaster in Anatolia and
were concentrated in the archipelago
islands rebelled and, using ~battleships
and deStroyers as transports, sailed to
the mainland and moved on Athens
under the leadership Of regular Off
GERS Of the army and navy. Military
airplanes dropped In Athens procla-
nations demanding the abdication of
King Constantine, the formation of a
ministry friendly to the allies and the
sending of r~einforcements to Thrace.
On Wednesday the cabinet resigned
and Constantine formally abdicated
the throne in favor Of Crown Prince
George, who was sworn In. For the
present a revolutionary committee is
In charge of the government. The
object Of the coup d'etat as an
nounced In Athens was to Gust Con-
stantine In order to unite the country
in firm opposition to the Paris confer
ence's peace terms to Mustapha Renal
Pasha and to wage an immediate and
aggressive war to retain Thrace.
Army and navy leaders fully support
the Thracian war, and they say they
a take ConstantinOple.
THOUGH 1t had been reported that
L Bulgaria was ready to seize the
part Of Thrace which she claims,
Dimitri Stancioff, Bulgarian minister
to England, denies this. Bulgaria is
firmly resolved to avoid participation
in any military action" said he, moi
only because the country Is practical
ly disarmed, but also because the new
Bulgaria is an agricultural country
and does not wish to risk a repetition
of her previous misfortuneS"
COVIET Russia formally declared
- herself the champion OF Islam last
week. She sent a note 10 the en-
tente, the Balkan nations and Egypt
demanding the restoration of Turkey
In Europe and warning the world that
she would not recognize "any decision
concerning the Turkish straits taken
without her participation OF arrived
at against her interests"
"A about completed between the
United States and Japan, the interna-
tional technical control of the Chi
nese Eastern railway by the Stevens
commission will soon be terminated.
1t is provided that the commission
shall cease to function upon compile
ton Of the evacuation of Japanese
troops from Siberia. The Chinese
government is to be made RESPONSE
BILE for the continued operation and
protection of the railway, and If 1t
fails in this, there will be a resump-
ton of international control. The
other allied powers are in accord with
this plan. That is the news that
comes from washington. From Picking
come reports that put another face on
the matter. The president of China
has suspended the Russian Boxer in
demnity of about $5.0O0,0O0 annually
and the soviet government, in its re-
ply Of protest, intimates that it will
seize the Chinese Eastern railway.
John F. Stevens, the head Of the COM
mission, according to a correspondent,
is convinced the line Is lost to China.
~ REAT BRITAIN has offered to
" pay s50,OoO,OOO of interest due
the United States, and the World war
debt funding commission has been
considering the proposition. At the
rate of 5 per cent, the interest u In
the next two installmentS October 10
and November 10, amounts to S95,OOO,-
600, but the funding law authorizes a
rate of Az per cent, so it is suggest
ed that the S5O.000,000 be paid Oc-
tober Is and adjustments be worked
out with STR Robert Horne, who is
coming over soon. Congressman Bur-
TON of Ohio, who is a member of the
funding commission, is in London, n
at a luncheon attended by prominent
flnanciers he said plainly that the
United States expected Great Britain
TO nav in full. He pointed out that
the loans made by America were not
given out of an overfiowing treasury
hut were raised, sometimes with diff