The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-11

PALERMO, Sicily, Jan. 11.-For- mer King Constantine, of Greece, died here today from the effects of q cerebral hemorrhage. The royal exile, who has been living here since his expulsion from Greece some months ago, has been suffering for some time from arterio sclerosis and nephritis, but his death came wholly unexpectedly and with great shock to his family. Constantine had made every plan for starting tomorrow for Naples, whence he expected to go later to Florence, where he intended to make his future home. His wife, exQueen Sophia, sister of the former German Kaiser. and his three daughters were at his bedside when the end came.
 Born on August 3, 1868, Constan- tine was educated largely by private tutors from Leipsic, which was said to have stamped upon him a per manent German influence. His mili- tary education was furthered by at tendance at manoeuvres in Germany.
 Constantine's reign dated from March IS, 1913, when his father George I. was assassinated.
 After having been once dismissed as commander of the Greek Army in 1909, because of popular clamOr against him Constantine, then Crown Prince, became a national hero in the Balkan war of 1912, by leading q Greek Army to the capture of Sal oniki from the Turks, as result of which he was accorded the pop ular title of "The Liberators"
 Brief as the reign was, Constan- tine had enjoyed prior to the begin ming of the great war in 1914, a period of remarkable popularity and had increased the territory of the Greek monarchy by over 50 per cent. His attitude of opposition toward the Entente when their troops occupied part of Greek territory in the Mace donian campaign against the Teu- tonic allies, however, brought him into conflict with the statesmen of Greece and resulted in the estab- lishment of a provisional government headed by Eleutherios Nenizelos, whom the King had driven from the post of Premier.
 Throughout a long series of ne gotiations and conflict with the En- tente commanders Constantine was often accused of being pro-German in sympathies, largely, it was charged ,as result of the influ- ence of Queen Sophia, sister Of the German Emperor, whom he married in 1889. Constantine declared that he desired only to maintain neutral ity and that he was actuated not by pro-German sympathies but by considerations of the welfare of the Greeks.
 Constantine I. abdicated the throne of Greece in June, 1917, at the de mand of Great Britain, France and Russia. powers which had guaran- teed the constitutional liberty of the Greeks. He ruled over the destinles of the Hellenes for little more than four years, during which it IS charged that he nullified the Greek constitution by repeated dlsmlssals of parliament opposed to his pro-Ger' man attitude in the war, created an jntolerable condition affecting not only Greece but the Eentente allies and. in the words of Premier Rlbot of France, had "amply justified the intervention of the protecting pow CTS" In yielding his throne, Con ftantine nominated his second son Alexander, as his successor, ellmln ating the claims of Crown Prince George, whose attitude was regarded as pro-German. Alexander was ac ceptable to the Entente powers ant to Premier Venizelos of the pruvi sional government, which had beer established at Saloniki, and he as sumed the Grown.
 Two years ago, as the result O a popular plebiscite in which Eleu therios Venizelos was repudlated a Premier, Constantine was agall called to the throne of Greece, bu