The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-02

anu Wouiu nave uudSHeu II. HOW ever, mightier than the Turkish sword was the pen of Lord Byron, and as result the sympathy of other European powers was aroused in favor of the trampled Greeks. With the aid of England, France and Russia, the Turks were driven out and Greece was declared an in- dependent kingdom, with Otho of Bavaria as its monarch.
 Otho was not very sympathetic with his Greek subjects and the Greeks didn't care lot about Otho, so in 1862 they revolted and de- posed him. As his successor they named the second son of the king of Denmark, who became George of Greece.
 Boundary settlements had left the island of Crete part of the Turk ish empire, and in 1897 the Greeks opened warfare with their former rulers across the Aegean sea and tried to get Crete back. They were unsuccessful. In 1908 Cretans them selves revOlted and declared them selves a part of the Grecian king dom. They were led by Venizelos, who by that time had become ..1Se islands political boss and a real force in Greece.
 cretan Springs Coup.
 When Crete declared its union with Greece, Athens sent an incom- petent prince as minister to the is- lands. Venizelists sent him scurry- ing back home. VeniZelos would have no prince who regarded Cret- ans as his subjects. Venizelos was republican.
 He decided that all Greece should be a republic, went to Athens and gained control of the government. He created national assembly which revised the constitution and named him premier. In the first Balkan war with Turkey Venizelos took what is now some of the most productive and valuable territory in all Greece-Macedonia and the Ae- gean islands. He also doubled the Grecian population.
 When the World war came on, the king, Constantine I, who was a Dane, naturally was in sympathy with the Germans. Venizelos want ed to maintain a neutrality favor able to the allies.
 Despite being held up as traitor by the Greek church, which invoked all manner of curses upon him, the Cretan and his followers seeded from the kingdom and caused the abdication of the king.
 Meanwhile the Turks had become annoying again and Venizelos was forced to leave Athens to straighten out that little matter. Upon his return to Greece the people re- pudiated him and returned Con- stantine to the throne. The lat ter's son, George II, followed him. Another revolution and the Vene- zelists knocked Gorgeous Geor- gios" out from under his crown. Venizelos was premier again. Rebels Steal Navy. Despite the gaining strength of the royalists, Venizelos was elect ed premier for another term in 1928. It was the eighth term. His successor was the incumbent Tsaldaris, royalist and bitter Veni- zelan political enemy. The stormy | genius of Crete decided last March that Tsaldaris, who was believed to have tried to restore the king in 1883, was getting ready for another monarchist attempt. It was the signal for another revolution.
 Venizelos almost got away with it again. A handful of rebels seized the two most important and potent warships in the Greek navy, load. ed them with ammunition, and set out to lombard royalism from the sea.
 At the same time another force of Venizelan converts in Macedonia and Thrace, from which come the crack Greek troops, the kilted Ev. zones, began to march upon Athens from the north. They were mel by government soldiers under tho command of Gen. George Kondylis minister of war, who had had him