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eniors of the Commander-in-C BELLE VIEW
ue be relieved of his command. The King sons for M. Rhallys and a stormy, inter-
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* The Greek can never forget that he belongs to the raos which gars, the world | Tier took place. The Prime Minister, who Homer and Thucydides. Be beliers, or WA then Minister of War, apported believe; that Flarope, day th Smolenski, the King naturally upheld his
THURSDAY NOVEMBER-25UI. son. ... Rimliyi, s tarbalent demagogu the whole world, oves Ita, civilisation to eat so far as to demand Smolensk's OLUBRATION OF THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, Greece, and that it is the bonedon duty of promotion and the King, finding his throat | GRAND DAYLIGHT ~ Europe to satiaty that debt by restoring to of abdication proved of no effect, accumbed COAL DEPARTMENT, Fresco her ancient landmark. We all and Smolanski received the rank of Major BOXING TOURNAMENT
know that after the War of Liberation, the | General, and, at the signs of the war, was IT UN on the rame lines as the
JOHNSON-BURNS FIGHT. SOLE PROPRIETORS or TAKA ista King of the Balglans, to whom the made Commander in-Chief. In this post he
MAIN EVENT: SIMA, OOHI, MUTABE, HOJO. | Crown of the newly-formed little kingdom made no attempts to improve the Army, and NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW as offered, declined, ta sccept it unless not mutil the your 1904 when M. Theo-Gr. JAURDER, R.G.A., 7. Oorpl. STILLære,
Baff, 15 Round Thessaly, the Epirus, and a part of tokis became Premier and the Crows PTIDES | KI Marriott, Naval Yard, v. Suaman í and KAMIYAMADA CÕlleries.
was rainatated in his old position, that the CALDWELL, H.M. 8. Flora, 10 Rounds; for Macedonia were added to the provinces Greek Army was furnished with Mannlicher the bantam-wataht supremsay of Hongkang. SOLE AGENTS for KBHIDAKE, MI
which Turkey was compelled to code riftse and orders given for quick firing guna. Taft Of King Torpedo Depot &. Pt. A Fifty years later, at the forgress It was at the Crown Prince's anggestion Bua Rous Biona Hongrong lik. 8 Rača, Prays Eart TAŬ, and KIGIO-KOMATSU of Ferlin, it was recommended by that M. Theotokis carried & Bill through am, & Raundy The Brst preiminary
the Great Powers that Epirus, as well as Parliament forbidding officers to poso, as starte 3.30-9.a, sharp, 3 Thessaly should be inorporated with candidates, and it was the Crown Prince, Greece, and the failure of Europe to give who persuaded the Minister to sanelen effect to this proviso in the Treaty of gods for annual manoeuvres and for maskotry practice. As Commander-in- Berlin has always rattled in the bresat of Chief the Crown Princo andeavoured to Greek patriots. The Greeks have never enforce the law regarding the retirement accepted the boundaries of their kingdom of officers on attaining the age limit and a laid down by Trosty. Their King is the reverting to regimental daty of staff not the King of Greece, but the King of officers after a tour of are years. the Hellenes, and the Committee which a century ago affected the liberation of the peninsula from the grip of the Turk is still working, though under another name, to Carry out the dominant idea in the breast of every child of Hellas, the restoration of the old empire of Byzantium. It is this over-werning belief in the future and their unbounded contempt for all other races which his led to
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by M. Rhallys and the Opposition soling under his orders. The Crown Prince loat heart and finally allowed military matters to drift, feeling it neatoen, or trim father had found it before him, to combat the inherent democrsey of the Greek people. Bovies this the younger officers lost their con fidence in the Prince. Following the lend of their neighbour, the "Young Turks,” they founded a Military Losgue determined at all hazards to put the Army and Navy
Diplomatic relations have long sincs ceased proper footing. Their first not uns to drive Rhallys from power," not, ? between Greece and the Balkan States. however, before be had succeeded in There is no Greek Minister in Bucharest, making Smolenald Minister of War, Belgrade or Sofa, and Roomania, Servis and by beries of unparalleled fa and Balgaria are, and haye haos, for many sulta compelling the Crown Prince to years represented in Athens by Foreign resign his position as Commander-in-Chief, Office clerks acting as Charge d'faires. Ismasured by some of the moet schäire. No men are more keenly alive to the members of the Military, Langue that thei trus condition of the military and naval resignation of the Crown Prince was the forces of the Kingdoni than the Crown last thing they had ever thought “of. Prince and his brother, Prince George, Rather had they intended to strengthen b the one for a time Commander-in-Chief hands in order that he might carry out the of the Army, the other of the Navy, ecossary reforms, reforme which would Josloosy on the part of the senior officers have the effect of placing on the retired Deutralised all the efforts of the Princes list the hundreds of effete sexagenarians The King failed to support their authority, or in command of aquadrons and com- 199. According to his friends, and these exist panies. They also would insist ca the for the most part outside his Kingdom system of two years' continuous service this was due to his scrupulous adherence to being rigorously saferced in the case of all the true principles of constitutional govern
(Continued on Puga, 9.) mant according to his enemies, who abound in Greece, it was due to his disin clinatios to face a struggle with, the forces maka manská kain drive him from the Throne.
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