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LET THE GREEK KING REIGN

OVER PELOPONNESUS,

In the following interview Mr. Joten Mavrogordato, a loading member of the Angle-Greek community in London, ex- presses to ai Daily Graphic representar tive his view on the situation as between the Allies and King Constantine at the present time:--

This

THE LIMIT OF LIFE.

CRITICISM OF THE PSALMIST.

Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, who cortaia- ly ought to know the subject if any one does, delighted 400 men and women at the New York Academy of Medicine re- [ gently with a talk on "The Art of Grow- ing Older."

of life.

Though well into his eighty-third year, Mr. Chansey Depew was in fine physical and mental trim, getting as many laughs as he did twenty years ago, and rejoicing proudly in his age.

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That there are not more old people in which assure daily regularity, care

the world Mr. Depew blamed on the biliousness, torpid liver, sick headaches,

There is abundant proof that officers Psalmist, who first promulgated the foul-smelling breath. Of all chemists, or from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96, who joined the movement of Venizelohren-score and ten idea as the limit, Szechuen Road, Shanghai, 60 cents there being persecuted in Athens.

ought to be the motives of Allied diplo

"I believe David's words have caused phial, post fres

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more deaths than the great war; ten times More and more, aa recent history is un- folded, that ruler is soon to be pro-Gerover!" he declared. They think they man to the core. It was through his secret ought to die-and they die diplomacy that the treaty with Berbia was repudiated, because he repudiated it over the heads of his cantitational advisors, In the same way he gave up Fort Rupel, Berres, Kavalla and Doxsto to Bulgaria, The giving up of the forts and the sur rendering of Greek war material so that Greek help could not possibly be used, put the Allies in Salonika as a tremend ous disadvantage. Before over the Allies went to Balonika a lot of sacks that be longed to Ramis but were in the Cus toms House at Salonika had been my steriously handed over to the Balgarians while the Greek soldiers who were "kid napped" by the Germans a few month ago oubtedly also surrendered by order the King.

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ENCOURAGE OF TERRORISM.

30 BEVEN GES ** TO-DAY.

"I well remember seventy-five years ago," he said, when I was boven and a half, the village where I lived had any number of old men and women. They advertised themselves. The women at sixty donned a cap, one sort for day, another for night but she was never without one. It advertised her age. The men over seventy lay around the house or sat on the nail keg at the

Then King Constantine has encouraged in every way the Reservists' League with a cap. which are still going on with their policy of terrorism. They came into existence after the demobilisation. They are anti- Allics and anti-Venizelos. The King has consented to become their patron, has auswered their telegrams and received their deputations, Zaimis resigned the

grocery.

"We haven't got those people now- adays. I defy you to show me a woman You can't tell, in these times, mother from daughter. And you'll have a hard time finding a statesman on a nail keg. Everything helps age now- adays; more than anything, the conneo- in between all parts of the world by cable and wireless. There's nothing like alive mental activity.

NAVAL DIVISION'S GALLANTRY.

STORMING OF ANCBE DEFENCES.

AN HEROIC COMMANDER.

DOMINIONS AS PARTNERS.

MR. MASSEY'S PLAN...

Mr. Massey, Prime Ministed of Now.. Zealand, in neknowledging at Edinburgu. . : the gift of the freedom of the city, said: "THE TIMES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]We require now something more than the sentimenting ties by which the parts BRITISH Headquarters, Nov. Sist. the Empire have been bound together. No troops did more gallantry in the A great opportunity was missed at the be recent victorious ighting than the men ginning of the war, when representatives of the Royal Naval Division. To them of the Dominions might have been called It is true that fell, not Beaumont-Hamel itself, but, on to your War Council the first day, all that immensely strong no Prime Minister would have come to section of the German front line from England during the first 18 months of below Beaumont-Hamel to the Ancre, the conflict, but other representatives. It is generally.. and, on the second day, the village of might have been sent. Beaumont. The capture of Beaucourt, admitted that the Dominions have earn- ed the right to representation in purely though accomplished at the laat with un-

Personally I am. expected ease, was a brilliant piece of Imperial matters, such as peare and war work, and it gave England another hero, and foreign affairs. whose name will come to be famous, in prepared to accept the proposed of an the commanding foer of one of the

Imperial Parliament controlling matters - in which the whole of the Empire is con- battalions of the Naval Division who likes at present in hospital with four wounds cerned, leaving local affairs to local par- liamenta. Bar I am not prepared to wait in him. There is every prospect, how

fifteen or twenty years for it, because the ever, of his recovering to learn what thenced is urgent, and we cannot afford to wait. The opportunity is now, and may country things of him.

never occur again. So to avoid any risk?" 1 believe it would be better to begin with

which the- an Imperial Council on Dominions and more important Depen- deneies would be represented, to meet

in London or "one of thei annually Dominion capitals. The Dominions have ceased to be dependents; they must now be regarded no partners in the firm. If it be true that representation should re- company taxation, surely a tax on the flower of air manhood should count. I am satisfied that if the Dominions had voice in Imperial affairs we should find ourselves in the papropared state from a military point of view in which we wero caught in August, 1914.

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Not that he was the only hero of the day, for again I say, what I have said many times, that heroism is the normal behaviour of our men in every nation. Not one splendid deed in a hundred ever comes to be known; and never have soldiers fought more determinedly, than did the naval men on the Ancre. Yet, out of all, and above all that was done, th's one man's action stands conspicuous, so that every man in the Division is proud of him, and already his fame is beginning to spread through the Army. It has been notorious that in all the German lines in France there was more formidable position than the angle immediately abuse the Anere, where in the hill. The line on which the naval Shapespeare's Seven Ages of Men troops attacked on the morning of don't exist to-day, Shakespeare died at November 13th was the stretch from just fifty-two thinking himself an old man. below the ravine, on the south of Why, he was still a young fellow. Take Beaumont-Hamel, to the north side of his Seventh Age-- sans teeth, sunt taste the stream. The preliminary bombard sans eyes, sans everything."

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pledge to the Allies that the Reservists' Leagues would be definitely dissolved, and he found that the Minister of the Interior, in his own Cabinet, was acting on instructions from the Palace to en- courage them to continue.

The British Foreign Office know whe ther King Constantine is or is not guilty of definitely inviting the Germans on to Greek territory and definitely giving them military information. If they pub fish all the evidence they pussces 1 In believe it would prove him guilty. this connection let it be recalled that ahia standard. Greek paper has published the story of a German mail bag captured in Thessaly on its way from Athens to Berlin.

BROKEN GUARANTIES,

DAVID

"LIVED THE LIFE."

A BIDDEN REDOUBT.

Their extreme right rested on the "We ought not to fail to take David's Ancre, and it went with a rush across character into consideration as well as the level of the valley bottom. As the his words. He died in the early seven-ground rese northward, the centre of the

of man it was who tells you you must die at seventy."

You ask me if the Allies could depose

I believe so. "Beties, but he had lived the life. From line had to attack diagonally along the King Constantine. cause, under the treaties, the King of a shepherd boy he'd risen until he was Gicode is really in a sense, the Commis King. He got everything he could. It sinner of the three Powers for the pro-is even said it a few husbands were in The guar his way, he'd send them to the forefront tection of the commonweal.

Consider the sort anteb at the Powers is not given to the of the nearest battle. King of Greece, but to the Grock people The one thing quite evident from all the treaties is that the Protecting Powers for the Greeks. The treaties are full of guaranteed Constitutional government phrases like

in the interests of the Grock nation," which shows clearly that they intended that the Greeks should have democratic control of their policy. In 1856, at the Conference of Paris, they work. There was an old gentleman Earl of Clarendon, discussing the situa-ext to Chevrel at the banquet, who kept filling his glass and loasting everybody tion in Grecce said:-

in sight.

Chevrel kept pushing him The Protecting Powers may agree down into his seat. I asked who the old among themselves upon the remedy which it is indispensable to apply to a systers fellow was, 'Oh,' said my friend, that's injurious to the country and which has Chevrel's son, his oldest boy, seventy altogether departed from the object which they had proposed to themselves when

"there establishing

independent and the monarchy for the well-being prosperity of the Greek people."

That shows very well the theory upon which the Greek King holds his tenure.

slope of the hill, the extreme left being on the highest ground. About a third of the way along just at the top of the alope, some 500 yards from the Anere, there was a German redoubt, or strong point, so hidden by the curve of the stope as to be invisible from in front, com- "A man can live to be one hundred," posed of a triangle of three deep pits with he went on. "I knew one centenarian concrete emplacements for machine-guns, Chevrel, the great French chemist. 1 which could. fire almost flush with the attended his birthday celebration and surface of the ground and sweep the asked him how he did it. He said, Talope in all directions. never used alcohol or tobacco, and I like

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Mr. Deper here handed forth a few tipe conducive to longevity:--

"Get up early, no matter how late you go to bed. All long-lived persons are early risers,

line reached, nor those who had been detached at various points on the ad- Vance to clean out and hold the trenches, and dugouts which had been passed and left behind It was in getting these men together during the night that the officer received his second wound,

At the first sign of dawn, at 6 o'clock, with the men whom he had got together, he went on again against the village of Beaucourt. There was something less. than a quarter of an hour of hand-to- hand fighting; and then the village, was ours When daylight came our men wera safely digging in on the farther side of Bearcourt, and then it was that, with four wounds in him now, the gallant officer had to be taken back. There is seldom a case in war where success is so clearly due to one man's personality, as by common consent among the men of the Division it is pronounced to have been here. The officer in question haa. already the D.S.O., won in Gallipoli, and he has distinguished himself ele where by his bravery and gift of. Just at the time when the capture of: Beaucourt was accomplished we also cons pleted the reduction of the redoubt in the

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A TANK AND A CHAPLAIS.

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In the darkness of 3 o'clock in the morning a Tank" advanced, as far as the enemy's front-line treach Unable to reach advantageously the redoubt, in the position in which it lay, the crew of the tank climbed out of the fortress with their machine-guns and proceeded to train them upon the redoubt at a range of 50 yards or so. The spectacle was more than the garrison of the redoubt could stand; and before the machine-guos. had opened fire from their new position a white fag was hoisted out of the depths. of the earth and the redoubt surrendered It contained 260 unwounded men.

The main first, line consisted essentially of thice chief parallel trenches, at inter- vals of 30 or 75 yards, with numerous intermediate and interfacing trenches and strong points. The redoubt was situated immediately behind the front trench, reaching back to and resting un the second Dur men everywhere stort ed over the front trench. On the right they went straight on, along the valley bottom and the lower part of the slope, pushing as our barrage lifted, cad carry ing line after line of trench, rushing many minor positions, on to the dip along which runs across their front the Now the Allies must really decide on

sunken road, going up from the Anere

This was at a'clock, and with the some definite policy. It is no use trying

to Beaumont-Hamel on the left,

On this road they rested while other capitulation of the redoubt the centre to compromise between the two Govern- ments the Royalist and the Venizelist.

was able to push on, and the men went By all means let King Constantive prove

troops-still of the Naval Division—carse his good faith if he will by calling

up and went through them, up the op forward gaily, cleaning out the trenches. posing slope of the dip, till they had and miner positions, which still remainedy Venizelos, who was the last Prime Minis

won a line beyond. Then, the first line full of Germans. In all, in the two? ter with ALY Constitutional authority.

Have some special interest apart catching up with these again, they all days' fighting, one Division took 1,725. But it is quite clear to me that he would from your business. Mine is the plateswept on together up to the very edge prisoners. They had advanced neatly

than akake hands form. rather do anything to Allics cannot (There are a lot of line in the world.) charge, covering a good 1,500 yards 1,200 yards, and on the whole of that There are many who like golf.of Beaucourt It was a magnificent 2,000 yards on their entire front of about with bring about a reconciliation between the

I got sport, let service be your recrea straight ahead. It was at the very out-front they had broken through and ear King and Venizelos, then let them ease tion.

set, in crossing No Man's Land, that the tured the vaunted defences of the Ger the extraordinary dallying in which they

The greatest of recreations is service, battalion commander of whom I have I should like to

triat Grst line at what was believed to bo have been indulging.

And, and there is plenty of need for it; ser-spoken had received his first wound, but one of its very strongest points.

ice to the church, the nation, the State, he led his uen, in spite of it, all the with the ground, they had taken the the city:

see them recognise the Venizelos Govern- ment, expel from Atheng about 200 of the old party Greeks, who are Venizelos personal enemies; then either deport King Constantine altogether or--better still-ahut him up in Peloponnesus and let him reign there. Let him rule over a amall Grecce the Greece where the cur- rants come from. He would be perfectly happy and quite safe, because the Allies have complete control of the Pelopon-

nesus

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A HUNDRED YEARS AGO,

A BISHOP'S COMPARISON.

way.

village of Beaucourt.

DEADLY MACHINE-GEN FIRE,

In such an operation as, this mang While the extreme right. of the line men do doads which deserve, as I have was thus winning glory, the right centre said, to be sung almost as much as those was held up by the redoubt, and while of the officer of whom I have told. One the machine-guns in the redoubt thus would like to tell at length the tale of checked the troops immediately in front the officer of the trench-mortar battery, of them, even more did they sweep the the name of whose father (and still more ground along the face of the slope to that of his mother) is known wherever The Bishop of London (says the the left. Here were other troops of the the English language is spoken, who led Observer) is reported to have stated that Royal Naval Division. They suffered the Tank into action against, the "hundred years ago London was more badly from the machine guns, which redoubt. It was not strictly his busi- godly than it is to-day." What signi- Bounce the Bishop attaches to the word poured a stream of lead acroer the rising nest, but he "knew the road" (having Jakob Dirkzwager and the German

godly we do not know, but if he ground, but nothing stopped them. They been putting mortars into the beastly won the first and second trenches, and place for half a day), and did most agent Hansen, who were accused of

means righteous and righteousness must then, as on the right, supporta came up, gallantly a service of great danger. espionage in favour of Germany in certainly be one of the attributes of and, breasting the machine-gun fire, here, There is also the chaplain of the troops respect of ships taking foodstats to. deity-then a few typical incidents quoted as on the farther right, they pushed in support on the further left, who, most. England, were sentenced last month to from the Observer of a century ago serve 15 months' and six months' imprisonment to show what level of morals and taste straight on across the dip and sunken insubordinately went over the parapets The Court practically doubled the Dr. Ingram thinks is ethically superior court.

with his men,unarmed save for a huge sentence asked for by the Public Promou to that of to day :→→→

-Arrived there, all troops made juscenthusiasm and his fear of God -- and tor, namely, aix and three months

Private of the Sussex Regiment received tion, and a line was formed on the Beau then ads a hobby of gathering prison- respectively,

court-Beaumont-Hamel road. But beers, as if he were forming a collection 522 lashes in the public park, Nottinghind this line, made by union of the of them. He went fearlessly and unscathe bam.

extreme left-hand and right-hand troops,ed about the open and whocdled the Wife, the mother of eleven children, the centre was hung up by the redoubt,covering Germans out of shell holes and offered for sale at Cirencester with a

and in the intermediate space behind hiding places talking gently to them im balter round her neck, and sold for 2s.

our advanced positions the Germans, in his Irish way, and leading them back to Sentence of death for stealing a silver strength, still held the centre part of where they would be safer. watch (Northamptonshire Assize).

trenches over the two ends of which we But the essential thing is not the por Inmate of Bedlam chained to his bed had swept. The redoubt remained informance of any individual but the gal for 13 years, though he had long lucid tact, and various other positions were lant way in which the men of the Naval still in the enemy's hands. We had our Division proved themselves, Everybody, intervala (Statement in Parliament).

one thin line far out in front, but behind knows how some of them were sent to Total number of non-resident clergy, 6.331; number of resident clergy, 4,490.

it, between it and the place from which Antwerp, where they never got a chance, (Parliamentary return.)

we had started, were undoubtedly many In Gallipoli they had a chance and used Shiploads of women convicts dispatched more Germans than there were British it; but everything there was dimmed by to New South Wales,

soldiers. I have told in a former massage the end conclusion of the expedition how, just above here, the "Y" ravine Since then troops of the Division have "A grand main of cocks" fought at

held out until next morning, when it done valuable but inconspicuous worked Henfield between "the Gentlemen of

upon the front in France and Belgium; Sussex and the Gentlemen of Kent" yielded up 700 prisoners. Bo it was

but this was their first introduction to for £200 a match and £500 the odd.

That evening, going along our ad the Somme. They have, to use an One eighth of the population in receiptvanced positions and gathering what Americanism, made good." Their obe of poor law relief.

Chimney sweeper's boy suffocated mon he could, the battalion commander regret is that they did not have amongåt through coming down the wrong chimney, found that he had about 600 men whom the troops against them some of the Four men exhibited in the pillory and he could see for an advance. This did German Naval Division which was on plentifully pelted with garbage, rotten not include those in the machine-gun this front, not far from this same point £ggs, etc.

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