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1935.

A KING RETURNS.

N December 19, 1923, George II. took "leave of absence"

and laft Greece "provisionally,' as he put it, Business went on as usual that day and nobody

By an Englishman in Athens

This week the citizens of the STUDEBAKER showed any sign of trying to Greek Republic welcomed back

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By mutual consent of the parties concerned, the marriage arranged between Miss Lillan Wu Yan Yue

and Mr. Yuo Man Shu will not tako. place.

stop him. Now, nearly 12 years

ter, he has return of the King they ejected twelve years

Republic, has been ousted by the Royalist Crown, and the Averoff, the cruiser whilch took part in the Revolution Iast March, has brought him back.

In those 12 years Greece has known every vicissitude- stormy changes of government, military coups, abortive revolu- tions, even a Dictatorship,

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•

THE gentlemanly interchanges between Conservative and Labour in England hear no re- lation to politics in Greece, where a year or two ago 1 deputy in Parliament picked up a chair and threw it at a former Prime Minister and the latter threw it back hard enough to dislocate his own shoulder.

English people find it difficult to understand the internal affairs of such a country. And indeed it is next to impossible for anyone who has not lived in Greece to understand. But the situation becomes clearer if two facts are grasped.

Grevee's

General.

El

The second fact is that Greece is e ssential ly a demo-

The first is that Greece is a i X really ruled by her armed months' forces. No Greek Government Dictator, can stand for long unless sup was ported by the Army or the Navy. The Army is not, as in DEATH,

England, the servant of what BONNAR John Whyte Cooper Bon-

ever Government may be, in ar passed away in his sleep on power; it is potentially master. November 27 1935,

aged G4 Practically every revolution, years. Funeral will pans the Monument at 6 o'clock this after-every coup of recent years (there have been plenty) has noon. There will be short acr- vice in the Chapel of the Resur-been engineered by the armed rection prior to cremation. No forces. And again and again it flowers by request,

is a soldier who takes the lead in politics. General Kondylis, the present Regent, began life private. Two colonels made the Revolution which de- posed Constantine.

Pangalos,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 1935.

SLIPPERY PATH OF SANCTIONS

Italy is to be considered, is in-

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cratic country, and a

suit, polished shoes and a hom-' burg hat.

The country doctor is prob

ably a local peasant who has

studied medicine and come home

the to practise it. The priest is a

ago.

THE middle classes in Athens-bankers and

of

peasant, too, no less Ignorant than rest, who

td elts drinking and thaying

cards in the village cafe like any- one else.

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OUTSIDE Athens, Salonika,

Patras, Corinth and Cula- mata there are few towns worth mentioning; the rest of the coun..... try is agricultural In "the villages they lend a hard life, a life near the soil, austerė. and primitive, with occasional out- bursts of gaiety. They live frugally on black broad, olives, vegetables, resined wine, with ment perhaps once a week. In Lent they fast strictly and look forward

Easter.

to eating lamb at

The slightest tax, the slightest increase in the price of flour means serious hardship to people living with so little margin. So when the peasant considers the idea of monarchy the first thing he asks himself is whether he can afford a king. The popular success of the Restoration in fuct depends firstly on the financial state of the country.

But there is another factor to be remembered. Greece won her Independence only a century ago; she is atlll proud of it.

In romote country districts the peasant still tells the story

NOTES OF THE DAY their French silks and English manual workers who make up business of government.

SIGNIFICANT

The Very Idea!

OUR HOLIDAY

When We Recuperated In The Country

:

merchants, doctors and of Byron as if it were being told lawyers and professional for the first time. And this classes in generali political independence is re- flected in a personal independ- eling to Republicanism.

ence. The country people are Among these are the perfect hosts the poorest vil- intelligentsia, people lager sends for his wine, the who are aware

shepherd offers a cup of fresh · literary anil artistic milk with an air of magnificent country of peasants at movements outside Greece, who courtesy; there is no sonse of that. The visitor to Athens may read Aldous Huxley and D. H. social inferiority. suppose it to be like any other Lawrence and even T. S. Eliot.. This is the truly democratic European capital; a little Some are wealthy.. Some, spirit, and it is seen through- more ramshackle perhaps, particntary among the learned out Greece. In it is to be found but otherwise much the same, professions, are so badly paid an explanation of the instability The visitor sees only the cafes, as to be scarcely better off than of Greek political affairs. It the restaurants, the shops with the clerks and artisans and has to bo reckoned with in the

woollens. And it is true that the third section of society.. All Kings of Grecco have. ON Athens has a veneer of smart SILENCE

been democratic Kings, mixing society.

BUT whatever social barriers freely with their people. For There is a Amall section may appear to divide the none but a democrat would be The fact that the Committee | ETHIOPIAN FRONT

of rich Greeks, a good classes, at heart nearly every tolerated by this charming, un- of Eighteen has postponed its

I now appears that the

wise many

of them from Ale- Greek is a peasant. And not ruly and individualistic nation. meeting, at which the question ones, who adduced from the Italianxandria or Constantinople, only at heart, in origin as well. of imposing an oil embargo on silence that all was not well with They are philanthropic and M. Tsalduris, the last Prime

the Ethiopians campaign, were mis- dicative of a feeling that an ex-

taken. It was suggested that be patriotic, ready to devote their Minister, comes from a village tension of the present sanctions cause there were fewer reports of wealth to the furtherance of art near Corinth. The exiled Gen successes for Italian-arms that the fand learning in Greece. They cral Plastiras, who has made might possibly lead to grave invading armies had come up are cosmopolitan, speaking successful and unsuccessful re- consequences. It is even sug against a resistance not entirely French (even amongst them volutions and had a reward pu gested that Italy might regard anticipated and that the Italian selves) and excellent English. on his head, is of peasant stock. un oil embargo as a military losses had been Bevere. Because In earlier years they used to Look back a few generations, penalty, bringing about a state the Italians were allent, it was be- of war with the Powers impos- lieved that the Ethiopians' claims spend the summer in "Europe" and practically the whole "aris ing it. There can, of course, be no of repeated victories on all fronts (Greece has not quite got used tocracy" disappears.

Always the veneer of sophis- questioning the right of the had some real foundation. At last, to the idea that she is a part of

said those who had predicted a Europe herself); nowadays, tication is thin. An Army sanctionist nations, under the collapse of the Italian offensive, with the exchange against them, officer will go by train carrying League Covenant, to apply an Mussolini's generals had discovered they stay in Greece. They are over his arm a loaf made in the embargo on any commodity: the that their mechanised armies might profoundly snobbish. They can- shape of a huge ring. At a only question is whether it conquer the Ethiopian soldiery, but not mix with any class except wayside station he may put his would at this stage be expedient could not combat the natural de their own. They cannot sit in a head out of the window and buy SINCE we saw you last week, to expand the list. Throughout fences of the country, the rain and cafe or attend a popular enter- a string of fish for dinner.

we've been staying with the controversy over the imposi- the mud and the desert.

In the country the only social some friends in the New Ter- tion of penalties on Italy it has correct; no doubt there have been scarcely be seen on foot in the division is between the peasant ritories, out Fanling way.

extent these deductions may be tainment. Their women been realised that the path of reverses of a minor nature which atreets of Athens-certainly not who wears rough working sanctions is a slippery one, al- | even the Italians must have expect in the country.

clothes or national costume and run-down. Why not take a run They said to us: "You look ways involving the danger ofed, since they are fighting against This class wants a monarchy the "black-cont," the peasant hostilities. Indeed, sanctions | wily and dangerous enemies, men for social reasons. But it forms who no longer works with his up some time?" So we went. have been described as the first proved in battle and the hunt. only a tiny section of opinion. hands and has bought a dark cousin of war, Be that as it. But the Italian silence that silence which to some was almost an ad- may, the League members un-

mission of defent-to us has an- animously agreed to take action other and less obvious significance. against Italy, once she was de-Italy is at a crisis in her campaign clared an aggressor, and, as the in Africa and in her conflict with British reply to the Italian Note the Powers which are imposing points out, Britain feds bound to sanctions against her. She does nssent to the decision "and to

not wish. by making much of her accept the consequences which those who seek to hamper her fight- successes in Africa, to stimulate must inevitably ensue." As wing machine. She is deliberately look back over the crisis, it is to keeping quiet about her advances be recalled that there was an and her plans. However, torres- original hope that the merepondents at the front tiform us threat of sanctions would pro- that the Italian armies have moved vent un Ethiopian war.. That to within sixty miles of Hurrar, that their #ying columns are in hope was doomed to disappoint-contact with the defenders of ment, and there is now a hint Jijiga, that powerful, hard-march- that even the present measuresing units are hunting down Ras will not incommode Italy to an Seyoum and his raiders in the extent which would be effective

in bringing about an early settle-

To some

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ment of the dispute. The result' delfente that a false step at this of the British elections certainly stage might easily have that re- indicated approval of thesult. It is doubtless this cir- Government policy in the crisis, cumstance which is dictating a but the point must not be lost | policy of extrenie caution at the sight of that during the cam-moment. Yet action against an paign there were repeated as-aggressor can be of little avail surances by responsible states unless it is of sufficient force to We men that every effort would be achieve the end in view. made to secure a quick and have arrived at a stage in which peaceful settlement of the dis- the sanctionist Powers have to

LANE, CRAWFORD, pute. There is certainly a wide make up their minds regarding

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the limits to which they are propared to go. A decision on this point may mean much,

spread feeling in "Britain, and always has been from the very start of the crisis, that nothing should be done which should There are grim alternatives In lead to a major war. But the the situation and they will International situation is now so have to be faced.

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"If Grover sees all these before I get them put away, he will stop looking for a job.”

By Ed Kelly.

It reminds us of the time we went for a holiday to one of the outback places in Australia.

Our host, met us at the railway siding in what he called A buggy. After one look at it we decided that the numo was very apt.

He said that he had to get somie stuff at the store before we started for home. So wo went to the store which was also a post office, bank, hitching post, firò brigadë, Ind restaurant.

The storekeeper aid` to our friend: "Ullo Arthur!"

Arthur said, "'Ull Ted. Wot's all. tho decorations 'angin' round the shop

for

"Haven't

you heard?" exclaimed

Ted. The armistics has boon sign- cd."

"Holy' smokej" · ឥគ Arthur..

"That's good news, Missus keopin

right?

about

"Not bad. Didjer hear Hogan's barn catchin' aight?". And ho went on and on like that for hours. A cow walked into the store, took a mouthful of dried apricots out of a box on the floor, and then ambled out again on to the verandah.

Somewhere about dusk Arthur came out of the atore with a a coll of barbed wire, put it on our seat in the buggy, slung a bag over it to maka it nice and comfortable, and said, "Op in."

The horso

with woke up

start, shook itself and then boiled down the street. After opening and shutting three hundred and twenty gatos, wo, arrived at the homestead.

Wo

o all went to bed at half-past six, and after we'd been lying there for a while it began to get real dark. So then Arthur came and woke us up.

Thought I'd let yor sleep in for a while!" he said, "Thought you might (Continued on Pago's.)-