COLLAPSED MUTINY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 653, 2 November 1909, Page 5

COLLAPSED MUTINY.

. GREEK NAVAL COUP. ; FUGITIVES MAKE FOR MOUNTAINS. TROOPS IN ATHENS- - (fly. Tolcffrnph—Presß AJsocltvllon—Oopyrlgni.) Athens, October 81. ■ Farther particulars of ,the Greek naval mutiny,lo;l by. Lieutenant Typaldos, which was put down: by...thp ; Government with the assistance of- the Military League, show that after Typaldos'and, his officers escaped to the land, Lieutppa|it ,s?er|is brought tho destroyer Volos to SftlamiS. >■■■■■■ The commander of tho destroyer: Aspis escaped whilo the rebels woVe changing their clothes on shore, and steamed to Corinth, and there surrendered./. 'l'ypaldos's robcls hid in a wood, and attempted .to:hold'tip a train, but tho gondarraorie captured four pf .tjiem and put tho rest to flight . Two lyonnded officers were arrested in hiding at ','Athphs. "i The,' populiicp =at Athens threaten to lynch. the piutmeers. • Prisoners-state,tliat;Bbty-n|ne officers signed, a protocol tp enforce , the naval demands, but only nineteen fulfilled the pledge. .Seyeral rffiiments, which were mobilised in haSte, have arrived at Athens. HOW THE REVOLT WAS NIPPED IN THE BUD r KING: AND' THE• MILITARY LEAGUE.-' r-.(Hoc. November 1j(10.2a p.m.) vj Athens, November 1yThe action,:ofrt]io!,,fiiithcritifs;in' preventing twenty ■of T.vpalHos's ' confederates from r&? joining; thoiffiliipa largely acfcoimted-.fdr. the failmo of. tho naval revolt. • Tho mutiiions dostroyers on Fnaav night attempted to escape from..Sslamis Bay. ; Tho lojnl fleot ropnlsod them. - Tho mutinous officers then landed, ••v.,::". ... : It is believed in ■ •Athens that Typaldos and the other fugitives' have reached the mountains, and' rpay pursuit; owing to their local popularity. .. : . Business m Athens is almost at a standstill. Many pcpplo believe: that the only solution will bo for King George to invite tho Military League to form a Cabinet. . : ■ . . The ICmg hitherto has-refused ,to havo direct relations with the League.- 1

WHAT KING GEORGE: HAS DONE FOR GREECE

Whilo agreeing that inefficiency in ■ tho army or- in any other.. form of administration is a ' tveaxuess and,.a waste, the "Spectator".thinks that -an .armed; Greece with an earth-hunger would be worse.. "If the programme of the Military ■ League: brings about preoisely and ;only./.what;: is ; ,deiiinnaed-the purification .Of Parliamentary life,. which 'is' corrupt, tho e'(Boiehcy^f,tho.army and navy, and the reduction of oivil cipenditureT-nearly as much good will b.o done in Greece as was done by tho military revolution'. we feat, that if tho tumy and navy, wore put into such !a state : of._ repair (is to ppsscss the confidence Of .tho, nation—a. confidence very. easily earned, wp must remark—they, would,become the engines of, a' thoroughly itronblcsoino and ambitious polloy which, would .unsettle the Balkans from end to end,-. That is , tho danger, and a lery real danger it is. L "Wor.:Wou!d there be any serious chance of jhe Greeks .satisfying, thoir. appetite for territorial acquisition, in- this way,, i Whenever-tho -Greek Army,had finished a war; Europe would be ready ta.step in as a kind, of official receiver and: satisfy, all political., creditors, of-whom .-ttrccce . would only :bo one. Military power iWll-alftays.bo.a,clumsy and oxponsive weapon : for I Greece' to^wisld;. whereas ,'th'e agency t of. the who, is -liked-and irfespeoted itt every Court..ip , Europe, :provid« her with' an .'excellent ohnnco .of 1 , getting most of the things :.to .?hich she a iwaj claim During his reign. the.lomattywklidi; find part of.Thessalyhav? been, ttddtfd: tothe' kingdom, , and evert after tho. disastrous-far.of ?1897 thero was only a slight Rectification of tho frontier to the dtsadvant?goi,qf i yr,oeoe,„^hile.Ji;iiropo:(actTi(illy i' gave.• her.>tn?- snbstanoer.'of. what-'she-• fo'nght forT-virtual: possossion -of»Crete! >If Greece ■Atnnts ,an.: army': simply ns. j,means of extending hcr bordorsi tho/?ill;tlo well to remember that .the King is t~e best. 'qrmy 'she: is ■ ever likely to have." -. ■ .- ■■ Tho King, of Greece, .nocording to "M.A.P.," I ; every yeai'.jnakici 'a.tqur. throtigh most.parts' of Europe ;' h'e'isV.'during' ttis'tpur,..w£at may bo c<-t!lcd a traveller' for his' country, attempting in every way ho:can to gain'l friends, for Greece, and pntting. her- cafe for new developments persistently and'.urfjent'ly. Tho powerful King: l.of En,3land ja Ins brother-in-law; tho Tsar of Russia >U! Ms - nephew jr'ono of.'.||ia 'sons, is niar- [ ried to ,a sister of tho Emperor of Germany! and: another • ia, tho . husband of a Princess 1 Bonaparte, -1 oue of the richest heuessen of Europe and mombor of. the great l House; of the Napoleons. Whatever influence this relationship gives to tho Xing of Greece, is used en-, tuely for the benefit of Greece, . , . There aro. few toonnrofcs ,ini Europe who havo understood, so ,w6ll, and nono better—not even • excepting the England—the business of a King. -.Ho-oaino to. the Green throno when .ho wm but a stripung. of eighteen years; he came as. a m everybody, knows,: ho was tho son ; of .a'Danish JCing and is tho brother of. iour own fluecn—and,', therefore, 'ho came .with ;neariy, every: .disivdvantago: a moiarch cotild have.- Moreover,. .when' he "ascended the :throno.' a revoltition-had just deposed' his deoessori and; .indeed, revolution ceemed to bo 'almost:-tho,Vnorniftl ;condition of Greece."