RULE OF THE SWORD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 5

RULE OF THE SWORD.

'J;..-;-;,;-.:i-GREECE'S DICTATORS. .. A , SERIOUS ECONOMIC CRISIS. ' By ;' ; I ; January.; 10, .10.40 p.m.) London, January 10. :.Reuter's Athens .correspondent reports' that the prolongation' of the .-political crisis has resulted• in'' 'analarming economic crisis. • • -.- • .' Capital is ; being withdrawn, left idle, °r..invested abroad, •'debtors■;have^ceased: .to 'pays; and business'.is;'at;'a standstill.' The taxes, which are being collected ;with;.difficultyj ; arsjihsufficient 'to pay the salaries' of officials. •. . 1 V'jV'- : 'vV'V-' MILITARY DICTATORSHIP. .' ;.Tha .Military. League in '..Greece' recently succeeded in having, the' Royal 'Family expelled from , the army, but .so' far has 'not'-Yorced.Jh^' Sovereign'to iabdicate. It' . has. practically in ade Tof ■ tho Legislature' a ■ .registration'agency.for the decrees of'con-' .spirators.; The jeagiie;. thrust upon-.'the: ' Chamber., an enormous scheme for raising .arnatipnaUarmy; of - 450,000 men; ; half frjegidars. and-half. militia. On a previous' ,occ^ioiP rt it {;threaten'ed to' Occupy/ the 'Cha'nißfef.''.'. J'''7' -y • M.':RaUi,. who' succeeded,.. M.' Thebtokis ! ■asiPretiiier, la?t, July, "resigned, after* holdoffice a few -weeks,'\and.' ; went; out re-' fusing, to-, accede to- the' demands- of .tho | lea'gue.;;, M.' Mavromichalis \vas. then sent 'for by thbyEingji and reluctantly promised 'to do tho will. of the league. .' He signed the protocol accepting .its terms :undßr a. threat that if.'he/.did'.hot;':its;-.'soldiers: ■would march.against the capital. 1 /He had no army behind .him,-, and - was.. helpless.Y -The.'MiUtarysLeague 'appears. to' remain, 'so'far- in undisputed: possession'. l Perhaps Its ■'wprstrenemy - will 'be the ' economic crisis-which it has'precipitated. 1' '