THE KING OF GREECE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1427, 22 July 1915, Page 3

THE KING OF GREECE.

A SENSATIONAL STATEMENT. WHAT AN AMERICAN PAPER SAYS. A curious story is published in the New York Tribune from the pen of its Paris correspondent, who attributes his information to (he diplomatic representative of a neutral Power, concerning the cause of the serious illness from which King Constantine of Greece is suffering. It is due, according to this source, to a wound inflicted upon the King during an angry discussion by his consort, Queen Sophia, who is a sister of the German Kaiser. Notwithstanding her conversion to the Orthodox Greek Church, Queen Sophia remains passionately devoted to the policies of her Imperial brother and to the cause of Germany. A very animated conversation, it is stated, took place in the King’s library one evening in April, which developed into a violent quarrel, during which the Queen, whose occasional outbursts of impetuous temper are well-known to all about her, seized a sharp pointed metallic paper knife, and, scarcely realising what she was about to do, being carried away by her hot temper, plunged the paper cutter at her husband’s side. The Queen, so the account proceeds, instantly expressed the deepest sorrow at the consequences of her impetuosity, but the King, naturally viewing the episode on its serious side, earnestly' desired that the Queen return to her own family. The truth was hushed up, and the King, as he would have done in any case, gallantly attributed to influenza the pleurisy that set in owing to the wound. The latest reports from Athens report the King’s condition as far from satisfactory. Several operations have been performed upon him, one of them for removal of part ot his tenth rib. It is believed he is suffering from pleurisy with purulent effusion, the treatment of which consists of the removal of one or more ribs and drainage.