GREEK CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9627, 20 October 1909, Page 5

GREEK CRISIS.

DOCILITY OF DEPUTIES. CHAMBER ORDERED TO TALK. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received October 19, 9 a.m. ATHENS, October 18. The docility of the Greek deputies in voting for measures without discussion, has irritated the Military League, and the Chamber has been ordered to talk again. It is now evident that the King of Greece's action in requesting the Royal Princes to resign their commissions averted a coup d'etat.

Only the moderate counsels of Colonel Zortsas and some of the senior officers prevented violent measures against the chamber last Tnursday.

After the resignation of M. Theotokis, Premier of Greece, M. Mavromichalis, his successor, issued a manifesto, in which he stated: "Now that the situation has become clearer, it becomes plain that the s >le object of the military movement was the reorganisation of the army and the reform and improvement of the administration. The movement was at no time directed against the King or tho dynasty, nor had it as its object the diminution of the rights and privileges o£ the Crown or the violation of the Constitution. The request of the military committee that the Crown Prince and the Royal Princes should be relieved of their high comraandH in the army was only formulated in their. Highnesses' interests, and with a view to relieve them of grave responsibliites, likely to injure their prestige, and to avert the discord and hatred which personal favouriteism and ihe sympathies of the Princes would inevitably have engendered among the officers serving under them. The movement put M. Mav romichalis in an exceptional position. While condemning the manner in which the officers had sought to their demands, he felt he ought to accept office, so that he could negotiate with them with a view to a compromise, and, above all things, avert a ' bloody conflict, which would have had disastrous consequences for the country and the dynasty. Moreover, the reforms demanded by the officers with regard to the reorganisation and strengthening of the army form part of the political programme which M. Mavromiohalis had often advocated in the Chamber and befure the electors and they are, besides, desired by the whole nation."