GREEK REVOLT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9639, 3 November 1909, Page 5

GREEK REVOLT.

HOW OFFICERS WERE

MISLED United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received November 2, 8.5 a.m. ATHENS, November 1. Lieutenant Typaldos, who headed the recent naval revolt, informed the younger naval officers that the army would participate in establishing a Government capable of radical reforms. Until the crews saw the Sphendone fire at the flagship Psara, and the Psara replying, blowing up the Sphendone's boilers, the majority of the sailors did not realise that an attack upon the fleet was contemplated. They immediately refused to obey the rebels.

The trouble which has lately threatened Greece has been caused by the dictatorial attitude of the Military League, which has had sufficient strength to compel obedience to its commands by the Government. Exception was taken by the Military League to Royal princes holding commissions in the army, and a coup d'etat was only averted by the King requesting the Royal princes to resign. The origin of the trouble is explained in the following despatch, which appeared in "The Times" recently :—The officers composing the league assert that their demands are inspired by no personal or antidynastic feeling, but are under a cruel necessity required, not only for the reorganisation of the army, but in the interest of the princes themeslves. The position of Their Royai Highnesses in the army was irresponsible, the commands entrusted to them being under no actual check, while the privilege conferred upon them by special law to rank at tne head of the list of seniority, and consequently to get rapid pro motions, has caused ill-feeling among the officers. The league there fore asks that Royal princes wishing to enter the army in future should be submitted to the same regulations regarding seniority which apply to other officers.