THE TROUBLE IN GREECE-
GREEK POLITICS. United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, Oct. 15. The Greek Chamber met and held an orderly sitting. The Government proposed important economies, suggesting the amelioration of certain taxes and the improvement of others. It is expected that the reforms will yield £BOO,OOO. . THE PRINCES REMOVED FROM THE ARMY. •(Received October 17, 5.5 p.m.) ATHENS, October 16. At the request of the King of (Greece, the Royal princes resigned their commissions in the' army in a last effort to conciliate the revolutionary officers’ league. Though the Chamber was disposed to support the King and princes against the Government and the league, -the Royalties requested it to accept the Military Reform Bill, which removes "the princes from the army, without amendments or discussion, as the only means of avoiding rthe conflicts which the league threatened. The Chamber assented, ad 23 Bills were passed in an hour.
[Kino- George I. (Christian William Ferdinand Adolphus George) is a brother of the Dowager Empress of Russia, Queen Alexandra, and King Frederick of Denmark. Born in 1845, King George was chosen King of . Greece in 1863,°in succession to Otho I. In 1867 King George married Princess Olga, daughter of the Russian Grand Duke Constantine, and has five sons and. one daughter. An attempt to assassinate him was made in 1898, but happily failed. The eldest son and heir-appa-rent is Prince Constantine, Duke of Sparta. The Prince was bom on August 2nd, 1868, and married Princess Sophia of Prussia, sister of the Emperor William 11., in 1889. The second son, Prince George (born 1869), was High Commissioner in Crete from 1898 to 1906, and married Princess Marie, the only child of Prince Roland Bonaparte, on November Ist, 1907. Another son, Prince Andrew, married Princess Alice, eldest daughter of Prince Louis of.. Battenberg, in 1903. 'The present King is of the Lutheran faith, but by the constitution his heirs and successors must be members of the Greek Orthodox Church. His income is about £52,000, and includes grants of £4OOO each from the Governments of ' Great Britain, France, and Russia.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2635, 18 October 1909, Page 5
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