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Show M. Dimitrakopo ulos, Former Minister, Selected Se-lected by King Con-stantine Con-stantine to Succeed Zaimis; Greece Expected Ex-pected to Join Allies Before Many Hours. VENIZELOS TO BE MINISTER OF WAR Berlin and V.enna Are Apparently Convinced That They Have Lost Their Grip in Athens, and That Neutrality Will Be Abandoned by Hellenic Kingdom. (SpoHat Cable by Arran.izem?nt with London Dally Telegraph and International News Snrvlw.) LONDON, Sept. 13. M. Dimitrako-poulos, Dimitrako-poulos, former minister of justice, strong friend of the entente and bitter antagonist of what he has denounced as the "wobbly" policy of the Greek war cabinet?, is today premier of Greece, Simultaneous with this news from Athens came a semi-official dispatch that Greece would be found actively on the allies' side, "perhaps within forty-eight forty-eight hours." Would Not Remain. ' King Constantino, after pleading in vain with Alexander Zainii to rescind his resignation, finally accepted it today and promptly requested Dimitrako-poulos Dimitrako-poulos to form a cabinet. The latter accepted. The disappointment, at 6rst felt Le-cause Le-cause Venizelos, the allies' strong man in Greece, had not returned to the premiership, was dispelled by the general gen-eral prediction that he will be asked to take the portfolio of war minister by Dimitrakopoulos, who is his friend. Deeds, Not Words. Meanwhile the new prime minister promptly proceeded to' proclaim that his government will be of deeds, not words. He characterized the policy of former cabinets as "detestable, " and said further: "Now, or never, must Greece decide her final course of action. She must decide to remain neutral or intervene on the side of the entente. This has heen made necessary by Rumania's intervention. in-tervention. ' ' The belief is entertained in the entente capitals that the retirement of the Zaimis ministry is preliminary to the entrance en-trance of Greece in the war with the allies. Recent dispatches from Berlin and Vienna show that there, also, it is regarded re-garded as probable Greece will soon a ban. Ion neutrality and join the entente powers. Rigid Censorship. The precise causes which led to the resignation of the ministry have not been dls'-loed. on account of the exceptionally riirid censorship. A boniion dispatch W-tenlay W-tenlay said M. Zaimis had complained that internal incidents were preventing him from dealing with the external situation. sit-uation. It is believed (n lvndon that his resignation was due to the l-t that he accepted the premiership on the understanding under-standing that he was to maintain neutrality, neu-trality, an-i. in view of the Bulgarian or-cupation or-cupation of Greek territory, had found this impossible. t'p to the tune of the first dispatch an-nouncine an-nouncine thai M. Zaimis had presented his resignation., his retirement was un-expe' un-expe' ted. for it was understood the premier pre-mier had assumed ili'-tatorfal powers and was in an ex'-er' ionally strong position. Crisis Reached. Political Affairs reached a crisis after the a ns invaded northeastern Greece, -ini the followers of former Premier Pre-mier Venizelos served w-ai nine- on Kin if , Cons tan tine I ha t he must abandon the : advisers, who. it was said, r.ad misled ; i.'iin aii'l i t-i oe l bim in favor of Ger-j Ger-j n-anv. At the same time, M. Venizelos j expressed coi :sdence in M. Zaimis. whom he asked ;i".e kmc to support, and it was !'-rsroo, an atr-eement had ben readied under whi- h the Zaimis ministry was -o cor-rvie in power uith the strong support of ;lir Ven-.'ns party. A"er t'.'.e fall of t'e Venizelos cnbinet on' a 1 o-i-ii r.f the king's disagreement j w i ' . ' its P'-h v favn:;n- lp r-rn-,1 nu n t". e war v.uli : .e a. nee. y ainvs t. a s j . ni l: 1 on t'- form a -a'i:ne;. He ri'-uived a ri"'''''" arrved reuiralitv ' Tl'.e calii-vt r '::e,i in nven; .er. b.'.t I ui .1 -ne M. Zaimis was a pa in r'-'-"d t it!.c head of ;--e roverrrr.ert. Ai; V.o-; e'.i advo.-;i;ir.c a'.,-he whs retarded a -lav.n- a wcJi'j'Jcn ;o-aarJ u; en- '.er-tc. |