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Show ILIES DEMAND GREEKSIECISION t H RON E OF GREEK KING MAY BE LOST AS RESULT OF ATTITUDE ATTI-TUDE OF GREEKS. King Constantine Will be Reminded That His Retention of Throne Depends Upon Continuance of Friendly Neutrality. Loudon. The intimation of the lireek government th.it any entente .illied troops seeking refuge in Greek trritory will be disarmed has been the cause of considerable anxiety to the entente powers, and consequently Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's neat-east neat-east visit gains added importance. According to belated dispatches received re-ceived from Athens, Greece bases her .iecision on internatioHal law, while the entente ministers contend that the right, accorded troops to enter the country through Saloniki permits them to retire by the same route, should it become necessary for them to do so. The ministers are demanding that Urceee unequivocally define the attitude atti-tude she will observe should such an ventuality present itself. Besides the claim to hospitality which the entente allies declare they have on Greece, in view of Premier Venizelos' invitation to them to send a force to Saloniki to enable Greece to fulfill her treaty obligations to Serbia, which, however, Greece repudiated, Earl Kitchener and the entente ministers min-isters are likely to draw the attention of King Constantine and his government govern-ment to the fact that the constitutionalism constitu-tionalism of Greece was guaranteed by France, Russia and Great Britain and that it was only obtained after Groat Britain had ceded the Ionian islands isl-ands to the country and the three powers had agreed to contribute 4,000 ($20,000) yearly for the personal per-sonal use of the king. This, it is contended, binds the Greek people to the entente allies, and should King Constantine overrule the constitution, which the followers of M. Venizelos insist he did when he dissolved the chamber, it is suggested In some quarters that King Constantine Constan-tine would be reminded that his retention re-tention of the throne of Greece depends de-pends on the continuance of friendly neutrality toward the entente powers. |