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Show KING CONSTANTINE ABDIMTKTHBOHE DEPOSED SOVEREIGN HAS BEEN SUCCEEDED BY HIS SECOND SON, PRINCE ALEXANDER. Climax in Affairs of Greece Brought About Through Joint Efforts of Entente. Deposed Sovereign Will Quit Native Country. Alliens. King Constantine of Greece lias abdicated his throne in favor of his second son, Prinze Alexander, and with Crown I'rince George is to leave Greece. The abdication was made on the demand de-mand of the entente powers and thus ends the anomalous situation which long has existed in Greece because of the refusal of Constantine and his followers fol-lowers to acquiesce in full in the demands de-mands of the entente allies for the freedom of movement of their forces in and through Greece and for their safety from attack. That the entente was prepared to move with expedition in bringing a change in the situation in Greece Is indicated by the fact that simultaneously simultan-eously with the arrival in that country of the French senator, Jonnart, who bore plenary powers to act for the entente, en-tente, came the occupation by the Italians in northwestern Greece, near the Albanian frontier, of the strategic town of Kanina, and by other entente forces of Elassona, in northeastern Greece, situated at the foot of .Mount Olympus and near the Gulf of Salonika Salon-ika Both the former king -and Princo George, it was announced by Premier Zaimis, intend to leave the country immediately. It is reported that they will embrak on a British warship anil proceed to Switzerland by way of Italy. It is presumed that Prince Alexander will take up his kingly duties with full acceptation of the ideas which the protecting powers desire de-sire to be put into effect in the government gov-ernment of Greece during the present war. He is 24 years old and has been free from antientente proclivities. The reign of Constantine I as king of the Hellenes was brief, dating only from March 18, 1013, when his father, George I, was assassinated in Salonika Salon-ika Brief as the reign was, Constantino-had Constantino-had enjoyed prior to the beginning of the great war in 1914, a period of remarkable re-markable popularity and had increased in-creased the territory of thew Greek nonarchy by over 50 per cent. His attitude of opposition toward the entente en-tente powers when their troops occupied occu-pied part of Greek territory in the Macedonian campaign against the Teutonic allies, however, brought him into conflict with the statesmen of Greece and resulted in the establishment establish-ment of a provisional government headed by Eliphtherios Venizelos, whom the king had driven from the post of premier. Throughout a long series of negotiations negotia-tions and conflict with the entente commanders Constantine was often accused of being pro-German in sympathies, sym-pathies, largely, it was charged, as a result of the influence of Queen Sophia, sister of the German emperor, whom he married in 1SS9. Constantine Constan-tine declared throughout that he desired de-sired only to maintain neutrality and that he was actuated not by pro-German sympathies but by considerations of the welfare of the Greeks. |