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Show GREEK PRINCE CALM AT TRIAL Rebellion Reported to Have Broken Out in Three Localities. (Copyright. 1022. by International News Service) ATHENS. Dec. 2 For the first time in history a member of the Hellenic Hel-lenic royal family faced court martial today when Prince Andrew, 10 -year-Old brother of former King Constantino Constan-tino and uncle of King George, was arraigned before a military tribunal charged with disobeying orders while commanding a Greek army corps ngalnat the Turks In Asia Minor. Although he faced the prospect of a death sentence and the execution of six military and state officials vm still fresh in the public mind. An.lr. v. was cool as he sat In the court room When the royal prisoner entered tin great hall of tl-e Greek chamber of deputies, where the military trlbii- j nai sat under the presidency of Gen- eral VlOChopouloa, ha wore civilian I clothing without a vestige of the med- j als that had been bestowed upon him during his military career. Andrew was flanked by gendarmes who carried rifles strapped to their backs. Ho was pale, showing evidences evi-dences of his confinement since ho was brought to Athens from Corfu j on November 27. follow ing his arrest. I Andrew was led to a seat lacing J the president of the court. His law- i yer took the chair beside him. .l I N FORMAL NOD. General Ylachopoulos, attired in his uniform, occupied the speaker':; scat. He glanced at the prisoner, but his only acknowledgment was a nod of the head. Only a few weeks ago the military' head of the court would have bowed In humble homagu to the man he was now trying. The Indictment against Andrew was read, the prlsonor paying careful attention at-tention in the meantime it recitod that the Greek revolutionary committee commit-tee in the Intereresta of the nation, had convened the military court to punish any and all who had contributed contrib-uted to the humiliating defeat of Greek arms in Asia Minor. It declared de-clared that an Investigation had revealed re-vealed that Andrew, while at tho front, had disobeyed orders and that his disobedience had been of aid i? the enemy. The proceedings were conducted with the utmost speed and the indictment indict-ment was read so faot that the persons per-sons In the court room could hardly follow It. "The witnesses will now be called." announced the president of the court-DEI court-DEI ENDS DISOBEDIENCE, The first witness was General Pa-poulas, Pa-poulas, former commander In chief of the Greek army in Asia Minor. His testimony was largely technical, dealing with the military movements and the effect of orders upon Greek movements. The witness Intimated that the officials in Athens were too far removed from the scene of conflict con-flict to know actual conditions at the front when the Turkish army, frostily armed and reorganized, was lunging against the Greeks all along tho Anatolian Ana-tolian front. Andrew listened patiently while all thn was going on, turning once, in a while to whisper to his lawyer. It was known In advance that Andrew An-drew had prepared his own defense. Hla contention was that tho Greek debacle would have been of even greater proportions if he had obeyed to tho letter the Instructions he received. re-ceived. He admitted disobeying some commands but said that he did so in the consciousness that he was doing tho best thing for his country. HEAVILY GUARDED. While 1'apoulas was testifying, tho members of the court found him n object of much Interest. Although under arrest himself, the former Greek commander betrayed no nervousness. ner-vousness. The other witnesses wero held In an ante room to take their turn upon the stand. Outside the parliament building. Greek gendarmes of sworn loyalty to the revolutionary committee, commit-tee, paced up and down the streets, forbidding passage through the military mili-tary lines but those holding passes countersigned by the chiefs of the commission could pass. Although there was an undercurrent undercur-rent of restlessness, the city on tho surfaco was calm. BY DAVID M. CHURCH. International H0W8 Service LONDON, Dec 2. The fata Of Prince Andrew, uncle of King Geor,;. of Greece, who was summarily arraigned ar-raigned before a military tribunal at Athens, charged with disobedience of orders while commanding a Greek army corps In tho Turco-Greek war in Asia Minor was in doubt tonight. In the face of Anglo-Italian protests, pro-tests, the Greek revolutionary committee com-mittee moved up the trial of Andrew two days, arraigning him today In-Itead In-Itead of next Monday, tho date originally orig-inally set. Immediately following receipt of advices that Andrew had been arraigned ar-raigned and that his trial was being rushed at top speed, word was received re-ceived from Athens by way of Koine that serious counter revolutionary outbreaks had taken place at three points in Greece. THINKS HK'LL ESCAPE. Rebellious Greeks, angered over the summary execution of former stale and military officials at Athens eurlie, in the week, rose in arms. The British Brit-ish flag was hoisted at some places by the counter revolutionaries in token of their sympathy with the British Brit-ish protests against the executions. It was understood that tho Greek revolutionary committee was sending troops to put down tho counter revolution revo-lution There was a disposition In British official circles to believe Andrew would escape tho death penalty The opinion WOS advanced that he probably prob-ably would be "degraded" losing his military honors and rank and ordered order-ed banished. Andrew's case took on increased Importance in England by reason of the fact that his wife is related to the English royal famll. She is at present In Athens. Andrew was arrested ar-rested at Corfu on October 27 and taken to Athens where he had been held Incommunicado ever since. no |