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Show OETilRONEMENT OF KING THREATENED GREECE MAY BE PROCLAIMED A REPUBLIC IF SOVEREIGN RESISTS ALLIES. Plan Is to Send Army Against Athena. Force King Constantine to Abdicate Abdi-cate and Probably Establish Estab-lish Republic. London. A dispatch from Amsterdam Amster-dam to the Exchange Telegraph com-pany com-pany say.s that French and British troops have been landed at Corinth, Greece, forty-eight miles west of Ath ens. "Among tho wild rumors as to the intentions of the allies," the message continues, "Is tho statement that they Intend to advance to Athens, whence King Constantine, his court and the government will retire in conformity with the king's desire to maintain armed neutrality. - - '"In Sofia dispatches the question is asked what former Premier Venizelos will do in that event; whether he will proclaim a republic and whether the army will side with him. These reports re-ports are said to have occasioned undisguised un-disguised alarm at the Bulgarian capital." cap-ital." A Berlin dispatch says a note to the Greek government, amounting to an ultimatum, is said by the Overseas News Agency to have been presented ly France and Great Britain. According Accord-ing to a Sofia dispatch to the news agency, Greece Is required to deliver their passports to the ministers of the central powers, failing which the entente en-tente will take "necessary measures." The Cologne Gazette is informed by its Sofia correspondent that the ministers minis-ters of the central powers at Athens have been ordered to burn all the archives arch-ives at their legations to prevent them, from falling into the hands of the en tente powers. Another dispatch to the Cologne Gazette Ga-zette from Sofia sayst hat anti-royalist demonstrations are expected at Athens. Ath-ens. "King Constantine retains the sympathy sym-pathy of only the high military officers," of-ficers," the message says, ' and the attitude at-titude of the army is in doubt." |