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Show KING GONSTANTINE ABDICATES THRONE Affairs of Greece Brought Climax in Affairs oi u cnrt, of About Through Joint Efforts of Entente-Deposed Sovereign Will Quit Native Country. Athens.-King Constantino o hlIS abdicated his throne u avoi of his second son, Prince Alexandu, nU with Crown Prince George is to leave "abdication was made on the : demand de-mand of the entente powers ami I us ends the anomalous s.tuaUon which ,ong has existed in Greece the refusal of Constantme and his t l Z to -ciuiosce in full In tt.e e-mands e-mands of the entente allies foi he freedom of movement of J in and through Greece and ioi then 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 count y of the French senator, Jonuart, 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, aud by other entente forces of Elassona, in northeastern Greece, situated at the foot of Mount Olympus and near the Gulf of Salon- iki. ' . Both the former king and Prince George, it was announced by l'remiei Zaimis,. intend to leave the country immediately. It is reported that they will embrak on a British warship and 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 nntientente proclivities. The reign of Constantine I as king af the Hellenes was brief, dating only from March IS, 1913, when his father, George I, was assassinated in Salonika Salon-ika Brief as the reign was. Constantine 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 the Greek monarchy 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 v.reece and resulted in the establishment establish-ment of a provisional government headed by Eliphtherios A'enizelos, 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-Gorman in sympathies, sym-pathies, largely, it was charged, as a result of the influence of Queen Sophia, sister of the German omneror whom he married in LSMU. Constantine Constan-tine declared throughout that he do-sired do-sired only to maintain neutrality and that he was actuated not by pro-German sympathies hut by considerations of the welfare of the Greeks |