GREECE'S LOSS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1704, 22 March 1913, Page 5

GREECE'S LOSS.

HOW KING GEORGE DIED.

SLAIN BY HALF-WITTED BEGGAR. CONSTANTINE ACCLAIMED. By Telegraph—Press Association—OoDyricht. Athons, March 19. The sensation caused by tho news of tho assassination o£ King George at Salonika was indescribable. The capital is in a 6tato of consternation. N The streets were still Ml of people at midnight, and the squares, environs of tho palace, and ministeries, and the newspaper office 9 were black with people. All refuse-to believe that a Greek was capable of assassinating their beloved king.

The 1 King's Last Words.. s At tho . time of his assassination the King, who was talking to his aide-de-campe, Colonel Frankoudis, saidi "The capture of Salonika and Yanina is a fitting climax to my fifty-years' reign." Tomorrow, he said, he would visit the 'German Dreadnought Goeben, which had come to honour the Greek King at Salonika. "That fills me with happiness and contentment," he said, and these wore his last words. He wag immediately 6hot in the heart. Colonel Frankoudis sprang round and seized Schinas's hand, "which poised for a second, shot. , Covering the King with' bds body, Colonel Frankoudis'grabbed his asasilant until the passing soldiers ran up. Sohinas, shabbily dressed. in a blouse, was waiting at the corner of a 6ido street. Two bullets from the old-fashion-ed revolver,: resembling a horse pistol, which ho was carrying, struck the King. Schinas attempted' to shoot Colonel Frankoudis, whose revolver missed fire. Dies In his Son's Arms. The King fell on to a table outside a shop, and the shopkeeper . lifted him. Some soldiers running up then carried the King id their arms to a hospital in the vicinity, His Majesty, was unconscious when , his son, Prince Nioholas, arrived. , Ha died in his son's arms. Tho body was wrapped tn the Greek flag and embalmed., and officers in the evening carried it on a stretcher to the palace, Prince Nioholas and the high dignities of the State and clergy following with 1 uncovered heads. '

Drunkard and Beggaiv ■ Schinaa was a notorious drunkard and a half-witted'degenerate,.half Greek,'half Slav. He had recently delivered Socialistic "harangues, and lived by begging. Tlie man. was half-starved, and subsisted chiefly ,on milk. The examining magistrate asked: the reason of the crime, and Sohinas replied that ho had to die soon,-anyway, and he wished to dio famous. ! A Rejected Petition. • ' Sohinas is a native of Seres. Ha was twice dismissed as 1 a school attendant, and petitioned tho King, who referred him to the proper quarter, whioh, rejected hia petition. '. ' v . Sohinas asked tho police to protect Mm from the'crowd, Tho man's college no* quaintances doolaro that' he lived abroad, but lately : returned, Ho declared himself a Socialist, and states that he was driven to desperation by sickness arid' want,; aid' that the King refused t» giro him money*