FEARS FOR FUTURE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1922, Page 7

FEARS FOR FUTURE

.THE KING IN DISFAVOUR

[Tm. LLOYD GEORGE QUOTED,

LONDON, 30th November. Mr. Martin Donohue, the "Daily Chronicle's" Athens correspondent, says: '"We are on tlie eve of fresh grave political happenings. The revolutionaries are moat wrathful at the King's resolute opposition. A reign of terror exists."

A strict censorship has been established, but messages from Paris state that the situation is alarming. Two re-cently-arrested generals are accused of high treason, and they will be tried by | conrt-martial forthwith. The court- ' martial sits permanently, and is authorised to give immediate effect to any death sentences. Princess Alice has arrived at Athens in order to plead Prince Andrew's cause.

. Greek official circles at Athens fear that additional executions may follow. Even the King's life may be endangered. ,

" * Files of Greek newspapers covering the trial of the ex-Ministers indicate that it was carried out in due form in accordance with the ordinary standards of Greek legal procedure. A noteworthy fact is the repeated mention of Mr. Lloyd George's name during the speeches ifor the prosecution, and the cross-examin- : ation of witnesses. It is evident that : the chief accusation against the Ministers was that they hid from their countrymen the results of Constantino's return, particularly the fact that Mr. Lloyd George was »o longer able to support Greek enterprises in Asia Minor. ; The evidence indnded v details of an (interview between Mr. Lloyd George and ;the Ecumenical Patriarch at Downing .street on 18th January, 1922, in which I Mir. Lloyd George, it is alleged, saidi : "I am quite alone. All my colleagues have Ideserted ma," Mr. Lloyd George was also reported to have said: "I cannot do anything for your country while Constantine remains in Greece. It is impossible to Greece to remain in Asia /Minor. I told M. Gounaris this clearly knd definitely.'' Mi. Lloyd George added : "If M. Venizelos was still in power we could treat you differently. Under •M. iVentoelos on* stores and purses were at your disposal. At present we cannot"'give you sixpence. Ido not want ■to see or hear anythingtof you Greeks 1 again, I am fed up with you. The /Greek General Staff has let me down."