[ESTABLISHED 1875.] Manawatu Daily Times The Oldest Manawatu Journal. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1913. THE GREEK ASSASSINATION.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1875, 20 March 1913, Page 4

[ESTABLISHED 1875.] Manawatu Daily Times The Oldest Manawatu Journal. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1913. THE GREEK ASSASSINATION.

Grief will be felt throughout the civilised world at the death, at the hand of an assassin, of a ruler so popular as King George of Greece. In his life the deceased sovereign exhibited all the fines® attributes of manhood,and a realisation of the important duties which Providence expects of those of Royal blood. At eighteen years ne was called to leave his happy Danish home and at the call of the Powers to rule over a strange and turbulent people who just previously had thrust from them the unhappy Otto. The deceased ruler stuck manfully to his post through all the long years, steadfast in his duty. There has been ample etidence from time to time that his heart was ever in the North. He had made a comfortable home there and had placed there all his most cherished belongings. It was believed that he desired to spend his last days in Denmark. In spite of this wish, however, he has been a wise ruler and has governed well. In 1889 an attempt was made by a youth upon his life, but the King, who showed great courage, escaped unhurt. He has now fallen in the recently-con-quered Salonika and at the hand of one who is not an enemy to his people, but a demented subject. It seems that the King, like his uncle, King Edward, of whom, in common with other European crowned heads he was always ready to seek advice and example, showed implicit trust in his people and went fearlessly among them, even in a town but recently taken from an enemy. The British people will feel that the assassination closely touches them because of the bereavement which has fallen upou its recently widowed Queen Mother. Queen Alexandra has had great sorrows to bear in her later years, and the sympathy of the nation to-day will go out towards her. It is not likely that the death of King George will have any important bearing on the European situation.