. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. quare was illuminated brightly. All the balconieswere packed with people. The terrace before theGrande Bretagne was black with sight-seers. Andeverywhere in the forefront were rows of eager,vivacious Greek children, many of them the soldiersof the future. We had to wait for a very long time. But at lastthe king came in an open carriage, driving with theDiadochos, as the crown-prince is always called inGreece. Both were in uniform. There was no cere-monial escort, so the people formed an unceremonialone. They ran with the carriage, shouting,
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. quare was illuminated brightly. All the balconieswere packed with people. The terrace before theGrande Bretagne was black with sight-seers. Andeverywhere in the forefront were rows of eager,vivacious Greek children, many of them the soldiersof the future. We had to wait for a very long time. But at lastthe king came in an open carriage, driving with theDiadochos, as the crown-prince is always called inGreece. Both were in uniform. There was no cere-monial escort, so the people formed an unceremonialone. They ran with the carriage, shouting, wavingtheir hats and handkerchiefs, cheering till they werehoarse, and crying, War! War! The great squarerang with the clapping of thousands of before, said a Greek to me, has the kinghad such a reception. When the carriagjes contain^ing the rest of the royal family and the ministers hadgone by, we ran in our thousands to the the great entrance porch there is a balcony,and after a short time slim King George stepped out, qo. FHE ACROPOTJS AT ATHENS, EARLY MORNING IN AND NEAR ATHENS rather cautiously, I thought, upon it, followed by allthe princes and princesses. It was very dark, but afootman accompanied his Majesty, holding an elec-tric light, and we had our speech. The king read the first part of it in a loud, unemo-tional voice, bending sometimes to the light. But atthe close he spoke a few words extempore, com-mending the Hellenic cause, if war should come, tothe mercy of God. And then, again with precaution,he retired into the palace amid a storm of cheers. I was afterward told that, with the whole of theroyal family, his Majesty had been standing uponsome loose planks which spanned an abyss. Theroyal palace, owing to the disastrous fire, is not yeiwhat it seems. Fortunately, the Greek army hasproved more solid, and the God of battles, so sol-emnly invoked by their king, has been favorable tothe arms of the Greeks. No one, I think, who was inGreec
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