30 SEPTEMBER 1922, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AFRESH revolution has taken place hi Greece, and this has added yet another complication to the muddle in the Near East. King Constantine has abdicated for the second time. The abdication has not caused surprise as some close observers of Greece had already pronounced it inevitable. King Constantine has paid the necessary price of failure. He took over all the commitments of M. Venizelos without his brains and his brilliant/fair. All King Constantine had as equipment was a rather false military reputation, earned in the Balkan war of 1912. He has led a demoralized, physically exhausted and bankrupt country into an appalling disaster, and he now pays the penalty.