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GREECE. 



March. Deligeorgis, the leader of the chief Mavromichalis f or War, Spilios Antonopolusfor 

 faction of the opposition, succeeded in uniting Justice, and Rufos for Education. In his ad- 

 the different parties opposed to the ministry, dress, Deligeorgis stated that he was not op- 



and M. Kumunduros was forced to resign. A 

 new ministry was formed under the former, 

 who, reserving for himself the departments 

 of Foreign Affairs and the Interior, selected 

 Demitrios Levidis for the Finances, Antonios 



posed to reform in the army and to the arma- 

 ments, hut he desired first to reduce the budget 

 and remove the deficit of 2,000,000 drachmas. 

 The Chamber of Deputies sanctioned his policy 

 by a vote of T5 to 72. It also sanctioned a loan 



of 10,000,000 for military purposes, and the 

 laws relating to the standing army and the ex- 

 traordinary reserve. The latter went into op- 

 eration immediately. 10,000 men were to be 

 called out, and divided into 3 practice-camps. 

 After they had been drilled for 6 months, they 

 were to be dismissed, and 10,000 more to be 

 called out. On March 30th the Chamber ad- 



journed, and on May 28th met again. The 

 day before, the students of the university, 

 with a large concourse of people, went to the 

 palace and requested of the King, in case a 

 change in the ministry should take place, to 

 form a coalition one, composed of the recog- 

 nized party-leaders. He promised to give the 

 matter his attention. When the Chamber as- 



sembled, it elected the former Minister of the 

 Navy, Averginos, a partisan of Kumunduros, 

 to be its president. This^^vas-equivalent to a 

 vote of want of confidence in the ministry, and 

 Deligeorgis resigned. The King then intrusted 



Chamber, Deligeorgis made use of the oppor- 

 tunity to inform that body of the results of his 

 short administration. The Russo-Turkish War 

 had considerably excited the public mind, and 

 a war between Greece and Turkey began to be 



Kumunduros with the formation of a ministry, thought possible by many. "When, therefore, 

 When he presented his programme to the the late minister showed how he had taken all 



