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Identifier: constantineigree01hibb (find matches)
Title: Constantine I and the Greek people
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Hibben, Paxton, 1880-1928
Subjects: Constantine I, king of the Hellenes, 1868-1923 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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om the shore, theGreek sailors in silence watched the boats as, oneby one, they were taken away. As the Canariswas towed out, one of them plucked the ribbonfrom his hat and tore it into shreds. It bore ingold letters the najne of his ship—Canaris. The Canaris is no more, he said, a quick sobcatching his voice. Aboard the Lemnos I watched the sad proces-sion with one of the officers of the battleship.There were tears on his cheeks, too. When thelast ship had gone, he waved his arm at sevenhuge Allied battleships, at one end of the bay,and three at the other. Any one of these couldhave destroyed the entire Greek flotilla with afew shots. A swarm of Allied destroyers com-pletely hemmed in the pitiful little Greek fleet asit had lain hugging the shore under the shadowof the arsenal. My God! he cried bitterly, what could weever have done to them! Why do they think theyhave to take away our honor, too! That evening, when the sailors of the fleetreached Athens, an immense demonstration 374
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One element of possible conciliationREAR ADMIRAL HUBERT CARDALE, R.H.N.Acting Head of the British Naval Mission in Greece THE SEIZURE OF THE GREEK FLEET sprang into being, spontaneously. The sailorswere joined by thousands of others and togetherthey all marched through the streets carrying aHellenic flag. Before a rifle range on StadiumStreet an American flag was displayed. Theyplucked it from the wall and placed it beside thewhite and blue of Greece and swept along behindthe two colors, to the American legation. Theleaders of the crowd were petty oflicers and plainseamen of the Greek navy, who spoke the Eng-lish they had learned from their British trainingoflicers. They felt somehow that because twoof their battleships had once been American, theUnited States, too, might have something to sayabout their forcible sequestration by warringpowers. They wanted to tell the American min-ister about it, and beg his mediation with theAllies to get their ships back. It was a simple, childish i

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