Notes

P: Aged Paul Koundouriotis, Provisional President of Greece, '72, suddenly ordered out a Greek naval plane, at Phaleron (Athenian naval base) last week, stepped into the ship as passenger and flew for the first time in his life. Destination: the Island of Hydra, 50 miles distant, where His Excellency was born.

P:At Sakonika 200 Communist tobacco workers staged a demonstration before the Governor's palace. Police chased them to the Communist Club, where they barricaded themselves, produced arms and defended the Club for two hours until it was finally taken by assault, gutted. A score of policemen and Communists were wounded, none killed.

P: At Athens the Army-Navy oligarchy which dominates Greece was in high foment last week at the triumph of a clique of ousted Royalist officers who have now managed to regain the commands which they lost when King George II was banished from Greece (TIME, Dec. 31, 1923).

P: The Chamber of Deputies at Athens adopted a new Constitution for Greece, in secret session, and further kept the text secret until it could be released entire in the Official Gazette.

P: Foreign Minister Andrew Michalacopoulos left Athens for the coming session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. Despatches told that he would seek League backing in an attempt to float a $40,000,000 foreign loan.