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Our Historical Archive
San Francisco Call Bulletin
March 18, 1913. This article is reprinted below.
Disclaimer: All newspaper articles are reprinted exactly as they appeared in the newspaper regardless of misspellings, grammar,
errors, or omissions.
King George of Greece is Assassinated
Ruler Slain While in Camp Before Saloniki
Was in Personal Command of Troops on Battlefield in Rumelia, When His Life Was Taken by Conspirators
SALONIKI, March 18. - King George of Greece was assassinated here this afternoon.
King George, who had taken personal command of the troops during the earlier part of the war, had been here since December, when the Turkish
fortress was occupied by the Greeks after a short siege. The Queen of Greece also has been here and paid great attention to the sick and wounded.
King George in December in December had a meeting with King Ferdinand of Bulgaria to discuss the future of the Turkish territory captured during
the war.
The dead king is the second son of the late King Christian of Denmark, and is brother of Queen Alexandra of England. He was born in Copenhagen on
December 24, 1848, served for a time in the Danish navy, and owed his election to the throne of Greece to the refusal of Prince Albert of England
to accept the throne in 1863.
He was elected to the Grecian throne by the Greek national assembly, with the consent of the powers of Europe, on the agreement by which he was allowed
to retain his Lutheran faith, on condition that his children should be brought up in the Greek Church. In 1867, he married the Princess Olga, a niece
of the czar of Russia.
The king won popularity with his subjects by a quiet reign in which he kept well within his constitutional limits. In the Creten troubles of 1896 and 1897,
and in the two wars which his country has fought with Turkey, he has displayed qualities which won general approval. There was no popular
sentiment against him to account for his assassination.
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