There is not time, nor have I the qualifications, to describe the
military operations which followed. In Greece the Crown Prince was
appointed commanding general, and the event proved him one of the great
captains of our day. The prime minister, who was also minister {49} of
war, furnished him with troops and munitions and supplies. The plains
and hills about Athens were turned into mock battlefields for the
training of raw recruits; and young Greeks from all parts of the
world--tens of thousands of them from America--poured in to protect the
fatherland and to fight the secular enemy of Europe. The Greek
government had undertaken to raise an army of 125,000 men to co-operate
with the Allies; it was twice as large a number as even the friends of
Greece dreamed possible; yet before the war closed King Constantine had
under his banner an army of 250,000 men admirably armed, clothed, and
equipped;--each soldier indeed having munitions fifty per cent in
excess of the figure fixed by the general staff.