ABSTRACT
When Venizelos read in Parliament his list of charges against the King and his supporters Metaxas was no longer in the country. A few days after the King left Greece, Metaxas was arrested, on 20 June 1917, along with about twenty-five to thirty other Constantinists, such as former Prime Minister D. Gounaris, R. Eslin, V. Dousmanis, Sp. Mercouris and his two sons, G. Pezmazoglou, Ion Dragoumis and others. Metaxas with his wife Lela and two young daughters Loulou and Nana, arrived by ship in Corsica on 29 June 1917 as exiles and settled into the Grand Hotel in Ajaccio.
