GREEK ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1920, Page 2

GREEK ELECTIONS

fAUBTIIALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASBOCIATIJN DOWNFALL OF VENIZBLOS. LONDON, November 16. Yenizelos’s downfall has come as a ! great surprise in Western Europe. French opinion regards it as jy deep ingratitude to the Greece It largely surprised Athens itself when the Bourse closed, fearing a. panic. M. Rallis, the new Premier is a Royalist, a'nd credited with being pro-En-tente though he hates Venizelos more than he likes the Allies. The real master of the situation is„ Gounaris. A Lucerne message states that there are rejoicings in Constantine’s camp. Gonstantinfe has Deceived* . telegrams from Athens aniiouncing the “downfall of the Tyrant”. Partisans at Geneva celebrated the victory. CONSTANTINE COMING BACK. ‘ ATHENS, November 17/ , There is much irritation over the long continued demobilisation of the Greek Army by This was a. big factor in Yenizelos’s defeat. There lias been firing in tho streets of Athens, particularly in the Constitution Square, where the opposition newspapers established headquarters. Some t soldiers were firing in platoons upon the buildings. The Royalists were re- V~~. plying, until panic took place in the ♦ district. The general vollng in Smyrna and Thrace was strongly in Venizelos’s favour. ' U/f Venizelos now declares that he will ' , \ resign and leave Greece. According to a Geneva telegram, exKing Constantine slates that he is not surprised at the elections. “It means my early return, to the Throne,” he says. . • ATHENS, Nov. 16. T Venizelos has sailed for England aboard a Greek vessel. The Greek dip- , lomatic mission aboard will be ed.