GREEK DICTATORSHIP

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1926, Page 2

GREEK DICTATORSHIP

f Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] ATHENS. Jan. 8. .If. Pnngnlo’s is rigidly introducing economics. He lias abolished two Ministers, National Economy and Public Assistance and is imposing a tax of £2 on foreigners entering Greece and devoting the proceeds to road construction. The Dictator i.s also expelling from the Monasteries, Monks under fifty years of age and prohibits further admissions. GREEK DICTATOR’S MESSAGE. LONDON, Jan. 7. M. Pangalos in a message to the “Daily Mail” says:—“Serious national questions and the necessity of effectively striking at subversive Communistic propaganda which lias been proceeding for two months, threatening the State and Society, have forced the Government to assume complete liberty of action, freed from internal reaction and restrictive formalities. I intend carrying out my original programme of consolidating the Republic and seenrins normal Parliamentary life by free elections. The . foreign policy remains unchanged, and Greece remains a member of the League of Nations. The Government does not consider the support of the army sufficient. but its relies chiefly on the people’s confidence.”