GREEK REBELLION.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1926, Page 3

GREEK REBELLION.

BREAKS OUT IN GREECE. [Reuter Telegrams. | (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) , ATHENS, Aug. 22. A bloodless revolution lias broken out. General Kondilis is master of tlic situation, and arrested the war minister, Thertoris, and ordered the arrest of the Dictator, President I’angalos. Insurgents occupied the telegraph office and all military establishments. All Army officers placed themselves at the disposal of the new Government, the formation of which Kondilis, who holds anti-Bolshevist views promises in .a proclamation the personnel to be selected on national lines under the Presidency of Kondouriotis. Pangalos is at present at the Island of Spezzia. Kondilis carried out the coup with the aid of the Athens Garrison. He explained that the revolution aim was the destruction of the l’angalos’ tyranny. The fleet and army support General Kondilis, who has gone in a warship to Spezzia to arrest Pangalos. Athens is calm. ATHENS, Aug. 22. Warships have arrived in Spezzia Harbour and Pangalos has been arrested. He at first resisted, but after a struggle capitulated to his captor’s terms. He will be tried on charges of maladministration. His wife escaped. Koidilis promises elections within eight months. He has already restored the freedom of the press. It is stated that the success of the revolution was due to Pangalos’ arbitrary arrests and press embargo, enabling Kondilis to prepare an unexpected coup from the concealment, whither he escaped when the conspirators recently were arrested and imprisoned on a charge of inflaming troops. Proclamations have been posted up in Athens asking the populace to celebrate their deliverance from fourteen months of tyranny. One of Pangalos’s last official nets was to issue a decree threatening heavy fi-nes and imprisonment for anyone praising or blaming royalties or politicians, living or dead, since 1909. FURTHER REPORTS. ATHENS, Aug. 22. The whereabouts of Pangalos is doubtful. It was at first reported that a Government aeroplane bad frustrated bis attempt to escape in another aeroplane, though his wife evaded pursuit. Later it was announced that Pangalos was a prisoner aboard a warship proceeding to Athens. Oil the contrary, he is aboard the cruiser Pergamous, manned by his supporters, which the battleship Kilkis and destroyer Leon will fire on soon if she attempts to pass ’-Corinth a canal. LONDON. Aug.' 22. The "Times” correspondent at Athens states the Killds and Leon assisted by a seaplane squadron are reported to have engaged the Perganios, whose Commnlnder is sympathetic towards Pangalos’s cause and the destroyer flotilla commanded Tjy Captain Kolialcxis, who is "unwilling to recognise the revolution.