GREEK REBELLION

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1926, Page 2

GREEK REBELLION

(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Aug. 23. The Central News Agency’s Athens correspondent explains that General l’angalos was arrested in Spezzia, and was placed aboard the destroyer “Pergumos,” but the commander of the Pergamos, as well as his escorting fiotillm sides with General Pangalos. As the Pergamos had not reached Athens. General ICondylis sent the battleship “Kilkis” and other warships, with a squadron of seaplanes to give chase to the Pergamos, ordering them to apprehend or destroy the vessel and aiiv resisting naval unit. It is reported that a naval engagement has taken place, but the result is unknown. POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED LONDON, Aug. 22. , The Athens correspondent of the * “Daily Mail” states: The politicians whom the late Taxias Cabinet imprisoned have been liberated. PANGALOS OVERTAKEN. ATHENS, Aug. 23. The destroyer Leon overtook the Pergamos. General Pangalos then boarded the Leon, and he lias arrived at Keratsini. THE NEW RULER. A “WOULD-BE MUSSOLINI.” ATHENS, Aug. 23. General ICondylis is nicknamed “Tho Thunderbolt.” Ho is the mbst energetic and most violent leader in Greece. He joined the ranks of tlie-Army in liis early youth, and lie fought with the Greek irregulars against* the Bulgarians in 1905. Ho served in hotli the Balkan and the European wars. General ICondylis resigned from the Army when King Constantine returned to the Throne, and went to Constantinople. 011 returning later to Greece, he became a divisional commander. He participated in the plot which led to the recent establishment of a republic, and ho was responsible for frustrating a royalist rebellion in 1923, when he seized all the artillery and took o v '" - command at Salonika, and smashed the revolt by forced marches to Corinth. General ICondylis joined the Miclialncopoulous Government which was overthrown by General Pangalos. The new leader has been generally known as a “wouhl-be Mussolini.”