CHINESE PUZZLE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1933, Page 6

CHINESE PUZZLE

POUTICiAL TLUgtO'IL' IN GREECE-

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j (Received March 8 a-t- 11.36 a. 111.)

i,' ‘ •LuNLUN, Aiiturcli i■ j Messages from Athens suggest that the pLiutic-a-l situation r~ pufcyjie. It 1 that General (uTiauabis, president- />f yesterday's military ? cabinet, iuihi&Jiatety. oancoi'jed the ce-uaorHiap apd Plastiras' oc-iier preeauJiiOiiary measures. it, js reported t-tuit Plastiras to-day re-tsiiablihhed t.ie dictatorship, ami arrested the opposition leaders. ‘j.'he latest lijessages pi edict a speedy collapse of the dictatorship. Some provinces have tlireatened 'to march on Athens to hasten its overthrow. iVleaiiyvhile Tsald-ari-s is trying to for irt a cabinet. Yeuizelos seeminglv regards his political, career, as ended, and is leaving by a destroyer thiseafternoon. END OF DIC'T AT Oil SHIP. (.Received .March 8 “at 1.30 P-ni.) SALONIKA, March 7. .•Greece’s resentyi,e»it at. the anti-. cpßsAjhdinQPaL bl.temjpt by plastiras lias.: .respited in lm down-, fail "Northern prisons threatened to iWch oi;\Athens, if tlie.president did not transfer the GovernmentJto ■tjio . popular ’•party," IM/vstirus wmdd be arrested. , and- Tsaldariy conferred' \uider_thVmispit:es of Otlianapis, president of tullwar. council, and Conned a provisional -cabinet, with ■dthanaois as premier, pending the appointment of Tsaldaras. The mil-jta-ry is controlling Government offices, lliey • seized • the newspapers and suspended communication with Athens. .There was a- great- meeting at .the public souiiu'e to celebrate the popa-yaa party’s victory,' the only disturbance being soldiers ■ firing at during the dictatorship, killing one and injuring -20.