REVOLT AFTERMATH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 130, 14 March 1935, Page 5

REVOLT AFTERMATH.

TEN DEAD, NINETY WOUNDED. GENERAL ELECTION EXPECTED. A BLOOD LUSTFUL MOB. (United Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, March V\ The "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent at Athens (Sir Percival Phillips) reports that Greece emerges from tho revolution with a casualty list on both sides of ten dead and ninety wounded, with M. Venizelos annihilated as a political entity and his closest friends ruined. The end came when a telegram was received that the rebel officers had abandoned the stolen warships, the crews of which awaited the .Government's pleasure. The best joke of the crisis is published in an interview with M. Vemzelos given to a French journalist at Canea, in which the former Premier said, "I have denifitely retired from politics for ever." M. Venizelos took a large sum of money with him. The censorship has already been lifted. .„ , It is expected there will be a general election in the near future, at which an overwhelming vote in favour of the Government is assured. If he cared, General Kondylis might assume the mantle of a dictator. When the Premier (M. Tsaldaris) appeared on the balcony of the former Premier's house and demanded the death penalty for the arrested rebel leaders, the crowd endorsed his demand with prolonged cheering. Tho Athens correspondent of the British United Press says that the Government 'has asked Bulgaria to extradite General Kamenos (leader of the Macedonian rebels) and his companions not as political refugees but as the possessors of stolen money, it being alleged that the rebel officers seized a total of £600,000 from banks in the areas which they controlled for a week. Mme. Venizelos is alleged to have paid £300,000 to the officers of the cruiser Helle to support the revolt.

VENIZELOS* CAREER ENDED. EFFIGY IN STREETS OF ATHENS. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) , LONDON, March 13. The Athens correspondent of the "Times" says that M. Venizelos' career and the revolution were simultaneously terminated. A* feature of the celebrations was a large gibbet carried by the crowd from which"hung a skull-capped effigy of Venizelos.—"Times." The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Rhodes Island says that before Ins departure M. Venizelos testified to his bitter disappointment at the failure of the revolt. He declared: "I am finished with politics. Greece will never see me again. My only wish was to unite Greece and 'Crete■ in an enduring friendship of the highest level and prestige. "I did not promote the revolution, but it was the only hope of achieving the great future I dreamed of for Greece. I hope to find refuge with friends in France and England."

VENIZELOS A FREE MAN. OFFICIAL STATEMENT IN ITALY. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) ROME, March 13. It is officiallyi stated that M. Venizelos is a free man and may leave Rhodes when he likes. It is not expected that Greece will demand his extradition, which in any case would be refused. TRIAL OF VENIZELOS. HIS PROPERTY TO BE SOLD. ATHENS, March 13. M. Venizelos, who is now on Rhodes Island, will be tried in absentio. His property will be sold and his private house will become the residence of the Mayor of Athens. Martial law will be enforced until the courts-martial have been completed. It is expected that 300 rebels will be tried. OFFICER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.

DEATH PREFERRED TO DISGRACE (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) ATHENS, March 13. Lieutenant Perdisa was found seriously injured from a revolver shot aboard a rebel submarine of which he was commander. It is believed that he preferred suicide to court-martial. He was sent to hospital at Rhodes by aeroplane. REBEL CRUISER SURRENDERS. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) ATHENS, March 13. The rebel cruiser, Averoff, arrived at Salamis, and surrendered to f"ie authorities. EMBARRASSMENT FOR EGYPT. SHIP REFUSES TO LEAVE PORT. LONDON, March 12. The Cairo correspondent of "The Times" telegraphs that the Egyptian authorities are faced with an awkward diplomatic problem in the form of the presence of the ship Kerkyra, manned

by a second: lieutenant and four rebel seamen placed aboard by the cruiser Averoff. She arrived at Alexandria in quest of provisions for the insurgents in Crete, and the Greek Minister requested the authorities to arrest her crew as pirates, which would necessitate handing them over to the Greek Consul, with incalculable results, as the influential Greek colony at Alexandria is overwhelmingly in favour of M. Venizelos. The Egyptian Government, anxious to avoid trouble, ordered the Kerkyra to depart at noon without cargo. The crew, doubting the chances of success of the revolt, refused to leave.