REVOLT IN GREECE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 August 1926, Page 7

REVOLT IN GREECE.

KONDILIS TAKES CHARGE

A NEW GOVERNMENT

DICTATOR S ARREST ORDERED

'By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyri^at.) (Received 12 noon.) ATHENS, August 22. A bloodless revolution is in progress. General Kondilis is master of the situation, and has arrested the War Minister, General Thertolis. and ordered the arrest of the dictator. President Pangalos. The insurgents have occupied the telegraph otßce and all military establishments. All the army officers have placed themselves at the disposal of the new Government, the personnel of which General Kondilis. who holds anti-Bolshevist views, promises in a proclamation will be selected on national lines, under the Presidency of M. Kondouriotis. President Pangalos is at present at the Island of Spezzia. Kondilis carried out the coup with the aid of the Athens garrison. He explains that the revolution aims at the destruction of Pangalos" tyranny. The !lo''t and army support Kondilis. A warship has gone to Spezzia to arrest Pangalos. Athens is calm.— ißeuter.) ARREST OF PANGALOS. A BRIEF STRUGGLE. MALADMINISTRATION CHARGE (.Received 1.30 p.m.) ATHENS, August 22. Warships have arrived in Spezzia Harbour and Pangalos has been arrested. The Dictator at tirst resisted, but after a struggle, he capitulated on his captors' terms. He will be tried on charges of maladministration. His wife escaped.

General Kondilis promises that elections will be hold 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 to his Press embargo, enabling Kondilis to prepare an unexpected coup from concealment, whither he escaped when his co-conspira-tors were recently arrested and imprisoned on a charge of inflaming the troops. Proclamations have been posted up in Athens asking the populace to celebrate their deliverance from fourteen months' tyranny.

One of Pangalos' last official acts was to issue a decree threatening heavy fines and imprisonment for anyone praisins or blaminpr royalties or politicians, living or dead, since 1900.—(A. and N.Z.)

NAVAL FIGHT ANNOUNCED. (Received 3 p.m.) LONDON, August 22. The "Times" correspondent in Athens states that Kilkis and Leon, assisted by a seaplane squadron, are reported to have engaged the Pergamos. whose commander is sympathetic towards the Pangalos' cause, and the destroyer flotilla, commanded by Captain Kolialexis, who is unwilling to recognise the revolution. ("Times.")