REVOLT IN GREECE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 167, 12 April 1926, Page 7

REVOLT IN GREECE

* QUICKLY SUPPRESSED MUTINY LED BY ARMY OFFICERS RINGLEADERS TO BE COURT-MARTIALLED There has been another revolt in Greece, but the authorities took prompt steps and quickly suppressed the rising, which was led by three military officers. The ringleaders have been sent to Athens to be court-martialleU. By Telegrai'h. —Pr.Ess Association. Copyright. (Rec. April 11, 5.5 p.m.) Athens, April 9. The wires were set buzzing with naval and military orders throughout the country on receipt of news* of an outbreak at midnight. Troops from Athens were immediately entrained to Salonika, and other garrisons were instructed to be prepared. The fleet sailed at- 5 o’clock in the morning with orders to shell the insurgents if- necessary. All the malcontents later surrendered, and the ringleaders were dispatched to Athens for court-martial. A communique says: The insurgents do not exceed four ’hundred. Officers are reported to have declared that the movenient did not aim at the Government, but at the heads of the army at Salonika.—Reuter. ■London, April 9. Advices from Athens state that. 'Majors Bakirdji, Karakoufa, and* Zefas led the mutiny. A small number of troops occupied Karabournu Gulf and Salonika. Karabournu was surrounded and the fleet ordered to Salonika. It was subsequently announced that the mutineers had surrendered. The Greek censorship prevented an accurate appraisement of the situation, which, however, is reflected in the latest .mails, anticipating excitement on the occasion of the presidential election, alleging that Plastiras, who was the leader of the revolution in 1922, and last year, was expelled from the country, had clandestinely recrossed the frontier. Crediting him with engineering a seditious movement at the end of March, the Government offered a reward of half a million drachmae for the arrest of Plastiras, but apparently the latter lived up to his reputation for elusiveness.—Reuter. ...