RELIES ON THE ARMY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 3, 5 January 1926, Page 7

RELIES ON THE ARMY

IN TASK OF SAVING GREECE.

(rCBLUHED M THI T1H19.)

ATHENS, 3rd January. General Pangalos announced the military dictatorship at a banquet given by the Republican Guard in honour of himself and three other members of the Cabinet, but the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Navy were absent. Responding to a toast General Pangalos eulogised the army's action during the last decade. He declared;'"that the revolution iv 1909 was fruitless because the Parliamentary system had eausod the Greek power to wane. The revolution in 1934 was of ly a partial success. It failed to ensure healthy politics/From to-morrow I assume all responsibility for the country '* condition, and shall confidently rely on the armed forces to assist in my itask of caving Greece." <

General Pangalos will issue a communique on 4th January announcing the plans of the Government. In the meantime he has postponed the Senate elections.

The Republican Guard paraded the streets, acclaiming General Pangalos. The "Daily Mail" correspondent recalls that General Pangalos w»s the president of the court-martial in 1922 which ordered the execution of Gounaris and other Ministers. During his Premiership his methods have been those of a dictator. He suppressed the liberty of the Press and freedom of speech, and filled posts of State and the Army with his own. friends, and dissolved the Assembly because it criticised his government. Beccntly there has been much spculation regarding the possibility of tho former King returning to the throne.