MARTIAL LAW
ATHENS PROCLAMATION
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES
CHAMBER DISSOLVED
(Received August 6, 10.45 a.m.),
ATHENS, August 5. With the King's approval martial law has been proclaimed by the Premier, General Metaxas, and the Chamber: of Deputies has besn dissolved.
The measures are attributed to the discovery, of a Communist plot. Another source says that they were necessary to counteract the calling of a general- strike. ..
-, An Athens journal states that an official, explaining the Government's action, declared that the country was faced wjth an abnormal situation, as it was on'the eve of ■ a seditious movement fostered by Communist propaganda. Aiming at disaffection in the army and the spreading of a spirit of anarchy, and at taking advantage of anarchy, squabbles, among political partie*. imd an unbridled Press campaign, '^.^^nmunists were preparing to i overthrow the social regime and break up Greek society, towards which the first step was to have been -the present strike. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 9
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MARTIAL LAW
Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 9
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