A GREEK MUSSOLINI

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 674, 5 January 1926, Page 5

A GREEK MUSSOLINI

BANQUET ANNOUNCEMENT PAR LI AMENTARY GOVERNME NT ABUSED reliance; on armed forces By Telegraph—Press Ass.-— Copyright (Anst. ancl N.Z. Cable). Athens, Jan. 4. Oeneral Pangalos announced his Dictatorship at tlie banquet of the Ibepnblican Guards. In the presence of the Premier, three oilier Ministers,, when he made the announcement, to the company, jumped to their feet and tried, “Long live the .Dictator!’’ Alter the speech, fiii.anls.men paraded the streets ol* Athens, accliii ruing: tlie Dictator-.

Oeneral Pangalos declared: “Parliamentary . Govern ment is the cause of all our troubles, 1 aim at the end of my patience with politicians who lose no occasion to make trouble for their country. Our fleet in a lew months will lie .mistress of tlie Basin, of the Eastern: Mediterranean: and our Arniv one of tlie strongest in the Balkans . For the realisation of our programme wo shall rely solely on mu' armed forces.”

THE FIRM HAND PRiKV lOFS A'O)T.I.\tITTKS London, Jan. 4. Tlie Daily Mail’s correspondent recalls that General Pangalos was president of tlie court-juartial in 1922 which ordered tlie execution of M. Gournaris and other Ministers. During the Premiership his methods have been’ those of a dictator. He suppressed 1 the liberty of the press and freedom of speech and filled posts in the State Army with, his own friends. He dissolved the Assembly because it criticised his Government. Recently there has been much, speculation regarding tlie possibility of the ex-Klim returning to the Throne.

SENATE ELECTIONS CAP'SE OF POSTPONEMENT Athens Jan. 4. It is officialv explained that the postponement of the Senate elections sine dip is due to certain party leaders persisting in giving them a political complexion, which would thus defeat Kie Government’s object in obtaining a cessation of tlie increasing political tension.