GAOL ONCE MORE.
EX-GREEK DICTATOR HAS LITTLE LIBERTY.
ITpltea Presn Assn by El. Tel. Copyright lAnstralinu Press Association.) ATHENS, Nov. ' 3. Thtj ex-dictator, General Pangalos. whose release from prison was one of the first acts of _M. Venizelos, hah again been, imprisoned on a charge of manslaughter, having fired from a balcony upon the. -jeering crowd on the eve of the. last elections. His release is expected pending the trial. ; , . - Having been imprisoned for 1 7 -months in a Cretan fortress, the exdictator of Greece, General Pangalos, on February IS last was brought -bey tore a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on six counts. . These charged. him with illegally proclaiming I himself a dictator on January. 4 1926; with holding an illegal election tor the Presidency in April, • 1926, when, he was elected ..gs -the ; sole candidate; ancF with" the .-arrest,. and . banishment'oF' prominent- citizens. Genera] Pangalos iirnnediatelv objected to the composition of the commission. He pointed out that it contained a member of the Cabinet which he had overturned, also a member who had acted as counsel for the men executed during his dictatorship. The commission. however, decided against him and he was sent back to exile, from which, he was released by AI. Venizelos after the recent elections.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10736, 6 November 1928, Page 6
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