GREEK REVOLT OVER

Grey River Argus, 14 March 1935, Page 5

GREEK REVOLT OVER

ONLY TEN KILLED Government Going to Country VENIZELOS DONE FORCROWD FOR DEATH PEN ALT V. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received March 13 at 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, March 13. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Athens special correspondent. Sir Percival Phillips, reports: “Greece emerges from the revolution with a casualty list for both sides of ten dead and ninety ‘wounded. M. Venizelos has been annihilated as a political entity. Ilis closest friends are ruined The end came when a telegram was received that the rebel officers had abandoned the stolen (warships, the crews of which awaited the Government’s pleasure. The best joke of the crisis is published in an interview' which M. Venizelos has given to a French journalits at Canea. in which the cx-Premier said: ‘I have definitely retired from politics for ever!' Venizelos took a large sum of money. ’ ’

Sir P. Phillips “The censorship has already been lifted. It is expected that there ‘will be a general election in the near future, at which an overwhelming vote in favour of the Government is assured. If he cared, General Kondylis might assume the mantle of a dictator. “When M. Tsaldaris, the Premie’’, appeared bn the balcony of the exPremier's house, and demanded the death penalty for the arrested rebel leaders, the crowd endorsed the demand with prolonged cheers.”

CAPITAL EN FETE. ATHENS. March 12. The city is brilliantly en fete, owing to the national victory, involving the surrender of thousands of rebels, the majority of whose high officers fled abroad. The streets are crammed with people, singing patriotic songs. Trades Unions are parading with banners and bands. Crowds gathered at the residence of M. Tsaldaris. whose address was enthusiastically acclaimed.

The Mayor of Athens has called on the people to give thanks for the victory. at a mass meeting this afternoon.

The British pleasure cruiser. Letitia. arrived with 375 tourists. They were welcomed bv the British Minister, Waterlow, who assured them of their safety. Aircraft will resume flying over Greece on March 13. the Imperial Airwavs reverting to the original schedule. The sum of .€160.000, which was looted from the local banks, has been found on captured rebels THE ISLANDS. ATHENS. March 12. The revolt in Crete has ended, and Government authority is re-estab-lished in all the Aegean Islands, in- i eluding Mitylene, Sanios and Chios. M. Venizelos’ attempt to constitute a Government in Crete received little support. THE NAVY. ATHENS. March 12. All the rebel warships, except the Averoff and one submarine. surrendered to the Government at Tnsuda Bay. Officers from , the dost rovers Psara, Leon, and Nirens, previously hoarded the Averoff. which steamed away in a north-westerly direction, with Venizelos and his wife and a hundred rebel officers” aboard. Tt is reported the Averoff is on the \yay to Salamis arsenal to surrender, after landing Venizelos on the Italian island of Cassos. THE HERO OF THE CRISIS. (Received March 13 at 19 p.m.) ATHENS, -March 12. When General Kondylis, the hern of the victorious drive against the Macedonian rebels, returned to the capita'!, the citizens greeted him with delirious enthusiasm. His laurel-bedecked car moved slowlv through a dense throng, whose cheers wore punctuated by the reports of rifles and revolvers which wore fired by the soldiers as a feu dp join.

THE REBEL LEADERS. ATHENS. March 12. General Papoulos. ex-Cnmmander of the Anatolian rebels, has surrendered. General Anagnostopoulos, the Com mander at Sprres. fled in a motor boat with five officers. M. Kamonos will be interned at Karlovo, with his com pan ions. PARTS. March 12. General Plastiras is taking refuge in a village in the Department of Vor. under an assumed name. REBELS’ HUGE THEFTS. EXTRADITION ASKED. (Received March 13 at 9 p.m.) LONDON. March 13. The British United Press Athens correspondent says: The Greek Government has asked Bulgaria to extradite Kamenos and his staff, on the ground that they are not political refugees, hut are the possessors of stolen money. Tt is alleged here that the rebel officers seized a total of a thousand sterling from the hanks in the areas which thev controlled for a week. Madame Venizelos, it is alleged, paid three hundred thousand sterling to the officers of the cruiser “Helle” to support the revolt.

Venizalos Safe FROM EXTRADITION. ITALY’S POLICY. ATHENS. March 12. Tt is reported that the rebel cruiser Averoff landiVl M. Venizelos, his wife, and the rebel officers, on the Italian Island of Cassos, after which the Averoff proceeded to the Salamis Arsenal, near Athens, with the intention of surrendering. M. Venizelos will probably be to garded as a political refugee, as the result of which he may uni. lie handed over to Greece. LONDON. March 13.

The “Daily Mail’s” Rome correspondent says: The Italian authorities

have interned M. Venizelos and his party, but they probably will be liberated after the establishment of their identity, and after complying with other formalities, as Italy does not usually extradite political prisoners. NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN! VENIZELOS’ FLIGHT. LONDON, March 13. The “Daily Mail’s” Rhodes correspondent says: “Before his departure from Crete, M. Venizelos testified to his bitter disappointment at the failureof the revolt. He declared: “I am finished with politics. Greece will never see me again. My only wish was to unite Greece and Crete in enduring friendship on the highest level of prestige. I did not promote the revolution, but it was the only hope of achieving the great future that I had dreamed for Greece. I hope to take refuge with my friends in France and England. ’ ’

NEWSPAPER PLANE. SHOT DOWN TN CRETE. PARIS, March 12. “Le Soir” newspaper, in the hope of securing a scoop, dispatched an aeroplane to Crete, with a wireless operator and a woman reporter, who entered an urgent plea that the rebels should be instructed not to shoot. They, however, shot down the aeroplane at Canea, in mistake for a Government machine, the. pilot skilfully landing without injury to himself or passengers.

The reporter promptly wirelessed that the population had suffered little, and no blood was spilt. She added that the rebel leaders, prior to departing on the Averoff, looted the treasuries of Candia and Canea. This re j ceived an immediate official contradiction.

The woman reporter, Mademoiselle Titayana, actually secured an interview with M. Venizelos, aboard the Averoff, but the text of it is copyright.

APOLOGY TO ITALY. ROME, March 12. M. Tsaldaris has apologised to the Italian Minister, for the Greek warship shelling the Italian Consulate at Kavala.

The captain of the Italian steamer Sorelli Leoni discloses that the Government forces fired on her when leaving Salonica. A Greek mine-layer explained that this was a warning. The captain protested, and resumed his voyage.

Rebel Ship Ordered Away

FROM EGYPTIAN PORT. CREW REFUSE TO LEAVE. (Received March 13 at 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 13. “The Times’s” Cairo correspondent says: The Egyptian authorities are faced with an awkward dipiomatie problem with the presence of the ship “Kerkyra,” which is manned by a Greek rebel second lieutenant and four rebel seamen. They were placed aboard by the cruiser Averoff. The Kerkyra arrived at Alexandria in quest of provisions for the insurgents in Crete.

The Greek Minister has requested the authorities to arrest the crew as being pirates, this necessitating handing them over to the Greek Consul. This might have incalculable results, as there is an influential Greek colony in Alexandria who are overwhelmingly in favour of Venizelos. The Egyptian Government, being anxious to avoid trouble, ordered the. [Kerkyra to depart at. noon without any cargo.

However, the crew, doubting the revolters ’ chances, have refused to leave.