MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
General Plastiras Would Not Return Without Full Power ULTIMATUM TO REBELS PAYMASTER FATALLY SHOT (United tret* /uwociatlon—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 1 p.m. to-day. ATHENS, March 3. Arsenal Paymaster Siochos was fatally wounded when presenting an ultimatum to the rebels at the Evzones barracks. He was buried without demonstration in the presence of a largo crowd. General Plastiras, in an interview at Cannes, declared that the present rulers of Greece were more unpopular than ever.
“There is a complete rupture in the Government which is really monarchical and Republican,” he said. will not return to Greece, except with the full authority and at the invitation of the people. I shall never accept office with M. Venizelos. “I am a great friend of Venizelos, but we do, not see things the same way. He is a Parliamentarian and 1 am a soldier. I wish to establish a democratic military dictatorship.”
The police discovered hand grenades and rifle ammunition in MVenizelos’ house.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 March 1935, Page 5
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162MILITARY DICTATORSHIP Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 March 1935, Page 5
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