POPULAR VICTORY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 14 March 1935, Page 9

POPULAR VICTORY

END OF GREEK REVOLT General Condylis Cheered VENIZELOS ANNIHILATED By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright. (Received March 13, 11.15 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 on both sides of 10 dead and 9o wounded. M. Venv zelog is annihilated as a political entity and his closest friends are ruined. The end came when a tele i gram 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 au interview M. Venizolos has given to a French journalist m Cannes, in which the ex-Premier said “I have definitely retired from politics for ever.” M. Venizeios took a large sum of money. The censorship is already lifted. It is expected that there will oe r. general election in the near future at which au overwhelming vote in favour of the Government is assured. If he cared General Condylis might assume the mantle of dictator. When M. Tsaldaris, the Premier, appeared on the balcony of the ex-I’re mier’s house and demanded the death penalty for the arrested rebel leaders the crowd endorsed the demand with prolonged cheering. The "Daily Mail’s” Rhodes correspondent says: Before his departure M. I Venizeios testified to his bitter disappointment at the failure of the revolt and declared: I am finished with polities. Greece will never see me again. My only wish was to unite Greece and Crete in enduring friendship with the highest level of prestige. I did not promote the revolution, but it was the only hope of achieving the great future I dreamed for I Greece. 1 hope to take refuge with friends in France or England. The "Daily Mail’s” Rome corres pondent says that the Italian authorities interned M. Venizeios and party but they will probably be liberated after the establishment of identity and their complying with other for malities as Italy does not usually ex tradite political prisoners. When General Condylis, the hero of the victorious drive against the Macedonian rebels, returned to Athens the citizens greeted him with delirious enthusiasm and his laurel-bedecked car moved slowly through the dense throng whose cheers were punctuated by the reports of rifles and revolvers fixed by soldiers as a feu de joie. The British United Press Athens cor respondent says that the Government has asked Bulgaria to extradite General Kamenos and his staff on the ground that they are not political refugees but the possessors of stolen money. It, is alleged in Athens that the rebel officers seized a total of £600,000 from banks in the area they controlled for a week. Mme. Venizeios is alleged to have paid £300,000 to officers of tho Helle to support the revolt. REBELS IN SEARCH OF FOOD LONDON, March 13. "The limes” Cairo correspondent says: The Egyptian authorities are faced with an awkward diplomatic problem with the presence of the Kerkyra, manned by a second 'ieutenant and four rebel seamen placed aboard her by the Averoff. She arrived at Alexandria in quest of provisions for the insurgents in Crete. The Greek Minister requested the authorities to arrest the crew as pirates, necessitating handing them over to the Greek Consul. This would have incalculable results, as the influential Greek colony at Alexandria is overwhelmingly in favour of M. Venizeios. The Egyptian Government is anxious to avoid trouble and has ordered the Kerkyra to depart at noon without cargo. The crew, doubting the chances of the rebels, have refused to leave. - ——