TIRED OF REVOLUTIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 847, 26 October 1923, Page 6

TIRED OF REVOLUTIONS.

(The following appeared In our Second Edition of yesterday.

WHAT THE GREEKS WANT, LOOKING FORWARD TO PEACE. By : Electric Telegraph.--Copyright. Received October 25, 10.io a.iu. ■ • LONDON, Oct. 24. •The .Times’s Athens correspondent jays that all the indications point to the Government having the situation well in hand. It is generally believed that the movement was planned by Royalist officers on the retired list and others having a grudge against the revolutionaries in conjunction with General Metaxa", who welcomed the opportunity to depose the revolutionaries and become master of the situation. General Plastiras gave information of the intended coup, but,no importance was attached to the result. General Metaxas and his lieutenants escaped before the news of the insurrection reached Athens. The movement found a most unfavourable atmosphere in Athens, where the people are tired of revolutions and are looking forward to the elections and a long period or peace and public order. The city was not disturbed. The hanks, shops, and offices are doing business normally. The cafes and cinemas are crowded as usual.—Times. COLLAPSE OF MOVEMENT. Received October 25, 9.30 a.m. ' / •; ' ; ATHENS, Oct. 24. A general collapse of the counter revolution seems imminent. Numerous arrests and surrenders are reported. General Plastiras has issued a statement in which he says he considers the movement in Macedonia has ended and expresses the opinion that the same will be the case in Peloponessus within a day or two.—Reuter.