GREEK REVOLUTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18674, 2 October 1922, Page 5

GREEK REVOLUTION

TROOPS ENTER ATHENS. ATHENS, September 29. The revolutionary colonels (Plastiras and Gonatas) entered the capital at the head of their troops, and were enthusiastically received. —Reuter. CONSTANTINE ORDERED TO LEAVE GREECE. ■ PRO-ALLY CABINET TO BE FORMED. REINFORCING THE THRACIAN FRONT. ATHENS, September 29. The Revolutionary Committee is forming a pro-ally Cabinet, and has ordered Constantine, Sophia, and the Princes Nicholas and Andrew to leave Greece immediately. Venizelos has been invited to represent Greece at the Allied councils. The revolutionary leaders have issued a manifesto insisting on the “completely national character of the movement. ' The army, victorious for 10 years, capnot blame itself for its recent misfortunes. A heavy responsibility for its disasters rests upon others, and the national movement is a legitimate explosion, due to a desire to repair the. issue as far as is humanly possible. The settlement is a dynastic question, but the foreign policy and internal affairs must be assured bv legislative enactment. Meanwhile we shall work to reinforce, the Thracian front.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. GREEK EX-MINISTERS ARRESTED. LONDON, (September 29. The Foreign Office has been advised from Athens that live cx Ministers—MM. Gounaris, Strains, Protopadakis, Goudas, and Treotokis—have been arrested, charged with being responsible for the defeat in Asia Minor. —A. and N.Z. Cable. ANTI-DYNASTIC MOVEMENT PARIS, September 29. The Petit Parisian states that M. Pangalos is known to have strong anti-dynastic leanings and that if lie is supported it is not impossible that the revolutionaries may effect a change in the Constitution in the direction of a republic. M. Venizelos arrived incognito. Interviewed, he said: “I shall not return to Greece until the present Unable is over, so that nobody mav sav I had a hand in it.” —A. and N.Z. Cable. TEMPORARY CABINET FORMED. ATHENS, September 30. (Received Get. 2, at 0.20 a.m.) M. Alexandre Carapanos lias established a temporary Cabinet until M. Zaimis can be recalled”from Vienna to assume office. Members of the Revolutionary Committee have arrived. They were cheered through the streets by crowds delirious with excitement. —A and M 7 r ' l Ke THE LOCAL RESPONSE. One nurse and one V.A.D. enlisted at the Kensington Recruiting Office on Saturday morning. This brings the total up to the present to 932,