MUTINY IN GREECE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 9

MUTINY IN GREECE

RISING AT SALONIKA. TROUBLE SPEEDILY QUELLED. (Press Association— By T-legr.-ph—■Copyright.) LONDON, April 10. (Received April 11, at 5.5 p.m.) Advices from Athens state that Majors Bakirdji, Karakoufa and Zefas led a mutiny of a small number of troops, and occupied Karabournu in the Gulf of Salonika. Karabournu was surrounded and the fleet was ordered to Salinka. It was subsequently announced that the mutineers had surrendered. The Greek censorship prevented an accurate appraisement of the situation, which, however, is reflected in the latest mails. These anticipated excite ment on the occasion of the presidential election alleging that General Plastiras who was leader of the revolution in 1922 and was last year expelled from the country clandestinely had recrossed the frontier, and crediting him with engineering a seditious movement at the end of March. The Government offered a reward of 500,00 drachmae for he arrest of General Plastiras, but apparently the latter lived up to his reputation for elusivepess. The wires were set buzzing with naval and military orders throughout the country on receipt of the news of the outbreak. Troops from Athens were immediately entrained to Salonika and other garrisons were instructed to be prepared The fleet sailed at 5 o’clock in the morning with orders to shell the insurgents if necessary. All the malcontents later surrendered and the ringleaders were de spatohed to Athens for court-martial. A communique says that the insurgents do not exceed 400. The officers are reported to have declared that the movement did not aim at the Government, but at the heads of the army at Salonika.— Reuter.