IN A DILEMMA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22743, 2 December 1935, Page 10

IN A DILEMMA

THE KING OF GREECE AMNESTY FOR REBELS (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, November 30. (Received Dec. 1, at 8 p.m.) The Times Athens correspondent says the King is in an extraordinary dilemma between M. Kondylis and the Assembly, while masses of the people who were recently resentful of or indifferent to , restoration are recalling his Majesty’s undertaking to forget the past and rule as King of all the Greeks, and are sympathetically watching the efforts to secure an amnesty for the March rebels and to form a business Ministry whicfl will bold free elections. Nevertheless, newlycommissioned or promoted officers oppose the reinstatement of their cashiered predecessors, while General Repas, the Air Force chief, who presided at the court martial which ordered the execution of the octogenarian General Papoulos, is reported to be apprehensive of Papoulos’s exiled son, who is threatening vengeance, which is not an isolated case. Moreover, General Papagos suggested that returning officers should be required to live in specified localities. EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT ATHENS, November 30. (Received Dec. 1, at 9 p.m.) M. . Demardjis lias completed the Emergency Government, in which he has not included professional politicians. The first act after the swearing-in ceremony was to announce that an amnesty for all political offenders, accompanied by the restoration of property in the majority of cases, unless obtained irregularly, would be issued on December 2. The leaders, including M. Vcnizelos and

General Plastiras, although granted an amnesty, will not recover their property, and officers will not be reinstated in the army, thus placating the anti-Venezelists. M. Kondylis declares himself satisfied with the King’s attitude. M. Demardjis’s programme includes free elections," Budget economies, strengthening the defences, fidelity to international agreements, adhesion to the Balkan Entente, and friendship with all countries.