GRECIAN SENSATION
FAKING THE ELECTIONS. A PARLIAMENTARY UPROAR. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, February 15. The Athens correspondent of the Daily Express reports that sensational revelations were made in the Assembly when M. Sakellovopoulos, an ex-Minister, was charged with, having hired 300 peasants at last election to go to five different villages and vote with forged voting papers. Another member charged a supporter of M. Venizelbs with giving the papers of several hundred dead voters to refugees with instructions to vote in three different places. An uproar followed the revelations, the Republicans threatening to resign en bloc, failing an immediate vote for the overthrow of the dynasty.
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Southland Times, Issue 19173, 18 February 1924, Page 5
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106GRECIAN SENSATION Southland Times, Issue 19173, 18 February 1924, Page 5
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