VIOLENCE IN ATHENS.
BUILDINGS WRECKED. OUTCOME OF ATTACK ON M. VENIZELOS. Hu Cable. — rrrss Association. — Copyright. (A. A N.Z.t ATIIKNS, Auk. !<>.. Owing to rumours Iliiit M. Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, who was shot in Paris, was dead, great crowds attacked reactionary strong; holds in the city, and wrecked five newspaper offices, a theatre, and a cafe. The police arrested many reactionary leaders, some for their own orotection, and others for complicity in a plot to effect a coup d'etat after M. Yenizelos's assassination, and restoic King Constantine. The Government slates it has proof lhal the Opposition leaders are intiiguing and plotting with Constantine in Switzerland. The plotters relied mainly on 1200 ex-officers who are at present congregated in Athens, and the absence of the garrison on foreign service. M. Dragoumis, a.i ex-Prime Minister, was shot while attempting to escape from a military escort.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2030, 17 August 1920, Page 6
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144VIOLENCE IN ATHENS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2030, 17 August 1920, Page 6
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