GREECE.
REACTIONARY PLOTTING
RELATED TO VENIZELOS SHOOTING.
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, /tuptrnlinn md N.Z. Cable l-.isn Received 9.30 p.m., Aug. 16th. ATHENS, Aug. 16.
Owing to rumours that M. Yenizelos was dead, great crowds attacked reactionary strongholds, and wrecked five newspaper offices, a theatre, and a cafe. The police arrested many reactionary leaders for complicity in a plot to effect a coup d'etat after IvlVenizclos's assassination and restore King Constantine. The Government states that it has proof that the opXwsition leaders are intriguing and plotting with Constantine in Switzerland. The plotters relied mainiy on 1200 ex-officers who Mere congregated in Athens, and the absence of the garrison on foreign service. M. Dragoumis was shot while attempting to escape from his military escort.
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Timaru Herald, Issue 170298, 17 August 1920, Page 7
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