FINE OF £lO

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20260, 8 November 1935, Page 10

FINE OF £lO

DRUNK IN MOTOR-CAR By Telegraph —Press Association DUNEDIN, November 7. The sentence of three weeks' imprisonment imposed on Gustave Neilson, in the Police Court, on Monday, for being intoxicated in charge of a car, was amended by Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.. after a rehearing this morning, Neilson being fined £lO. and prohibited from driving for 10 years. The Magistrate heard the evidence of Dr DeLatour as to the defendant’s disability through a war injury to the skull, making him abnormally sensitive to alcohol, but aid not accept the doctor’s view that Neilson was incapable of forming a judgment at the time he allowed another man, also intoxicated, to drive for him. His Worship held that Neilson was not in such a state of helplessness as to escape the charge of aiding and abetting an intoxicated person to drive car.

ITS LIFE IS EBBING REDS AS THE LAST HOPE Only former King George’s attitude to a restoration by force as undesirable and a popular referendum as necessary now holds suspended the death-blow to the Greek Republic and the creation of a constitutional monarchy, wirelessed George Weller to the “New York Times” on September 12. Greece’s swing to a monarchy began with the March revolution, prior to which royalism was only one among many forms that anti-Venizelism had taken in a nation dominated for a quarter-century by the personality of the cunning Cretan. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris and War Minister George Kondylis were avowed republicans. The former had slackened the royalist allegiance of the Populist Party in order to become Premier, and the latter had thrice defended the republic against overthrow in the Constantinist revolution of 1923, the Pangalist of 1926, and the Venizelist of 1935.

The March uprising, which Elutherios Venizelos consented to lead after it had been bungled by republican officers and which he cleverly explained as counter-monarchist after it had failed, marked the first pitfall upon the republic’s treacherous road. The second was reached in June, when Marshal Kondylis, in order to checkmate royalist agitation by the Constantinist former general, George Metaxas, declared himself in favour of a monarchy. A Third Blow The third was attained a few days ago when Marshal Kondylis forced Premier Tsaldaris to abandon his neutrol attitude and embrace the monarchist cause by a threat to use military force. The Royalists and Populists burst uninvited into a Cabinet meeting and gave the Premier a similar ultimatum. Premier Tsaldaris gave a monarchist message to the people a few hours after Marshal Kondylis’s aide. Lieutenant Loukides, with the writer as an eyewitness, ordered four soldiers to fire upon General Charilaos Panayotakos, commander of the Athens district and Mr Tsaldaris’s most trusted officer, when General Panayotakos resisted arrest on emerging from the Cabinet meeting. For the first time since it had been renovated as a parliament building, the former royal palace was marred by soldiers’ buttets and its marble was spattered with blood. General Panayotakos paid for arousing garrisons throughout the country against a monarchist coup and for defying Marshal Kondylis with a bullet-hole in his jaw and bayonet wounds on his nose and hip. His brother, a Populist republican, who tried to save General Panayotako’s life, was wounded on the wrist, and his hand was amputated the next day. Marshal Kondylis ordered General Panayotakos’s troops to return to their barracks, and the short-lived resistance to monarchist military leaders was ended.

Premier Tsaldaris and General Kondylis have made separate understandings with Prince Nicholas, former King George's uncle and the father of the Duchess of Kent, who is George’s chief negotiator and the closest link with the British and Yugoslav royal families . According to Athens reports, both have agreed with Nicholas that the utmost will be done to preserve order until the Cabinet holds the plebiscite, probably the last week in October. Should a republican uprising or Communist disorders make more pressure necessary than already has been applied by military leaders, Nicholas or George’s other uncle, Andrew, may be summoned to a regency, under which the plebiscite would be held. George willing. With President Alexander Zaimis, the only anti-Venizelist republican remaining in public office, discounted as a counter-monarchist prop because of his age, the republicans are depending on Greeks who have emigrated to other countries and on the Communists for the last stand in behalf of the republic. Emigrants like the republic because many associate with it the successes of Mr Venizelos’s foreign policy. The Communists, commanding 10 per cent, of the vote, chiefly among the workers, see the republic as the only hope to check the deportation of strike leaders.