DICTATORSHIP FOR GREECE.
WILL RELY ON ARMED FORCES. PANGALOS TIRED OF POLITICAL TURMOIL. , (Received Monday, 7.5 p.m.) ATHENS, Jan. 4.—M. Pangalos announced his dictatorship at a banquest to Republican guards in the presence of the Premier and three other Muisters. When he made the announcement the company jumped to their feet and cried “Long Live the Dictator.” After a speech .the guardsmen paraded the streets of Athens acclaiming Pangalos. Interviewed by the “Daily Express’s” Athens correspondent M. Pangalos declared that “the Parliamentary Government is the cause of all our troubles. I am at the end of my patience with politicians who lose no occasion to make trouble for the country.! Our fleet in a few months will be mistress of the basin of the Eastern Mediterranean and our army one of the strongest in the Balkans. For the realisation of our programme we shall rely solely on our ante', forces.”—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 5 January 1926, Page 5
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