RISING IN GREECE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9698, 1 November 1909, Page 5

RISING IN GREECE.

MUTINY OF OFFICERS

Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright. {Received Last Night, at 5.5 p.m.) ATHENS, Yesterday.

There has been a sensational developznent in connection with the Greek

■crisis

Lieutenant Typaldos, commander of a flotilla of torpedo boats and submarines, acting on behalf of the junior naval offlceis, refused the Government's concessions recently cabled, and with twenty officers aud three hundred men seized the naval powder magazines upon the island of Leroskyra. They then boarded four destroyers and the cruiser Camiris aud lay in the Straits of Salainis.

The Government sent field batteries, which bombarded the mutinous vessesls minutes from the heights oSffisacramauga.

Loyal warships on the opposite side of the channel also shelled the rebels, who replied. Finally Typaldos' force took refuge behind the headland, when a shell r -truck the rebel destroyer Spheudone. Typaldos took a prominent part in the August revolt. Hence he gained support. Athens is quiet, but greatly excited. The military league's prestige has suffered, and they may be compelled to proclaim a dictatorship. The Government state that they are determined to suppress the outbreak by force. ATHENS, Last Night. After the fight the rebels were obliged to beach the Spheudone. The sailors and petty officers lauded and surrendered, while Typaldos and the other officers escaped aboard the destroyer Meles and landed in mufti blfpfcen' Eleusis and Megara, and have not yet been captured.

The fire of the rebels in the sea fight killed two loyalists and wounded several others.

Three rebel stokers • aboard the -Sphendone were killed. Other rebels wounded included the captain of the Sphendone.

The Military League, being satisfied with its own concessions, joined the Government and helped to suppress the naval outbreak.

The King was willing to concede some of the demands, but when Typaldos claimed himself to be Minister for Marine, the King urged resistance to his demand.

The i-evolt at no time threatened to become popular. The rising rather resembled the famous Potemkiu

mutiny in Russia