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MORE DISTURBANCES IN ATHENS. ATHENS, August 16. Owing to rumours that Venizelos was dead, great crowds attacked reactionary strongholds and wrecked five newspaper offices, a theatre and a cafe. The police arrested many reactionary leaders, some for their own protection, others for complicity in a plot to effect a coup d’etat after Yeizelos’ assassination, and restore ex-King Constantine. The Government states that it has proof that opposition leaders are intriguing and plotting with Constantine in Switzerland. The plotters relied mainly on 12-00 ex-officers, wffio are at present congregated in Athens, and the absence of the garrison on foreign service. Dragounes, was shot while attempting to escape from a military escort.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160730, 17 August 1920, Page 2
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112EXCITABLE GREERS Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160730, 17 August 1920, Page 2
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