Evening star., 1935-03-13
MASS EXECUTION
FEARED IN GREECE
Premier Hints Drastic Ac-
ton in Promise "RevoIt
Won't Be Repeated"

tcopyright. 1898. by the Associated Press D.,
ATHENS. March 13.-The possibil-
ity OF death before firing squad
faced more than 300 Greek rebels
today as the Government instituted
wholesale court martial for those i'm
plicated in the 1l-day revolt.
The belief that a mass execution
would mark the final chapter of the
uprising was widely held in Athens.
where it was recalled that similar
fate befell the leaders of Greece's S
last revolution.
Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris gave
cheering crowds before his home a
hint of the stern measures the gov
ernment might invoke to climax its
triumph.
Won't Be Repeated"
"The people of Greece" he said.
may be certain the law will be ex-
ecuted in such a way the present
generation will never again witness
the spectacle of these last days"
While his followers waited to learn
the penalty for disloyalty to the gov
ernment. Eleutherios Venizelos, leader
Of the rebellion, found Napoleonic
fate on the little Italian island of
Rhodes, rs miles from Cassos. from
government would not permit him to
be extradited.
To the haven of CaSsos yesterday
and Rhodes today, the 7l-year-old
former premier, the architect of mod
ern Greece and once potent dictator
Of the republic, fled on the rebel
flagship" Averoff with his partly
English wife and a group of his in
surgent associates.
Americans here are asking will
Venizelos, like Napoleon from Elba,
be able to stage a comeback, or will
he die as Napoleon did on a little
island, deprived of glory and honor?"
Career Seen Closed.
Most foreign observers regard the
career of the former idol of a section
of the Greek population as definitely
closed.
Others believe the man who led the
Grecian government during the World
War and collaborated closely with
Woodrow Wilson in framing the Yer
sailles treaty will await a more favor
able opportunity to retrieve his lost
power
Jubilant crowds, dancing and pa
rading in the streets of the Grecian
capital this morning. jeered when
there appeared on bulletin boards
statement attributed to Venizelos that
he has definitely retired from Greek
politics forever"
While Athens continued its celebra-
tions. the government set its losses In
the insurnction as II killed and %
wounded.
A crowd of 100000 cheered mad.y
when Gen. George Kondylis. trium-
phant commander of the loyalist
troops, appeared on balcony at the
home Of Premier Tsaldaris.
Monarchist Rumors.
twenty-five hundred years ago."
the general told the enthusiastic
throng, King Darius sent ambassa-
dors to Greece demanding submission.
They were thrown over a precipice.
The same insult was hurled by that
mailman VeniZeloS."
The capital buzzed with talk of the
possibility of a monarchist restora-
ton. Crowds cheered and thundered
"Zito"-Grecian exclamation of &C.
claim-when pictures OF the late King
Constantine appeared on the streets
and were circulated from hand to
hand.
venizelos abandoned all hope for
success of the revolution when he
learned the entire rebel feet, with the
exception of the Averoff, had been
abandoned by their officers and crews
in Sauda Bay and that Crete had
been captured by loyalist forces.
1t was understood the Government
will ask Bulgaria for the extradition
of Gen. Kamanos and the other rebels