Gen. Metaxas Sets Up Full Dictatorship A Athens, Jan. 29.
Fifteen party leaders, including three officers, who were arrested and deported recently to a remote island after the discovery of "subversive activities and a plot to assassinate Gen. J. Metaxas, the Prime Minister of Greece," will be detained for one year, according to an official announcement to-day.
The arrests followed the proclamation by Greek Opposition leaders criticizing the Government's policy and calling on the people to join a movement for the recovery of their rights. The proclamation was considered of a nature likely to disturb public order.
All is quiet in Athens, where Gen Metaxas is reported to have proclaimed an absolute dictatorship in Greece a few days ago.
Among those who will have to spend a year in the unnamed remote island are M. Empolis, Liberal leader; M. Theodokis, chief of the Monarchist National Party; M. Kathandaris, chief of the Progressive Party, and M. Michalokopulos, chief of the Independent Republic Party.—Reuter.
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