Washington County News | 1926-09-16 | Page 6 | Troops Make Brief Stand for Pangalos

Troops Make Brief Stand For Pangalos Athens, Serious fighting, with many casualties, took place in the outskirts out-skirts of the city Thursday between regular troops and two corps of Republican Re-publican guards supporting General Pangalos, the ousted dictator. These guard corps, which Pangalos had formed to insure his dictatorship, bad been ordered disbanded. Colonels Zervas- and Dertilis, in command of the corps, refused to obey and withdrew with-drew them, with three armored cars, to the outskirts of the city, at the terminus ter-minus of Kifissia boulevard. The government gov-ernment sent officers to demand their surrender before 11 o'clock in the morning, but the mutineers ignored the ultimatum and advanced along I the boulevard, intending to enter and occupy the city.