209:Προς την Α. Μ. τον Βασιλέα, Προς τας ενόπλους δυνάμεις, Προς τον ελληνικό λαό, Στρατός και λαός αδελφωμένοι κατέλυσαν αρχάς λαομισήτου τυραννίας εκπροσωπούμενης υπό του στρατηγού Μεταξά. Ανακτήσας ελευθερίας αυτού απευθύνεται προς την Α. Μ. τον Βασιλέα και ζητεί την άμεσον απομάκρυνσιν της τυραννικής Κυβερνήσεως Μεταξά, την αποκατάστασιν του κράτους του νόμου και των λαϊκών ελευθεριών και τον σχηματισμόν Κυβερνήσεως Εθνικής Σωτηρίας εκ των αρίστων Ελλήνων, αδιακρίτως πολιτικών παρατάξεων, προς αντιμετώπισιν των αμεσοτάτων εσωτερικών και εξωτερικών κινδύνων, τους οποίους διατρέχει η χώρα μας και διά την δημιουργίαν μιας νέας Ελλάδος, πράγματι ηνωμένης ψυχικώς και ικανής να αντιμετωπίση με σθένος και φρόνησιν τας δυσκόλους στιγμάς, που διέρχεται η ανθρωπότης. Με αδελφικόν χαιρετισμόν προς τας ενόπλους δυνάμεις και ολόκληρον τον λαόν. Ζήτω Ο Βασιλεύς, ζήτω η Ελλάς.Η Επαναστατική Επιτροπή: Μητσοτάκης, Βολουδάκης, Μουντάκης, Παΐζης, Μάντακας στρατιωτικός διοικητής
107:, while others who participated in the coup, such as Konstantinos Rentis, Emmanouil Tsouderos et al. were arrested, convicted and deported. The next year though they were amnestied. General Emmanouil Mantakas was arrested after the failure of the coup and later freed by a group of armed fellow villagers, but was sentenced to life imprisonment. No death sentences were executed.
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