PAGINA SEIS PRENSA LIBRE Jueves, de Julio de 1956 Cyprus Isle of Terror Chronicler Learns of Mysterious Underground Leader CAPTURE PHOTO OF CYPRIOT CHIEF BULLETINS This is the 5th of seven articles Troodos Mountains which rise up dier gone wrong. commenta lived to tell about it. The defec.
by the Chief INS Mid East Cor to 6, 400 foot majestic Mount Olym: tor for the official Cyprus Broad tive charge, planted in the GovTespondent about the tragic sit pus in NW Cyprus.
casting Co. has suggested that he ernor bed, was dicovered by the uation on the Island of Cyprus. Honeycombed throughout these may be mad.
housekeeper a few minutes after mountains are 10, 000 natural But there is no denying that Harding arose.
By CHARLES ARNOT caves. There also is captured ev(1) he has chosen a popular cause idence that Digenis and his top among the Greek Cypriots Un.
TOMORROW: staff have burrowed out their ion with Greece, and (2) that he Two Versions Neutrality NICOSIA, Cyprus, INS. own caves, with corrugated iron is an old master in the art of Washington and Moscow The gossip loving Greek Cypriots roofs, wall boarded rooms and guerrilla warfare.
have never been known to keep tiny, well camouflaged entrances, It was Grivas who organized a secret but they won tattle less than a yard square.
and headed the deadly rightwing on Digenis.
British Intelligence officers esGreek Chi Underground which The very name strikes either timate the hard core of EOKA was feared more than any other terror or Pro Greek fervor in their is probably 50, not more than 100 opposition by the Communists in Jordan Mans Frontier hearts sometimes both.
men, with Grivas as Commanding the battle for Greece after the It pronounced Dee yen ees General. They say there is evidGerman withdrawal. He is un.
CAIRO, An Egyptian news (Borrowed from a Greek hero of ence that the Underground leadderstood still to hate the Com service this morning quoted a the Middle Ages. Every Cypriot ership is extremely well organ.
Jordan military spokesman sayschoolboy knows it the Under ized, but claim to have found applauding his Anti British 50 ing that Jordanian troops have ground name of The Chief of the indications that discipline recentKA Campaign on Cyprus, been ordered to man the fron.
rightwing movement which calls ly has been lagging.
Reward posters plastered across tier between Jordan and Israel.
itself the Nat Organization of The British have figured out the island show a steely eyed man Cypriot Fighters, better known that the EOKA High Command of medium height with large low General Strike in Algiers by its initials EOKA operates through three main subset ears, bushy eyebrows, balding His bloody crusade of violence divisions: chestnut hair and a Hitlerian ALGIERS, Algerian Nationaims for only one target: to lead The Assassination Group.
moustache above a wide mouth alists have called for a general Cyprus to Enosis (Union with this, they say, is the small echeland square jaw, strike today in Algiers and addGreece) by driving out the Briton of cold blooded killers who Before Cyprus, Grivas made ed a threat that anyone venturish in a relentless campaign of shoot down British soldiers and few headlines. He was once con ng into the streets would be guerrilla war.
Greek Cypriots suspected of insidered a brilliant young Greek The British insist Digenis is forming or disloyalty. The bulk Army officer and fought gallant USAF Chief Back Home Col. George Grivas, 58, a Cyprus of the killings are believed to be ly in the 1940 Albanan Campaign.
born, British trained ex Greek the work of one man.
Grivas, described as a Master! WASHINGTON, USAF Chief Army officer. Their Intelligence Town Village Group. The at Disguise, is believed to mas. Gen. Twining was back in Wash officers are so certain that the High Command has appointed a querade at times as an Orthodoxington today, after an day visit Governor Commander in Chief leader in each village or town.
priest, beard and all. The British to Moscow with members of his of the Island, Field Marshal Sir These are key men at the local say he still has plenty of disguis staff, reporting to Pres. EisenJohn Harding, has posted a 30, 000 level numbering probably 200.
es and food, but they figure he hower and his advisers on what reward for information leading Then there the School may be running short of weap was seen in Russia. Earlier, the to Grivas capture.
Group or what the British call Whoever he is, Digenis has be the nuisance group. They or ons considering their recent seiz. General had told newsmen: We COL. GEORGE GRIVAS, reputed chieftain of Greek rebels on the island ures 30 tons in two months. did not see everything we wanted come anathema to the British, ganize school children, frequently of Cyprus, relaxes (center) with comrades at a hideout. This photo The British say they are al to see.
Since he launched the EOKA girls, for starting and leading Anwas reportedly discovered by the British among the belongings of an most certain that no arms have Campaign on April 1, 1955, by ti British demonstrations, extremist captured in the mountains. Tension on the island continues reached EOKA from the outside Anti Trust Suit Hits GM fanning his agents out across the The EOKA leaders maintain as all Greek Cypriot bars and public resorts in Nicosia and seven for several months.
Island to attack British official contact with their agents by com surrounding villages were closed by the British in retaliation for the But Digenis Grivas still retains WASHINGTON, US Atty.
buildings and troop, positions with ing down from the hills at night. wounding of Judge Bernhard Shaw by two gunmen. Shaw sentenced what the British call his biggest lliti 100 bombs, Digenis Co. have Officially, the British describe seven Cypriot rebels to the gallows. International Radiophoto)
weapons. threat and intimidalitical implications were involved cost the British Gov millions. the EOKA leaders as not bril tion. He has issued almost weekin the civil Anti Trust action anHow many millions, the British liant, but cunning. Unofficially, ly death threats to Gov. Com nounced yesterday by the Gov ire not prepared to say they call them against General Motors, GM was cowards. Not from behind. Every DOKA assas crets to themselves. Reported one mander in Chief Harding.
For 14 months, the British have once, they say, have the Cypriots sination victim, they say, has been Greek Cypriot, for 40 years a lead. But to suggestions that the EOcharged with monopolistic pracfound fighting Digenis and his dared to come out and fight a killed in the back.
ing figure in Island affairs: No KA Chief may be getting despertices in the manufacture of buses.
men like trying to capture a pitched battle, Defense Sec y Wilson, before The best estimates vary be body but Digenis knows all about ate in view of the British crackthost or grab a handful of quick But the thing that rankles thetween 500 and 000 on the num. BOKA not even those who are down and plotting something accepting the Cabinet post, was Hilver. They are pretty certain British most of all is the EOKA ber of what the British call Ac Terrorists themselves. It so well spectacular, Harding replies: Chairman of the Board of GM.
he maintains headquarters in the pattern of shooting their victims tive Terrorists aside from the organized in tight little Cells that We are not worried. We re High Command and the occasion. no member of one Cell will know ready for whatever Grivas might TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY al bomb thrower recruited from more than three others in the try.
the street corner.
entire EOKA operation.
Those are the words of a man Central Plateau (San José)
Whatever the number, they As for Grivas, the British call who on March 23 sleep eight HIGH 77. F. at 12:00 Noon have managed to keep EOKA se him the sad story of a good sol. hours on a terrorst bomb and! LOW 58. F. at 6:00 The only direct flight to the Pre Session Pot Shots Taken at Each Other Outline Crisis to Confront British Prime Ministers at Commonwealth Conference Fly direct to the in the modern and swift Super Convair 340.
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Rapid conections to New York, Washington, Chicago and other cities of the LACS By JOHN CRIDER Aside from the fact that this is for freedom and economic self Looking into the future with the first Commonwealth Confer sufficiency, bad times were ahead. such words ringing in one ears LONDON, INS. Even be ence since Russian Communism for all.
it was only possible to wonder fore the opening session of the took its tum away from Stalin The second speech was by what effect Western suport or current Conference of Common ism, there were two other com Strydom, Prime Minister of So, repudiation of such attitudes wealth Ministers, the pot shotspelling reasons why Cold War Africa, speaking before the so, might have upon the forthcomtaken at each other by the Min. strategy was bound to have a African Club of London, in which ing relations of white men and isters themselves had outlined weighty place on the agenda. he defended Apartheid, the So. colored all over the world.
the crisis which confronts this One was the mere presence of African policy of black supression At worst, it seemed, there could world wide organization of na: Premier Nehru of India, outstand and gegregation, as passionately be a global racial war; at best, a tions, ing symbol of Asian Neutralism, as a gentleman of the US Old Commonwealth of man, More than this, the sharpest dif who wants his Commonwealth South would have defended ferences between member States colleagues to put Russia ex white supremacy and States sketched the two basic issues pressed good intentions to the Rights.
which divide the world already fest.
He asked his audience if the and may divide it even more dan The other was the fact that British would be prepared to gerously in the future. They are: several of the conferees had with commit race suicide and posed Attitudes towards the Com in recent time talked firsthand the question what the British munist bloc.
with Russia new leaders. would do if, on these Islands, they CARTELERA CINEMATOGRAFKA PARA HOY. Race.
In addition to Nehru himself, were outnumbered three to one Differences as to Communism these included Prime Minister by colored people, PALACE are familiar though monetheless Eden of Britain, and Lester We in So. Africa, he said, IDEAL dangerous. It is recognized that Pearson, Canadian Minister for have been settled there for more 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea they become the more dangerous External Affairs.
than 300 years. So. Africa is our VARIEDADES as the Commonwealth confronts But no matter how much they one and only Fatherland. We can. COLISEO the monster of Communism in its talked, it Stalked, it was at once apparent not return to Holland or Britain.
COLON new lamb clothing talking more could be no unanim We and our descendants must re.
CASANOVA BIG NIGHT than ever of peace, and even makous opinion regarding World main in So. Africa either to live ing gestures of disarmament to communism between men like and survive or to lose our identi MODERNO suggest good faith.
Nehru, who want to tolerate and ty.
THE GREATEST LOVE The British hosts of the Con.
encourage what they believe to He added that they were preference expected at the outset the outset be its good intentions, and those pared to fight unto the last man ARANJUEZ that discussions of Communism Nike Een who want to fight it for the Nike Eden who want to fight it for the life and preservation of DRIVE a CROOKED ROAD New Lood and the Soviet Union with ideas and commerce while your race, new military posture would have standing militarily on guard.
priority of discussion during the much deeper sore in the Com 10 day Conference.
monwealth side, however, is the And there was no disguising question of Race. While the efthe wishful thinking of the confects of Cold War differences are ferees as they contemplated how clearly apparent on a gloal scale, nice it would be to spend less the full meaning for the future of money on burdensome defense.
the growing split between white men and colored men has yet to be learned.
Two speeches by Commonwealth Ministers on the eve of the Conference were sufficient to e11 the dimensions of this racial problem.
They clearly suggested that in the mating is a world wide civil war unless men of all colors can turn fears into affection and rivalries into cooperation.
The first of the two meaningful speeches was that of Premier Ali of Pakistan before the For.
eign Press Ass in which he is.
sued what amounted to a threat to the Caucasian peoples of the world.
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