GREEK AGITATION

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 259, 2 November 1931, Page 7

GREEK AGITATION

FREEDOM OF CYPRUS.

Appeal to Britain to Give Up

Control.

RETURN 'TO NATURAL MOTHER.'

[United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright)

(Received 1 p.m.) ATHENS, November 1. "We Want Only Justice," was inscribed on. a huge banner before the church at Maroussi on the occasion of a requiem for the victims of the rioting in Cyprus. Several thousands attended the service and various speakers urged that the powerful, magnanimous Britain should give Cyprus to her natural mother, Greece.,

The gathering adopted an appeal addressed to "The Civilised World/ , declaring that the orders sent from London to stifle by fire and steel the struggle in Cyprus for freedom must be revoked, and urging the League of Nations to intervene.

A committee was appointed to present an appeal to M. Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, and the Beads of the Greek 1 political parties and foreign embassies. ■ A great number from the fathering immediately set off to accompany ' the committee to the. legations. Other Greek bodies have passed a resolution demanding freedom for Cyprus.

CYPRUS BLOODSHED. AFTER-EFFECTS OF RIOTS, (Received 9.30 .a.m.) ■ LONDON, November 1. The Athens correspondent of the. "Daily Mail" reports that 15 insurgents were, killed and 50 wounded, mostly by machine gun fire, in the conflicts with the British troops,in Cyprus. • _ ; An Athens, dispatch saye that a committee of 40 members, including the former President, Mr. Kondouriotis, has issued a manifesto to. enlighten public opinion, which says:—"The noble and generous English nation will understand the rights of the Cypriotes. We trust, m the generosity of the English soul." M. Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, has forbidden requiems here for the dead in the Cyprus rioting. This is due to hints that sympathisers intend to demonstrate outside the- British Embassy.

HOME AT LAST. LIJTOBERG'rHS , STORMY TRAVELS NEW YORK, October 28. From Shanghai, Colonel Lindbergh and •his wife .started a hurried trip homeward following the death of Senator Morrow, Mrs. Lindbergh's father. , Crossing the Pacific, they had the stormiest voyage ever experienced by the commander of the steamer President Jefferson.

Landing in Victoria, British Columbia, during a gale, ihey climbed aboard a new 'piane s«nt by the makers to replace the one damaged in China. Through rain and fog they had battled their way across the continent, making 20.00 miles from Victoria to Omaha, .before night.

Then, taking off at daylight, they reached New York "in two jumps. A tyre burst on leaving the air port was {he only accident of the entire trip.