CIVIL WAR
GREEK OUTBREAK Virtually Dissolves Lebanon Agreement N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON. June-2S. Civil war has again broken out in Greece, according to reports received from the Middle East. Sporadic fighting is going on between the powerful numerically superior National Liberation Army and the smaller strongly monarchist band under Colonel Zervas. Both sides :laim that hostilities were started by the otherThe outbreak has virtually dissolved the agreement between the Sreek political forces arrived at by he recent Lebanon Conference. The dissolution of the agreement has seen hastened by the clandestine ;ourts-martial in Cairo, at which officers and soldiers of the Greek Army and sailors of the Greek Navy ire being tried for incidents which jeeurred before the Lebanon meetngs. The stronglv-backed liberation novement inside Greece has turned town an offer of Ministerial posts n the Greek Government in exile, >f which M. Papandreou is Premier.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 152, 29 June 1944, Page 5
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