TERRORISM IN CYPRUS
(Rec. 10 p.m.) NICOSIA, June 25. Masked terrorists raided the police station at Kouklia, 10 miles east of Paphos, early today. Police said they fired three rifle shots at the raiders, who then fled. During the night—the fifth of antiBritish terrorist attacks in the troubled island colony—police in Paphos arrested five persons, including a young student carrying a violin case which contained a sub machine-gun. Four Greek Cypriots, including Charalambous Mouskos, a cousin of Archbishop Makarios. leader of the enosis movement for union with Greece were charged in Nicosia today with preparing to procure an alteration of the Cyprus Government by force. They were remanded in custody. M.P. Resigns.—Dr. Bernard Friedman, a United Party Opposition member. resigned his Parliamentary seat yesterday to fight a by-election over his party’s policy on coloured voters of mixed race.—Cape Town, June 24.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27695, 27 June 1955, Page 11
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