DAY’S CURFEW ENDS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27928, 27 March 1956, Page 13

DAY’S CURFEW ENDS

Troops Patrol Towns

(Rec. 10 p.m.) NICOSIA, March 26. Cyprus’s “lost day” ended at 4 o’clock this morning when the island’s biggest curfew ended and people in major towns came out of doors for the first time in 24 hours. •

The curfew was imposed to thwart terrorist activities on Greece’s Independence Day—March 25. The day was one of the quietest since the terrorism began in support of the union with Greece campaign, but some isolated incidents were reported during the curfew.

Two masked men entered a coffee shop at Kilossi village, six miles west of Limassol, last night, lined up customers against the wall and shot and killed a Cypriot Turk. Officials did not think that the killing had any political significance. Terrorists at Paphos threw a bomb at a foot patrol. Bomb splinters injured a Cypriot woman in the neck and three persons were arrested.

Terrorists dodged troops and police to throw bombs at three police stations—in Polis, Tsadha and Ayios Epictetos. but no casualties or damage were reported. Fourteen British battalions patrolled the streets of Nicosia and 12 other towns to enforce the curfew.

The curfew will remain in effect in Lapithos and Vassilia. on the north coast.

Lapithos is the village where a £7OOO collective fine imposed after a terrorist bomb attack is now being raised. Vassilia was the scene of a clash last Monday between Turkish and Greek Cypriots.