NEW CYPRUS PROPOSALS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 28002, 23 June 1956, Page 9

NEW CYPRUS PROPOSALS

Statement Soon By Britain

(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. The Governor of Cyprus (Field Marshal Sir John Harding) will fly back to the island in the next few days to resume command of anti-terrorist operations. He has been in London for nearly three weeks discussing the colony’s future with the British Government. Simultaneously with his return, the British Government would tell Parliament about new proposals it had worked out to meet the Cyprus situation, authoritative sources said last night.

“The Times” said today: “There are many promising signs that the Government is planning another attempt to break the diplomatic deadlock in which Cyprus is gripped. It has been miserably slow, and it has years of fumbling behind it, but the moves are not less to be welcomed on that account.”

“The Times” listed the three main signs as: Sir John Harding’s imminent return to Cyprus after an “intensive reappraisal” with Ministers in London: the choice of Lord Radcliffe as constitutional architect for Cyprus; and General Sir Gerald Templer’s coming visit to Turkey. A British security forces patrol vehicle was damaged when terrorists hurled a bomb at it at midnight last night near Polis, 70 miles west of Nicosia. One suspect was arrested. The Authorities disclosed today that the victim of the shooting in Larnaca yesterday, previously described as a British serviceman, was a police sergeant, Reginald Tipple, who was seconded from the London Metropolitan force last march.

Seargeant Tipple was shot in the chest in the crowded Lanarca market place and died almost immediately. His widow and two young children live in London.