BODY FOUND IN CYPRUS

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28099, 15 October 1956, Page 11

BODY FOUND IN CYPRUS

Claim Of Terrorists Recalled

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) 'Rec .9 p.m.) NICOSIA, October 13. A body fopnd in Cyprus may be that of a British lance-corporal who disappeared from a camp near Kyrenia last December and was later reported to be held as a hostage by Eoka. the War Office announced. It is thought to be the body of Lance-Corporal Gordon Hill, a Royal Leicestershire Regiment soldier whom Eoka claimed to have hanged in May as a reprisal for the execution of terrorists. Last night an Army officer broke the news to the soldier’s parents that the body was thought to be that of their son. Lance-Corporal Hill, who vanished in December, was now definitely known to be dead, the “Daily Mail” said. An Army captain called on Hill's parents, at their home near Worksop last night and told them that one of the six Eoka terrorists who were captured on Thursday by paratroops had told them where Corporal Hill was buried. Troops had later recovered the body, the “Daily Mail” said. Nicosia’s Greek-Cypriot owned or managed places of entertainment, which were shut down by the authorities after the murder of two British police sergeants on September 28, will be allowed to open again from noon today, a Nicosia message says. Security forces elsewhere in Cyprus are pressing on with their hunt for anti-British terrorists. Aircraft yesterday dropped 250,000 leaflets calling on the people to “bring peace back to Cyprus,” by telling of terrorist hide-outs.