TERRORISTS IN CYPRUS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28573, 30 April 1958, Page 13

TERRORISTS IN CYPRUS

Eoka Ultimatum (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NICOSIA, April 29. Armed British servicamen and police were patrolling the city today in face of a threatened island-wide wave of terror. An Eoka ultimatum to the Governor, Sir Hugh Foot, expired yesterday. / The terrorist organisation threatened to resume attacks on Britons' unless “inhuman measures” were stopped in British detention camps. Greek sectors in five of the island’s main towns have been put out of bounds to British troops, who have been ordered to carry arms when they are out. Last night a Government-own-ed school near Nicosia was set on fire. The police believed it to be the biggest sabotage fire for several months. At a village, in the south-west Cyprus mountains last night a Cypriot Greek was shot and seriously woilnded at his home by masked gunmen. The police said today that 11 Cypriots had been detained during island-wide swoops by security forces yesterday. Patrols and roadblocks were intensified throughout the island today. Reports from Yerakies village, in south-west Cyprus, said a crowd of women yesterday snatched two Cypriots from the hands of 10 men of the security forces. The women then rushed the soldiers, who then left the village.