ARRESTS MADE IN CYPRUS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28657, 6 August 1958, Page 13

ARRESTS MADE IN CYPRUS

Announcement After Truce Offer (2y.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) NICOSIA, August 5. Two youths have been arrested during inquiries into the murder during the week-end of a British serviceman, Sergeant Reginald Hammond. An official statement did not elaborate, but an authoritative source said earlier that two Greek Cypriot youths, one of them aged 14, had been arrested. No formal charge had been made, the source said. Cyprus law allows police to hold persons during inquiries into an alleged offence without a definite charge.

The announcement of the arrests came soon after the Eoka terrorist leader, Colonel George Grivas, * announced an immediate truce in all operations against the British and Turks, at least until August 10.

He made one provision, however. —if British and Turkish “provocation” continued, he reserved the right to “resume operations” from | August 10. Two Turks and four Greeks were found dead in various parts of the island yesterday. x Two of the Greeks were an 80-year-old man and his wife aged 75, who were found with their throats cut near the Turkish village of Phasoula in the west of Cyprus. Parties of men and women from Phasoula and from the aged couple’s village of Mammonia clashed later near Phasoula. One Greek Cypriot girl from Mammonia was wounded. Later it was announced that two Turkish Cypriots had been detained in inquiries into the murder of the aged couple. “Shot From Behind” The murdered British serviceman, Sergeant Hammond, was shot from behind in the Nicosia suburb of Ayos Dhometios as he was walking in a street with his two - and -a - half - year - old son. Stephen. Intensive searches have been going on for the killers of Sergeant Hammond and of Lieu-tenant-Colonel F. L. Collier, who was shot down while watering his garden in Limassol.