DISMISSALS IN CYPRUS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28748, 20 November 1958, Page 15

DISMISSALS IN CYPRUS

Girl Volunteers Take Jobs Association—Copyright) *- z p-m.i NICOSIA, November 19. XAA.F.I. girl volunteers who came from to replace dismissed Greek Cypriot are expected to be serving behind today. TWy have already tidied up the canteen at • a_n>ort where two R.A.F. men died in the wnm -reason which led to the sackings. *’ -*** Bickley, a War Department employee = acd 10-c-aJ official of the Civil Servants’ Association. is flying to London today to on®. trainst the mass dismissals. Se sas been in Cyprus for 10 years and has a Jpesa >. yanot wife. Scetmty forces yesterday dispersed demohd -rs vr , were among 4000 Cypriots dismissed -rm R.A-F. and N.A.A.F.I. jobs.

The Bi. h Unitca Press reported that a young Cypriot monk named Macheriotis escaped :rom police custody yesterday while being transferred to Nicosia' police station from the central prisons. He had served a term for taking part in disturbances in a detention camp last year. The monkg was once officially described as a courier o Afxentio tl.c second-in-command io Colonel Grivas—who was killed in a mountain hide-' «t 18 months ago. In London tonight, the War Office announced that the chief of the lmperial General Stall, General Sir Francis Festing. will go to Cyprus soon on a routine visit [Earlier reference page 20]