WILD ATHENS SCENES
Enemy Hooted, British Cheered, Parties Fight (Received October 18, 1.40 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. British troops from a cruiser and destroyer force started disembarking at the Piraeus, early yesterday morning and marched to Athens through crowds of cheering Greeks. The Athenians! went wild in welcoming the earlier troops, but at the same time the British had to break up clashes which broke out amoug the rival political parties, says a British United Press correspondent. Order was restored a few hours after the British entry.
The city had suffered severely during the Gorman regime, mid when the Germans began pulling out a few days ago; they machinegunncd hooting crowds which had gathered in the civic square, and killed over 500. Scores of houses were also burned down. The E.A.M., the Communist Party resistance organization, appears to be the best organized in Athens. Red flags and pictures of Marshal Stalin are everywhere. '
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 20, 18 October 1944, Page 8
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