FIRING ALL DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 5

FIRING ALL DAY

BRITISH ATTITUDE TO CRISIS

LONDON, December 4. Firing has been going on all day near the centre of Athens between the rival Greek factions, and a correspondent says the sound of shooting only cedfeed once when several thousand people returned from the funeral of those killed yesterday; the shouts drowned the shots.

Most Government offices have had to cease work, as members of the EAM, the Left-wing Party, are not allowing any of the staff to enter.

The British military authorities have issued a statement about an attack this morning by guerrilla troops on the Royal Greek Naval College, the headquarters of the British and Greek navies. It says that a stray shot fired by the mob killed an interpreter sitting in a car beside a British naval officer. The shot was fired from some distance and could hardly have been aimed with accurate intent. While'the attack was being repulsed two British seamen were injured, one seriously. A correspondent says that the demonstrators parading today were peaceful and applauded any British troops they met.

A correspondent says that the British attitude in the present Greek political crisis is triple: whatever Constitution, monarchy or republic, and whatever Government, Right or Left, might eventually be constituted after free elections, while the war is still on there must be unity and a truce to disorders. '