ALARMING SITUATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1946, Page 7

ALARMING SITUATION

GREEK GOVERNMENT’S MEASURES ATTITUDE OF COMMUNISTS LONDON, September 17. Reuter’s correspondent in Athens says that increasing bandit activity, particularly in Macedonia and Thessaly, is alarming the Greek Government. The judicial authorities have decided to close the Athens offices of the Communist Party, which was raided last rtTght, when 30 of the occupants were arrested. The Communist secretary, Mr. Zazhariades, said: “The Communists are coolly awaiting developments. They are ready to come to an understanding, but with weapons at their side.” Newspaper reports from Salonika say that an armed band of 300 men from the Jugoslav frontier on Sunday night attacked two Greek detachments covering the frontier at the foot of Mount Beles. The attack was beaten oil’. One of the attackers who was captured, carried UNRRA rations in his haversack. One Greek was killed in the clash.

UNO COUNCIL AGAIN DEBATES UKRAINE’S CHARGE NEW YORK, Sept. 17. The United Nations Security Council continued its debate on the Ukraine’s charges that “aggression” bv the Greek Government, supported by British troops, endangered Balkan peace. ■ Mr. Lange (Poland) said that Poland had previously taken the view that the presence of British troops in Greece was definitely not a threat to peace, because Poland believed that the Balkan situation would improve and that the troops would be withdrawn. Unhappily, the situation had deteriorated, and Poland would support the Soviet resolution demanding that the Council require Greece to halt her provocative actions against Albania. The Greek situation, said Mr. Lange, was an example of how the spirit and shadows of Munich were again descending on Europe, particularly in the direction of Poland, which had been asked to cede part of her territories to Germany, including the Silesian industrial region, to provide a unified reactionary Germany with an arsenal with which to prepare a new war of- conquest. > After Mr. Manuilsky (Ukraine) and Mr. Dendramis (Greece) had .made further statements the Council adjourned until to-morrow.