LATE NEWS CHARGES AGAINST GREECE

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1946, Page 7

LATE NEWS CHARGES AGAINST GREECE

UNITED STATES OPPOSES , RUSSIA (Rec. 3.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 18. At a meeting of the Security Council to-day Mr. Herschel Johnson said the United States opposed the Russian resolution, which declared that most of the charges against Greece bad been proved true. lie hoped the Russian motion would be rejected by a large majority. The United States Government felt there was “an unsettled and disquieting • situation” along Greece's northern frontiers, and "therefore, before the final decision of. the Security Council, any investigation should include the Jugo-slav-"Greek and Bulgarian-Greek as well as the Albanian-Greek sections of the border. Mr. Johnsen said the United States Government did net believe Greece was primarily responsible for the troublesome situation , along its frontiers, but the United States was deeply concerned at the tension there, and would welcome a discussion on whether an examination of the facts would be helpful. Sir A. Cadogar? (Britain) said the Ukrainian charge against Greece “would be a joke if it were not for the memory of similar .tactics which brought such a disaster to the world so recently. The whole world recognises that the case as brought here is a sham.” * Mr. Gromyko (Russia) opposed the United States proposal. He said g it was a tactical monoeuvre aimed, at deflecting attention from the Ukrainian charge. Mr. Hasluck opposed the United States suggestion because, he said, it was simply a way out of a difficult and complicated political situation. Dr. van Kieffens (Netherlands) moved that the council invite the Secretary-General to notify the Greek, Albanian, Jugoslav, and Bulgarian Governments that the council, without pronouncing any opinion on the question of responsibility, earnestly hopes that the Governments will do their utmost to stop the regrettable -frontier .incidents by giving appropriate instructions to their national authorities, and making sure these instructions are rigidly enforced. The discussion is proceeding. AMERICAN MISSING IN JUGOSLAVIA (Rec. 3 p.m.) BELGRADE, Sept. 18. The United States Embassy has announced that R. H. Stoeckel an American civilian, who is employed by Army ordnance in Austria, has been missing in Jugoslavia since July 15. Stoeckel, after Ills arrest by Jugoslavs, sent ■ a letter to the British Vice-Consul in Ljubljana from Maribor, where he was detained, saying that while on a holiday motor tour in a jeep, the road passed inside the Jugoslav frontier, which was not marked by road blocks for posters. Two Jugoslav soldiers arrested him after he took some snapshots and passed him through army channels to Maribor for questioning. Stoeckel is- still, missing. - ' BRIGADIER’S EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. Continuing his evidence before the Parliamentary Defence Committee this afternoon, in the Laing petition case, Brigadier Avery said the charges made against him and the extravagant language used were based on ignorance of the true facts and the supply to Laing of faulty and incorrect information. The charges were also in--1 flueneed by Laing’s personal animosity to himself, against whom Laing had carried on a personal vendetta since January, 1941. After Avery was cross-examined by Laing, the. hearing was adjourned until 9.30 next Wednesday. BOS. MURPHY TO ARRIVE TO-MORROW Bos Murphy, the Now _ Zealand welterweight boxing champion, who will meet'Bobby Clarke, of Australia, in a professional boxing bout in the Greymouth Town Hall on Saturday night, will arrive at Greymouth to-morrow afternoon about 5 o’clock. Accompanied by his trainer, Jackie Parker, of Wellington, he will travel by car from Dunedin, where he has be&n training under the guidance of Archie Leckie. Clarke, accompanied ■ by his trainer, will arrive by express from Christchurch this afternoon.