THE BALKANS.
THE GRECIAN CRISIS.
RAPINE IN ATHENS.
RED CROSS NURSES ILL-TREATED.
BRUTALITY TO VENIZELISTS.
(Reuter Cable.) ~ (Press Assn.—Reed. 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. A telegram from the British Legation at Athens states that two Greek Red Cross nurses, after tending a wounded Legation porter all day long wer« subsequently arrested and dragged before the head of the police and Shut up for 30 hours without food or water in a filthy latrine and were nubject to continuous attempts at raping. Their houses were also looted. They have now been released. They state the police headquarters were filled with Venizelists. Some were battered to death while others had their eyes gouged out. The late head of the secret police was tied to a post and beaten over the head with a club by an orthodox priest.
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Northern Advocate, 7 December 1916, Page 3
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