GREEK GUERILLAS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25047, 10 November 1944, Page 6

GREEK GUERILLAS

ORDERS TO DISBAND AGREEMENT BY COMMUNISTS (Reed.. 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. f) The Communists have agreed to disband the E.Ij.A.S. (Communist guerillas), on condition that similar measures apply to other partisan forces, according to Rizospastis, the official paper of the Greek Communist Party. The Daily .Mail's Athens correspondent- says the paper asserts that some of these other groups have slain Greeks besides Germans, and declares that unless all are disbanded the result will be "direct civil war." The correspondent says the fact is that all Greek guerilla forces have been ordered to disband, apart from the gendarmerie, which is being reorganised as a national militia belonging to the Greek regular forces. The correspondent also says that the charge of having slain Greeks besides Germans could be brought equally against the E.Ij.A.S. The Greek Government will put the new drachma into circulation this weekend at the rate of 600 to the British pound. FRENCH ASSEMBLY ELECTION OF PRESIDENT (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 8 M. Felix Gouin, who was president of the French Consultative Assembly in Algiers, was re-elected president of the enlarged Assembly today. ■ M. Gouin, who is aged 58, is a prominent Socialist, and was one of M. Leon Blum's defenders at the Riom war guilt trial. He was among the members of Parliament who voted against Petain in June, 1910, and he worked constantly after the armistice for the revival of the Socialist Party._ He escaped from France across Spain in 1942. A wave of criticism alleging slowness in applying reforms which were expected to follow liberation characterises Paris newspapers, .savs the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Paris. Several morning papers reflect dissatisfaction with the Government, mainly on economic issues. The resistance paper Combat charges the Government with reactionary tendencies. "What is needed," it says, "is that every member of this first Assembly should put aside personal interests and party slogans and attempt to recover the language of France." FASCIST ACTIVITIES SUPPRESSION IN ITALY (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 8 All Fascist political organisations known to the Allied authorities in liberated Italy have been liquidated, said the Foreign Secretary, Mr Eden, in the House of Commons today. Fascist economic organisations have been similarly dealt with. Thus the Italian Ministry of Corporations, which virtually controlled Italian _ industry and commerce, no longer exists. SIR JOHN DILL ! FUNERAL IN WASHINGTON 1 (Reed. 0.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. it [ At the funeral of Sir John Dill, until ' his dentb chief-of the British joint staff mission to the United States, dignitaries 'j of all the United Nations were among , I the mourners. They included the British Ambassador to Washington. Earl Hali- ! fax, the United States Secretary of 1 War, Mr H. L. Stimson. the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. General G. C. Marshall, and the Chief of I Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the i United States Armed Forces. Admiral i W. D. Leahy. Air Commodore Findlay represented the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Sir John was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.