APPEAL TO GREEK KING
BRITISH PARLIAMENTARIANS INTERVENTION IN EXECUTION ORDERS ATHENS, Aug. 18. A court martial at Corinth sentenced to jleath nine Community Party and E.A.M. coalition leaders in Peloponnesus charged with the organisation of sabotage and attempting to murder army and gendarmerie officers. Eighty-six members of the British Parliament have sent an appeal to the Greek King to-day asking him to exercise his prerogative to save the lives of 1300 former resistance fighters under suspended sentence of death, to stop the executions of men and women sentenced to death by court martials for alleged political offences, and to use his influence to obtain the release of thousands in exile. Guerrillas to-day captured three vil-. lages near Dadi, 20 miles south of Lamia. Cleanthos Vafiades, a brother of “ General ” Markos, the guerrillas’ commander-in-chief, issued a press statement denouncing his brother as a “ criminal.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26544, 20 August 1947, Page 5
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