THE CYPRUS REVOLT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 7

THE CYPRUS REVOLT

SITUATION IMPROVED SOME MINOR DISTURBANCES TROOPS FIRE ON MOB (British Official Wireless.) Rcc. noon. RUGBY, Oct. 20. Tho Colonial Office states that a telegram received from the Governor of Cyprus this morning reports that the situation in the towns is easier except in Kyrenia. There is only a small police detachment at this town, which hitherto has been quiet, but on Sunday a mob was incited to tear down and destroy the commissioner’s Union Jack and hoist the Greek flag. Military reinforcements were sent and the situation is in hand. •Reports from the country districts indicate that minor disturbances occurred, including tho destruction of a bridge and the cutting of telegraph wires. A Nicosia message states that troops were compelled to fire during a riot outside the commissioner’s office, Kyrenia, led by the Bishop of Kyrenia, who -was arrested. Four were wounded. A mob attacked the police station at Famagusta, but details arc lacking. Thoso arrested in connection with the revolt include two members of the Legislative Council. The newspapers bitterly attack Britain over the Cyprus revolt. Even strong Government organs sympathise with the insurrection, which the Ethnos declares is “due to Britain’s ill-treatment, which has been worse than has been shown to negroes and inferior tribes.’’ The Elfthershan Throsos complains that the British Labor Party failed to carry out its promise to secure independence, and says: “The maintenance of British rule is a stigma on civilisation.”

The Acropolis asserts that M. Vene zelos ’ servile pro-British policy ‘ ‘ deep ]y wounds the national soul.”