A TERRIBLE STORY FROM ATHENS.
BRUTAL TREATMENT 6F RED CROSS NURSES.
VENIZELISTS SUBMITTED TO GREAT CRUELTY.
Router's Telegrams. (Received December 7, 9.45 a.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, were subsequently arrested and dragged before the head of the police. They were shut up for 30 hours without food or water in a filthy latrine, and continuous attempts were made to rape them. Their house was also looted. They have now been released. ■ They state that The police headquarters were filled with Veniyelists. Some were battered to death, and some had their eyes gouged out.
The late head of the secret beaten on the head with a club I
: police was tied to a post and >y an Orthodox priest.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 882, 7 December 1916, Page 7
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