BRUTAL BEHAVIOUR OF GREEK RIOTERS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 883, 8 December 1916, Page 7

BRUTAL BEHAVIOUR OF GREEK RIOTERS.

INHUMAN TREATMENT OF AGED MAYOR. SOLDIERS CHEERED ON BY ROYAL PRINCESS. Ecutcr's Telegrams. (Received December 8, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 7. Information has been received of a dastardly attack on the septuagenarian Mayor of Athens (M. Benaki). His house was fired on from the residence of Prince Ypsilanti, Master of the King's liorse, and the Princess, who is a Hungarian, was seen encouraging the soldiers. The house was broken into, and the Mayor was spat upon, Wounded with a bayonet, and beaten with rifle butts, and his beard was partly torn out. He was then dragged into the street, while the Princess stood at a window clapping her hands. The Mayor was taken off for examination. Shocking accounts have also been received of the treatment of General Corakas, who is described as resembling a corpse.