THREAT OF CIVIL WAR IN GREECE
I Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, June 8. I Twelve Communists were arrested after fhoy attemptcd to occupy tlie 1 police station and killed some policenien, says the Exchange-Telegraph 's Athens correspondent. Pifty C imniuiiisls who raided the village of Koniatsi, nortli of Thessaly, killed tlyce and wounded three Nationalists. The leader of the Opposition in the Chamher of Deputies approved in principle the pl'oposed extraordinarv security measures but made reservations regarding clauses suspeiuling some pnrts of the Constitution. The tension which has niounted in Creece as blame for the new disorders is placed 011 Comnnmists, was answered by Left Wingers with prediclions that civil war would follow the promulgation of the Government decree imposing the death sentence for actions against the State, says the Associated Press Athens correspondent. JVIr. Tsaldaris, disclossing that 1200 persons h'ad been killed in anued dis- ' orders since April 1, said the Governinent would not tolerate such a state of I terrorism. I —
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1946, Page 8
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