Brutalities Equal Gestapo's Worst

Chronicle (Levin), 12 November 1947, Page 5

Brutalities Equal Gestapo's Worst

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Received Tuesclay, 8.15 p.m. LOXHON, Xov, 11, Under fbe heading ' ' What are we British doing?" tho L>aily Mirror pnb fishes on its front page two photographs of m.Qunted Greek troops dress ed in British battledress, riding througl., Greek villages carrying the severect, heads of executed Gommunist guerril las. With the photographs it also pub. fishes a ietter from a British corpora who says that on the morning th( photographs were taken, nine heads, in c-luding one of a woman, were paraded. The writer deseribes an incident al Tirnavos, near Larissa, where Britisl. troops saw Greek troops herd 20 womei> in a barracks and brutally beat thein vvhile motor-cycle engines were started up to drown the souiul of their screams. Une woman, a cripple, was savagely beaten aeross the face and stomach with her own sticks, The corporal states that when British officers protested about the beatings they stopped in this particu.lar viliage but were carried out elsewhere, He. accuses the Greek pofice of tervorisf niethods eciual to those of the Gestapc at its worst. The publieation of this letter in the Mirror follows the publieation by tlie Gommunist Daily Worlcr, of a photo graph of Greek troops in British battle dress and steel helmets shooting down a line of handeufl'ed men and woinei, Communists. Editorially the JMirror says: "Thi Britisli solclier is neither a paid mei cenary nor a hired rhug. He objects tc being forced to witnesa firutalitiei which outrage his conscience as a citi zen and his tradition as a soldier. Soniething should be done about Greece The first tliing is to get the British Army out of that filthy hell's broth,"