SITUATION TENSER
Dodecanese Islands Athens, January 27. The situation in the Italian Dodecanese Islands, particularly Kalymnos, where martial law has been declared, is growing tenser. Tlie islanders allege Italian interference in their religion, and have closed their churches as a protest, priests refusing to officiate. Italian sailors tire patrolling the streets. One priest has been detained. Another escaped. A cable, dated January 23 stated Unit tlie "Daily Mail’s” Athens correspondent said that Italian warships were reported to have been dispatched to Kalymnos to suppress a general revolt necessitating martial law, following clashes between the populace and the authorities. The Mayor Jiatl resigned, and nobody was allowed to leave the island,
Kalymnos is one of the Dodecanese Islands which Italy seized during the Italo-Turkish war in 1912. She transferred the islands to Greece in 1920, but repudiated the cession in 1922. Turkey ceded them to Italy in 192-1. The population are'pure Greeks. A Rome message stated that official circles were not prepared to issue a statement whether they were aware of the rising or whether the warships had been dispatched.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 9
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179SITUATION TENSER Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 9
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