CIVIL STRIFE AGAIN IN GREECE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 234, 30 June 1944, Page 6

CIVIL STRIFE AGAIN IN GREECE

Collapse Of Agreement LONDON, June 28.. Civil war has again broken out. in Greece, according to reports received in the Middle East. Sporadic fighting is going on between the powerful and numerically superior National Army of Liberation and the smaller, monarcliist band under Colonel Zervas. Both.sides claim that hostilities were started by the other. The outbreak has virtually dissolved the agreement between the Greek political forces which was arrived at by the recent Lebanon Conference. The dissolution of the agreement has been hastened by clandestine courts-martial in Cairo, at which officers ami soldiers of the Greek army and sailors of the Greek navy are being tried for incidents which occurred before the Lebanon meetings. The strongly-backed Liberation movement. inside Greece has turned down the offer of Ministerial posts in the Greek Government in exile, of which M. Papandreou is Premier. A message from Alexandria says that a court-martial sentenced to death three members of the crew of a Greek destroyer which ’joined in the recent mutiny. Seven others were sentenced to periods of hard labour of between five and 20 years. Six were acquitted.