A REQUIEM
FOR CYPRUS DEAD
DEMAND FOR FREEDOM
Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copy righ t. j
(Received .this day at 10.15 a.m.) ATHENS, November 1
“We want only justice” was inscribed! on a huge banner before the Church at Narougsi on the occasion of a Requiem Mass for the Cyprus dead.
Several thousands attended the service wthare various speakers urged that “powerful, magnanimous, Britain,” should give Cyprus to her natural mother,. Greece. The gathering adopted an appeal addressed to the civilised world, declaring that orders ■sent from London to stifle by fire and steel, the Cyprus peoples struggle for freedom, must be revoked, and urgvd the League of Nations to intervene.'
A Committee was appointed to present the appeal to M. Venizelos, and heads of Greek' political parties and Foreign Embassies. .A great number gathering, immediately set off to accompany the Committee to the Legations. Other great bodies have l passed a resolution, demanding fh'eedom.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 5
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154A REQUIEM Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 5
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