ISLAND OF CYPRUS AT PEACE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1931, Page 3

ISLAND OF CYPRUS AT PEACE

OFFICIAL STATEMENT. FEW CASUALTIES DURING RIOTS. RESTORING THE DAMAGE. (British OfficAal Wireless.) RUGBY, November. 12. “The situation i s n°w fully in hand. There are in the island two companies of infantry and the normal garrison of one company. The naval parties temporarily landed have been with, drawn,” said Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lis-ter, Secretary for the Colonies in a statement on the position in Cyprus in the House of Commons.

“The ringleaders of the rioting had been arrested and ten of them bad been deported,” continued Sir Philip. “Many other arrests had been made. The casualties reported < among civilians were six killed and thirty wounded, and there had been thirty-nine cases of injuries to the police. The comparatively small number of casual" ties is a gratifying tribute to the restraint’* exercised by the naval and niili. tal-y forces, and by the police. “The damage, in addition to the burning of Government House at Nicosia, comprises the destruction of the Commissioner’s house and a plantation' at Limasol, the destruction of a bridge and life cutting of telegraph wires in the Famagusta District, and the burning of Customs sheds in the village of Pissouri. Damage was also done to a number of village police stations and other Government property. The Governor has been informed that the building of Government House should be put in hand at once; and that all Government buildings should be rebuilt as soon as possible, and ap proval has been given to the principle that the parties found responsible for the damage should be made pecuniarily, liable. “Letters Patent have been approved under which the 1 Legislative Council of Cyprus will cease to exist, and power to make laws is granted to the Governor. These Letters Patent should lie regarded as an emergency measure. It will be necessary hereafter to review the whole question of the constitutional future of'the island.”