Greece

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 11, 7 December 1916, Page 5

Greece

RED CROSS VIOLATION.

BARBARIC TREATMENT OF \ CREEK NURSES. VENIZELISTS BATTERED TO DEATH. Press Association —Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams (Received 9.50 a.m.) London, December 6. A telegram from the British Legation at Athens, states that two Greek Red Cross nurses, after tending the wounded at the Legation and acting as porter all day long, were subsequently arrested and dragged before the head of the police. They were shut up for thirty hours, during which they were foodless and waterless, in a hi thy latrine, and continuous insulting attempts were made upon them. Ihcn house was looted. They have now been released. They state that the headquarters of the police were Idled with Venizelists, some of whom wore battered to death and some had their eves gouged out. The late head oi the secret police was tied to a post and beaten on the head with a club by a priest of the Orthodox Church. FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY. Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, December 6. In the House of Lords, Lord b 1 cue i 4-i-i •» 4* Lord I\ ol)oi b announced that sinu Cecil’s statement a telegram Horn Athens Minister reported that a certain degree of order had boon i <•- established. It had been ascertain < that irregular armed hands nllacke 1 the Entente troops and A enizchs s. T , ieS6 hands, including their ofhceis, imd been dismissed Greek ars ...... n „w guarding Athens. Ihe ish 'minister advised that Britishers oonld <n> to the Piraeus with geeace. . .. danger to British life and property the Government did not repaid £ (itnatioo .. of loss ffoovity, -.1 taken in its determination to rS: f liloHty for rsMoy-s SJU* J** •* T |„. V.liolc .niostion involved m>>"- ■ naval consi.lcr«lMis.