OPINION

July 1-3, 1958

EVROS BORDER INCIDENT: Thessaloniki, 2 – An incident took place yesterday in response to the arrest by Turkish military guards of a Greek fisherman near the Evros River. Three members of the National Security Brigade from the village of Feres entered Turkish territory and, taking officials there by surprise, freed the Greek fisherman, Ilias Koukoumanis. LEBANON CRISIS: London, 26 – Lebanese President Camille Chamoun said in a radio statement today that if the United Nations observers did not succeed in putting an end to the intervention by the United Arab Republic (Egypt), he would make a fresh appeal to the United Nations Security Council and ask for the help of the free world and the United States. COMMUNISTS ARRESTED: Police in Kifissia and Nea Ionia, both areas in Athens, have over the past few days broken up an illegal Communist Party (KKE) cell. They managed to discover and arrest an escapee from Vourla Prison, the dangerous communist Michalis Kolokotronis, and have discovered his connection to a prominent member of the United Democratic Left (EDA), Frixos Protogerelis, private secretary to parliamentary deputy Ilias Iliou.

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