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Judicial CP - March 1956
Straits Times, Singapore, 27 March 1956Cypriot youth gets the caneLIMASSOL (Cyprus) Mon. -- Rogiros Constantinides, a 16-year-old Cypriot student, was sentenced to 12 strokes of the cane here after being arrested by his father -- a police officer. Constantinides was convicted on two charges of being a member of an unlawful organisation and of distributing leaflets in the name of Eoka, the organisation waging terrorism in support of union with Greece. His father is a police inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department of Limassol. Meanwhile, the curfew on Papithos village was lifted today although the inhabitants were still �200 short of the �7,000 collective fine imposed by the Governor, Sir John Harding, for a series of terrorist outbreaks in the village. ............ |
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