Demand for Union with Greece Rejected M. Spiro Araouso, a delegate ofthe Cyprus National Assembly, who came to England to plead the cause of the Island's union with Greece and who recently had an interview with the Under Sccretary of State for the Colonies, has now received the reply of the British Govarnment:
M. Araouso states that he is profoundly disappointed with the reply, which rejects the union of Cyprus with Greece, and declares that the whole question must now be considered as closed. M. Araouso states that the reply refuses to grant certain political liberties to the Greek inhabitants, who are in the majority, as the Turkish population numbers only one-fifth of the Island's total population.
The Secretary of State declares that the only point which he would be willing to consider favourably was an increase of Greek representation in the National Assembly in proportion to the population, on condition that an equal increase in the British membership to the National As-
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