Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: HELLAS PRESS
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.005286

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Greece-Cyprus; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: HELLAS PRESS /; handwritten: NY / 77//t8-4; stamped: POST OFFICE / from BLACK STAR ATHENS; typed on label: THE CYPRIOT FIGHTERS TURN IN THEIR ARMS. / Yesterday morning the Cypriot fighters of EOKA started / turning in their arms ans [sic.] ammunition to Greek members / of Cyprus police. The arms and ammunition were carried / in cars and truck whose circulation numbers were covered / with a piece of newspaper. Within yesterday there were / brought in 613 rifles and automatic guns, 2,000 bombs, 17.000 / 17.000 rounds of ammunition and one ton explosives. / NICOSIA / 14//3//59

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: CYPRUS / CRISIS
Retouching: N