-26-#669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
                                                            
 
 
Died of exhaustion and others were executed. For food these 
      bare-footed hostages were left entirely to their own resources. 
      The inhabitants in villages for whom they begged food were mostly 
      too terrorized to do more than look on in impotent sympathy. 
      When their starvation became acute ELAS proposed to but them 
      food if they supplied the money. The equivalent of about 100 
      pounds sterling was raised but all they received in return was 
      one half loaf of bread each. A favorite trick of the ELAS guards 
      was to assemble these bewildered people and inform them that 
      after so many hours march they would find a billet a hot meal 
      and a bed. After several days of this they fully realized they 
      would be lucky if they found room on the floor of a stable with 
                  no of food of any description.            
 
                                                            
 
 
Two characteristic details. A woman discovered to have money 
      was deprived of it and shot. When other hostages protested the 
      guards justified themselves by asserting that she had been working 
      for the British. One man managed to extract a gold tooth from 
      his mouth and barter it for a little food. A few fortunate stragglers 
      from this column were picked up in the last stages of exhaustion 
      their bare feet in ribbons. Hitherto those no longer able to 
      walk had been executed; But their