-28-#669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
                                                            
 
 
was to cast doubt on an officer who has not the slightest 
      interest political or otherwise to do anything but collect gather 
              and convey the truth. Mr. Leeper adds:        
 
                                                            
 
 
"This is the story of one column of 800 hostages of whom 
      about 200 were dead within 10 days. The total number seized runs 
      into thousands and includes many reputable men and women well 
      known to the Greek public. A good many survivors have now returned 
                to Athens to tell a similar tale."          
 
                                                            
 
 
The following is an eyewitness report by another British officer. 
      I cannot give his name. I have telegraphed for it and I will 
     lay it before the committee shortly afterwards. He says
 
                                                            
 
 
"Whilst at Peristeri (an Athens suburb) interrogating 
      ELAS prisoners I was informed by civilians and national guards 
      that a great many hostages had been executed by ELAS and buried 
      in ditches on the outskirts. I proceeded to the place where exhumation 
      of bodies had begun and interrogated the cemetery guardian. According 
      to his statement batches of 15 to 20 hostages were brought to 
      the northeast corner of the cemetery every day by ELAS and murdered; 
      their bodies were then buried in some disused trenches. This 
      system of trenches which covers some 200 yards is now filled 
      with earth but trial diggings have uncovered bodies along most 
      of its length. Further to the north and northwest are more trenches 
      and pits which according to