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Show BRITISH THII GREEK REPORTS IRE DISTORTER Declare Press Dispatches Were Inaccurate Because of Royalist Control of Cables. ATHENS, via London, Dec. 7, 2:05 a. m. The Greek government has replied to the reprc3cntations of the neutral ministers regarding the mistreatment of Venlzellsta, giving assurance that an investigation investi-gation has been ordered, i. . LONDON", Deo. fl, 8:22 p. m. The foreign of fire has issued a stalement to the effect that there la reason to believe that press messages do not give an accurate ac-curate picture of the actual situation at Athens, both because the royalists have succeeded in regaining control of the cable and press censorships and because the allied press correspondents in Athens Ath-ens are leaving under threats of personal per-sonal violence, iu common with all those suspeeled of Venizelist leanings. Details of the trouble at Athens in the form of dispatches to the British j authorities have led the foreign office, I to describe them to the Associated Press j as constituting a programme of the roy-j alists agaiust the Venizelists. These 1 dispatches state that the looting of Yenizelos's own house was conducted by V reek regulars under command of superior su-perior officers. Statements Denied. i The royalists inserted that shots were i fired from the house, but the British authorities deny it. After the house ' wan sacked and the articles received, in cluding the former premier's personal clothing, ten I'retans lodging there were imprisoned. Their subsequent fate is unknown. 1 Knvalksts then attacked the house of M. Kalopthakis, translator for the American legation. He took refuge in the American legation. But the house ! occupied by his sister and servants has been besieged for two days. i A neutral diplomat, who saw tho re moval of General (Jorakas, head of the Vrni.tdos riM-niit inc bureau, and the fnnni'r duet' of pulit-c, Mar'ul;ts, from The parliament nou?t divwrihod their condition as pitialdf. (leneral Coraka? Idoknil as though bo had boon almost, killed. According to the dps.-rintiun, Moo.i poured from his head. His clothes had been torn, his eyes were .blackened and swollen from blows received during his examination before the magistrate. 11 in companions were in even worse condition. con-dition. I'liotographs now in tne hands of the British were taken of the men. Shot in Cold Blood. Another prominent Venizelist was shot down in cold blood, while Mr. Ken-del, Ken-del, a British diplomat whose house was attacked, says he saw another prominent promi-nent man named DescaU repeatedly clwbhed with ritlcs in the hands of regulars reg-ulars and kicked in the body until he fell unconscious. Mr. Rcndrd also reports re-ports that while he was in jail ho saw a number of Ycuizelists kicked and clubbed. The dispatch states that the correspondents corre-spondents have impartial testimony to the effect that no shots worn fired from Mr. Kendel's bouse, whh was not only fired into bv regular soldiers, but that tbe soldiers' forced their way into the house to the room of Mr. Renders sister, sis-ter, who was ill in .bed. v |