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Saturday 4 October 1958 directe av que je parlais were hastily put under cover in the safe: Curfew, I leave my cheque and take the car to quickly fetch Odile in les streets rues déjà mi-désertes. Arrivé at Hermes Street: numerous soldiers and policemen with weapons in hand, a stretcher on the ground: two two Eoka terrorists there killed a English soldier's wife and seriously wounded a second. Against the wall the suspect men lined up, head against the wall, hand crossed behind the neck, I was able to slip a way through among the police cars, and the army and the cars abandoned by Cypriots arrested and obtain passage thanks to my French passport and diplomatic one. Found Odile in the town already completely deserted and all the shops closed and was able to bring her back to Enk. through numerous roadblocks where the machine guns were pointed at us before the checking of our papers. But everywhere the soldiers, officers or policemen politely
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