Greek resistance movement during World: War Il, Hatzidanilidis had been held for eighteen years as a political prisoner, following restoration of the monarchy when the Allies took over Greece after the war. Numerous efforts had been made to secure his freedom because of the illness from which he suffered.
Hatzidanilidis is the seventh political prisoner to die this year behind bars in Greece,
It is estimated that more than a thousand political prisoners are still being held. . PERU JOGS OIL COMPANY ON TAX BILL
‘The International Petroleum Company of Peru, a. subsidiary of Standard Oil, has been handed .a bill for $75,000,000 by the Peruvian government of | newly elected Belatinde Terry -and asked bo pay up at once,
The bill is for taxes for the past forty-two years which the company absent-mindedly overlooked paying. . - ~ Besides demanding payment of this back bill, the government has indicated that it is considering declaring illegal a 1921 contract covering 166,000 nectares of oil land in the north of Peru. The government wants a new contract that would give it from sixty to seventy per cent of the pro= fits and from 12.5 to 16,66 per cent of the royalties,
If the oil trust does not meet these demands, the government threatens to nationalize all its holdings in Peru.
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