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Oct. 10, 1955 - Ban on Oxi Day parades starts all-day rioting in Nicosia: Because of the situation in Cyprus, the annual Oxi Day parades, which marks the entry of Greece into the war, were banned this year, But after the Greek churches finishes their thanksgiving service, crowds of youths carrying the Greek flag, marched into Metaxas Square, Nicosia, and touched of a full day of rioting. Cyprus police, assisted by British troops wearing gas masks, cleared street after street with tear-gas and batton charges against a hail of stones and catapults, uses by the mobs. There were casualties on both sides, and many youths were arrested. Photo shows a tear gas shell is fired among a band of youths in all directions. Earlier they had marched into the Square carrying Greek Flags

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