BRITISH TROOPS ATTACKED

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26576, 12 November 1951, Page 7

BRITISH TROOPS ATTACKED

Three Soldiers Stabbed By Mob

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10. Three British soldiers were stabbed with knives in Ismailia to-day by a mob of Egyptian extremists. One of the soldiers was stabbed five times and seriously injured. The condition of the others is not known. The leaders of the Egyptian Liberation Commando Unit claim to have enrolled nearly 30,000 volunteers to fight the British. One of the leaders said that many of them were already in training. “Operations against the British forces will be carried out on sound Strategical lines like a military- operation,'’ he said. “Our morale Is high •nd we mean to see it through.” British troops yesterday shot and •eriously wounded an Egyptian who tried to hold up a R.A.F. corporal in Ismailia and grab his rifle. The incident occurred when the corporal was Walking in one of Ismailia’s main streets with his wife and child. Two Egyptian civilians, one of them With a gun, tried to hold up the corporal and asked for his rifle. The fight started when the corporal dived at the Egyptian, and knocked the gun aside. The corporal fired a round into the air. During the struggle the Egyptian police rushed to the scene. According to a British military spokesman the Police detained the corporal and made no attempt to hold the Egyptians.A few minutes later a patrol of Lancashire Fusiliers also arrived on the •cene, chased the Egyptians and shot one of them in the neck. The wounded *nsn was taken to hospital. i .."■A.F. planes to-day oegan the airlift of women and children from the Suet Canal Zone to Britain. . Four transport aircraft took off with 107 Women and children from families of §A.F. men serving in the Canal Zone. The airlift will continue at the rate of four planes a day until all R.A.F. families who cannot get accommodation in the guarded camps are evacuated.