OCCUPATION OF ISMAILIA

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26634, 21 January 1952, Page 7

OCCUPATION OF ISMAILIA

British Move After Gun Battle

(NX Prm Awociatlon—Copyright)

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, January 20. t "General Sir George Erskine, commander ? ® uez Ganal zone, announced last njght that British troops would occupy part of Ismailia to-day and would patrol the entire town with flrn^ r t ed sar5 ar8 ’ as . reB a 2 un battle yesterday with Egyptian students and terrorists. * y .. I 1 E J s !“ ne t® w press correspondents that Egyptian Cairo university students, had murdered a sister vhu SSI SS?t t ? eir way mto a French invent during the battle with British troops yesterday afternoon. , ”L 8 ? tet Anthony. She is reported to have been picked out by students and shot in front of other nuns. General Erskine, obviously shocked and angered by the events yesterday, told correspondents that he had decided to occupy an area In Ismailia thrbe-quarters of a mile long to a depth of two or thrae blocks along the Quay Mohammed Ali on the north bank of the Sweetwater Canal, from which terrorists had constantly fired on British troops.

. .ut°u Id be cordoned off and searched house by house. The British occupation would remain in force as lon® ss necessary. °