DEFENCES OF CANAL ZONE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27040, 15 May 1953, Page 9

DEFENCES OF CANAL ZONE

New Precautions By British

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t Jr H ± Month of Ramadan reeuiica in tightened precautions. There was one incident in which Egyptians accused British troops of firing on a vUlage. and . other Butina precautions General ar J? ln « given yesterday when Rrhafni St*®, General Gamer Nasser, gave d Al° quit th * *° ne - Unles * British troops evacuJf the mont I h . 8 ’ General Nasser said the temper of the Egyptian people would not allow the zone to exist.

The Egyptian Revolutionary Council announced last night that eight EgyptinllB killed and 20 wounded in 43 attacks by British troops in the r,? na 4.. 2 . one March 3 and May IL J hl ?u' v . B£ T ? n . re P 1 y to BriU sh complaints that Britons in the zone had been subjected to violence by the tiesT^ 118, a nurn ber of casualMr Winthrop Aldrich, the United States Ambassador to London, paid a surprise visit on Sir Winston Churchill last night It is understood that they discussed the crisis in Egypt. ..The United States Secretary of State (Mr Dulles), who had just ended his two-day visit to Cairo, sent the Ambassador urgent instructions to make the call. Mr Dulles, while fa Cairo, discussed the present deadlock in the Anglo-Egyptian talks with General Naguib and members of his revolutionary council. The possibility of a revival of guerrilla fighting in the Canal Zone Is considered in London to be real. Reuter’s correspondent in Nicosia, Cyprus, reports that British business men arriving in Cyprus from Cairo today said that the situation in Cairo was “grim.” They said Sir Winston Churchill’s speech had been heavily censored and only disconnected sections of It allowed to be published. They added that Egyptian political circles called the speech undiplomatic.

Ismailia Out of Bounds Ismallia, chief town in lhe Suez Canal Zone, was declared out of bounds to British troops tonight, a British military spokesman announced. Four British destroyers of the Mediterranean Fleet have postponed a visit to the Jugoslavia port, of Boka Kotorska, the official Jugoslav news agency Tanjug reported today. They are the Chequers^the Cheviot, the Chevron, and the Chieftain. Tanjug stated that the British in Belgrade told the Mayor of Boka Kotorska that the destroyers’ visit was postponed because of the "operative needs of their command.” British newspaper reports stated today that the Chieftain had arrived at Suez, and it is understood that the other three destroyers are making for Port Said.