SHOTS FIRED IN VILLAGE
EGYPTIANS BLAME BRITONS
(Rec. 11 pan.) CAIRO, May 14. British forces hearing the noise of guns at the opening of Itamadan (the Holy Month) today opened fire on Kafr Abdou village, near Suez, injuring an Egyptian cartman, according to information reaching the Egyptian authorities in Cairo today. Brigadier Hassan el Kaher, Governor of Suez, at the southern end of the Canal Zone, had informed the British officer in command that the guns would be fired by tradition. Egyptian authorities in Cairo said that as soon as the British soldiers heard shots they started firing towards the village which was once destroyed by the British, during the riots in the Canal Zone of January, 1952. The firing continued until 1.30 pun. and bullets hit several houses, reports waggoner, who was injured to the right eye, was taken to hospital. Other inhabitants stayed indoors.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27040, 15 May 1953, Page 9
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