PROTEST TO EGYPT
Attacks Made On Britons
• LONDON, March 17. Britain has protested to Egypt over attacks against British servicemen in the Suez Canal Zone base in -the last 24 hours, a Foreign Office spokesman said today. According to reports reaching London, two British soldiers have been killed and five wounded in two attacks.
Egyptian terrorists wounded three more British servicemen with automatic fire last night. Five signalmen were returning to camp in the Fayid area when Egyptians appeared on the track about 10 yards away. One Egyptian opened fire with a sten gun. In the same area earlier yesterday, machine-gun killers shot dead t.wo British servicemen and wounded two others. , ■■ British military police who visited the scene of the night attack were fired on by Egyptians lurking in the trees. Tne police returned the fire. There were do casualties.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27302, 19 March 1954, Page 11
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