YEMEN PROTESTS TO BRITAIN

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27400, 13 July 1954, Page 11

YEMEN PROTESTS TO BRITAIN

R.A.F. Flights Over City Alleged (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, July 11. The Yemen Charge d’Affaires in London, Assayed Mohamed Ibrahim, yesterday delivered a Note to the Foreign Office protesting about flights by Royal Air Force plataes over the Yemen city of Beida. The Note referred to these as “open acts of provocation.” The Note comes two days after a British Note to the Charge d’Affaires calling attention to 28 raids on the Aden Protectorate between May 1 and 24. and a serious attack on the town of Martaa by 80 regular Yemen troops and 400 tribal regulars. The Yemen Government was “fomenting rebellion” in the protectorate, the British Note alleged. The Yemen Note said that after an attack by Aden forces against the town of Aawmaa on June 47 in which several Yemen tribesmen were killed and wounded, the British Government suggested that frontier officers should meet to eliminate the cause of such incidents. However R.A.F. planes, the Note said, had continued “without any right or justification to fly low over the Yemen city of Eeida, frightening peaceful women and children in their homes.” Such acts were an infringement of all the provisions of both public and private international agreements, the Note said.