Military Parade In Cairo

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 28001, 22 June 1956, Page 9

Military Parade In Cairo

! .-n <N ' Z ' PTess Association—Copyright) <R r?' ? ■ CAIR °. June 21. ’ F»™rJi5 lan 'k ul j Jet fighters and • while = r h ared . over Cairo today ’ ™ . hour "long military parade 1 marched past the Egyptian Prime • in^ er ’. C ° 1 °^ 1 P ? asser ’ as a climax - brations S UeZ evacuation celeS° vlet . military equipment worth iBO million made its first public appearance in the display. Columns of British Centurion and valentine tanks manned by Egvptian crews rolled by with hundreds of Czech-made armoured troop-carriers ?, e^’Pr °Pelled heavy field guns. Strikingly - uniformed detachments of the armies of Jordan, the Sudan. Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen and Saudi Arabia took part in the parade. All showed the influence of British and French training. Some wore American-type steel helmets. The detachments included Sudanese m black-plumed turbans, red-bereted Saudi Arabian paratroopers and Lebanese ski-troops carrying theii crossed skis on their shoulders and sub-machine guns slung on their backs. Although there were more than 10.000 Egyptians in the display no field forces were taken from their frontier posts, which remained fully manned.