Tel Aviv Tests Its Defences

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28053, 22 August 1956, Page 13

Tel Aviv Tests Its Defences

otee.llp.rn.) TEL AVIV, Aug. 21. Fighter planes and bombers today looped over Tel Aviv. and. offshore, •aval ships sighted their guns in a realistic mock raid, to test the city’s evil defence. Thousands of civil defence officers. Policemen, firemen. doctors and nurses were at their posts as, soon 85 sirens announced an “attack.’’

Kitione Lave Back in Training.— The Tongan boxer, Kitione Lave, has burned intensive training after a fortnight’s holiday in Germany where. Jth his trainer, Vin Conboy. he had discussions about a proposed series °f fights there and in Italy.—London, August 21.

The Spanish proposal, to be tabled today, calls for the appointment ul directors to the Egyptian Canal Company from countries using the canal. Another committee of user-nations would settle disputes. The Soviet Foreign Minister, M: Dmitri Shepilov, has not yet expressed his views on either the American or the Indian plan. Some conference quarters believe that he also may put proposals at today’s session. Any Soviet plan would almost certainly support Egypt’s refusal to yield her operational control of the canal to an international authority. Whatever conclusions are reached will be put to Egypt. However, the conference has not yet decided either how to arrive at its conclusions, or how to present them to the Egyptian Government. The “Daily Telegraph’’ said that it was unlikely that a vote would be called. More likely, the proposals would be passed round to the delegates like “round robins’’ for signatures. Possibly as many as 17 of the 22 delegations would support the American proposal, the “Daily Telegraph’ said.

The big, open question now is what will happen if the Cairo Government rejects the conference’s probable majority support for international control —as is generally expected. Mr Dulles said yesterday that there would be no kind of “ultimatum tc Egypt.’’ However, Britain and France, who have hurried troops, ships, and military equipment to the Mediterranean, have not discouraged the widespread belief that they may resort to imposing an international authority for the canal. Mr Dulles told the conference that if Egypt rejected the West’s ide<a it would present “a new situation to be considered by our governments at that time.’’