472 BRITONS RELEASED
Technicians Now At Cyprus (Rec. 9 p.m.) LARNACA (Cyprus), Dec. 22. The British troopship Asturias, with 472 freed British technicians from Egypt aboard, arrived at Larnaca from Port Said today. It is expected that all the freed men will be home for Christmas. They were exchanged yesterday for 386 Egyptian prisoners. One of the released Britons. Mr Norman Davis, of Wolverhampton, said: “The Egyptians treated us pretty roughly at the start, crowding us all into two rooms m the police barracks. ‘‘They kept us without food or drink for 36 hours. ‘‘We had no light, fuel or sanitation in the overcrowded rooms, where we were packed like sardines. ‘‘Then we were taken to a school building, where we were kept for 18 days, some of us jammed 17 or 18 to the room.
‘‘The food was inadequate, and we, were hungry all the time. I’m certainly very happy to get out of that nightmare.”
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28159, 24 December 1956, Page 11
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