SHOOTING IN BEIRUT

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28679, 1 September 1958, Page 9

SHOOTING IN BEIRUT

Opponent Of New Iraq

(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) BEIRUT. Aug. SO. Unidentified gunman today shot and seriously wounded Colonel Saleh Mahdi al'Samarai, a former Iraqi military attache, and an opponent of the new Bagdad regime.

Colonel Samara! was dismissed from his post after the coup on July 14 which overthrew th* previous Government.

Witnesses alleged in the Bagdad conspiracy trials that he was one of the persons who tried to foment a coup d'etat in Syria.

The assassination attempt took place in a busy street in the residential area of Beirut.

Colonel Samara!' was travelling in a car with two other people when' heavy fire came from another car, which sped off as the colonel's car stopped. An Iraqi Embassy spokesman said: "We know nothing ot the incident. To us. Colonel Samara! is now merely a private citiien.” Police opened an investigation immediately, but there was no indication of the identity of the gunmen.

Sequel To U.K.

Race Riots

NOTTINGHAM, August 31. An all-white crowd of about a thousand jammed St Ann’s Well road—-the scene of last week’s race riot—in Nottingham last

Ktra police guards brought in to prevent racial disturbances took away .several white men in vans. A number of persons were searched for weapons, and 24 were later charged with various offences, including having offensive weapons. The Chief Constable (Captain Popkess) said today that the incidents had been caused by Teddy boys and other irresponsible Pisons, who had had a lot to drink, and were not due to racial trouble.