JOURNALIST FOUND

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30130, 14 May 1963, Page 13

JOURNALIST FOUND

Helping Prince, Eating Rabbits (NZ.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) CAIRO, May 13. A British newspaper correspondent who vanished from Beirut in January is now working in the desert for Yemeni Royalists, according to reports quoted by the Middle East News Agency. The newspaperman, 51-years-old Harold Philby, Middle East correspondent of the London Sunday paper the “Observer” and also of the “Economist," disappeared from his Beirut home on January 23. The Middle East Agency quoted reports from Saudi Arabian border areas saying Mr Philby was at present with Prince Abdullah Al Hassan and his followers in a mountainous border area.

The prirfee's group was moving from place to place and attempting to form an army to fight supporters of the Yemeni president, Marshal Abdullah Ale Sallal, according to the reports. Mr Philby and his companions were “sleeping in caves and eating mountain rabbits,” they said. When Mr Philby disappeared his wife reported his disappearance, but later said she had received messages, including a telegram dated March 1, from him in Cairo. Egyptian authorities had said there was no evidence Mr Philby was in the country.

Andes Climbs.— An eightmember Italian party left by plane today for a twomonths’ climbing expedition in the Andes, the Associated Press reports.—Rome, May 13.

Chess TtUe.—Trie Soviet chess grand matter Tiggan Petrosian once again beat the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik and moved into a three-point lead for the world title, with five games Hill to be played.—Moscow, May 13.