NEW STRIKE IN ADEN

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31366, 11 May 1967, Page 13

NEW STRIKE IN ADEN

(N.Z.P.A.-Keuter —Copyright)

ADEN, May 10. Aden was gripped by a fresh general strike today —the eleventh this year.

Shops, offices, petrol stations and schools were closed and road, air and port traffic ground to a halt. The strike was called by the banned National Front for the Liberation of Occupied South emen (N.L.F.) and its rival, the Egyptian-backed Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (F.L.0.5.Y.).

British service families were ordered to stay indoors in a statement issued by the British High Commission and service authorities.

N.L.F. called the strike to protest against the civil war with F.L.O.S.Y. and emphasise the need for halting it and achieving unity against the British and South Arabian Federal Governments. F.L.0.5.Y., in its strike call,' ignored the N.L.F. invitation to national unity and to end the war but urged its commandos to intensify their military attacks on the British.

F.L.O.S.Y. blames the British for recent killings of Arabs by Arabs—allegations strongly refuted by the authorities.

The Aden Trades Union Congress (A.T.U.C.) ordered people to stay indoors today “while recording your curses on the British colonialists who

have created this ugly and difficult situation for us.” It said in a statement that national unity could not be achieved through general strikes but through the subordination of personal political interests to revolutionary interests.

Leaflets distributed in Aden last night on behalf of 98 detainees at the Al Mansoura

detention centres said they would observe a hunger strike today in support of the N.L.F. strike call.