ADEN RIVALS FIGHT

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 13

ADEN RIVALS FIGHT

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter —Copyright) ADEN, November 5. Federal troops kept tight control over main trouble spots today to prevent further violent gun battles between rival nationalist factions.

For the second night running a dusk-to-dawn curfew was in force.

Federal command warnings that they would take steps to enforce a cease-fire. The Federal command has also given the nationalists a 72-hour ultimatum to remove all arms from the main trouble spots.

Aden was reported quiet during the night after two days of nationalist gunfights in the streets and across rooftops. which have left at least 59 dead and 200 wounded. Federal troops were ordered to fire back yesterday after they came under fixe from nationalist guns for the first time. It was not known which of the two factions—the National Liberation Front (NX.F.) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (F.L.O.S.Y.)—fired at the Federal soldiers.

Fighting between the factions first broke out two days ago, hours after Britain announced that it was bringing forward South Arabia’s independence date from January 9 to the latter half of this month. Leaders of the two factions have been meeting in Cairo for the last couple of weeks about sharing power when Britain pulls out. They have appealed in a joint statement over Cairo Radio for an end to the fighting. The gun battle broke out again yesterday in spite of