Fresh threat from Egypt

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33513, 19 April 1974, Page 11

Fresh threat from Egypt

s ’ P * Rr iter —Copyrtyhf CAIRO. April IS. Egypt has declared that she will join Syria in lighting Israel ii lhe situation on the Golan Heights front becomes serious.

The warning conies from the Minister of War (Field-Marshal Ammed Ismail), according to the Cairo newspaper. "Al Ahram." Marshal Ismail. Commander in Chief of the Egyptian and Syrian fronts, told a group ; of Egyptian students yestcrday that he was consulting his Syrian counterpart, Lieutenant-General Mustapha Tlas. on the situation. said “Al Ahram." Marshal Ismail described the daily clashes between Syria and Israel on the Golan Heights front a- a war of attrition. He 'aid that if it developed into a real war. or the situation 1 ibecanie serious "We will! j undoubtedly join the 1 fighting." Marsha! Ismail s warning, ’followed a statement earlier by President Sadat that (Egypt was still on guard’ (with an overwhelming number of tanks ready to cross! Ito the Suez Canal, if neces[sarv.

I'wo Israeli soldiers were' 'killed and three yyounded in 'continued fierce fighting I with Syrian forces on the [Golan Heights front, today., according to reports from !Tel Aviv. Israeli aircraft were in action again yesterday, for the fourth time in a week, bombing Syrian artillery bat-! teries which had been shelling an Israeli outpost on the peak of Mount Hermon The latest fighting brought the official number of Israeli (casualties to Hl killed and 150 wounded since the daily [artillery battles began over a 'month ago . Israel also reported heavy; [exchanges of artillery l and tank fire below Mount Her-i mon along the southern! flank of the 300-square-mile| wedge captured from Syria in October and along the , [southern sector of the'] I plateau A Syrian communique said; 'that the Israeli gunners destroyed the village school at

Arne a' 'he foot of M ui ' Hermon. 20 mile' south-uc'i of Damascus Ihe 'di was empty because it wa< the independence dav he day In lerusalem a't night bomb di'PO'a expertdefused the booby-trapped bod'- of a taxi driver toun<: in the boot of his own can in a crowded street in the centre of town. fhe police and security men 'aid that they found » detonator attached to a large gas balloon, which had beei meant to explode on th* opening of the trunk o; when the body was removed Ihe police spokesman 'aw that the driver had ippai entlv been strangled by Arab guerrillas who yvished to us* • his vehicle as a bomb to create havoc in the centre of the cite. A grenade "as thrown mm a crowded street tn the mI [age at Bnei Brak, near Id Aviv, today First reports -aid that about 12 people were injured