Jews Claim Defeat Of Egyptian Army

Grey River Argus, 29 October 1948, Page 5

Jews Claim Defeat Of Egyptian Army

LONDON, October 27. Reuter's Tel Aviv correspondent quotes the chief of Israeli _ military operations, Colonel Yigal Yadin, as saving the Egyptian army in the Negev has been completely deieated. Alf the Egyptian front-line aircraft have been destroyed, and most of their front-line troops liquidated. Their flagship. King Farouk, has been sv,nk. _ . The Associated Press Paris coi respondent savs that Jewish sources there reported that the Efp^i ai ? have massed armour as if 101 an tempt to break out of the P°£^ at . , _ the Judean hills east of the Je\ - held Beersheba. _ . T On the central front, Iraqi h eav -. guns were reported shelling Has el Ain in the yPcinity of the pumping station of the Jerusalem water pipe line. with. Israeli artillery hung back.

Jews Contest “Cease Fire” Order

LONDON. October 27. The Israeli Government told the U.N.O. mediator. Dr Bunche. in a letter dated to-day, that the Security

Council’s Negev cease-fire order did not imply an absolute injunction to return to the status quo positions. A Government spokesman said the order made it clear that a return to the status quo “might well be considered as a basis for future negotiatlODr Bunche will refer the letter to the Security Council to-morrow.