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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1952.

NEGUIB answers THE

answers THE EX-KING

HEGOIB

'I felt sorry but relieved'

All night we debated

SHALL WE

SHOOT FAROUK?

THIS IS THE REPLY of Mohammed Neguib, Premier of Egypt, to Farouk, the king he sacked. He challenges the accuracy of Farouk's story of his fateful last days as monarch.

Farouk declares that only U.S. intervention saved his life, and that a

宁夏

secret " 'politburo financed by the Soviet dethroned him. Neguib replies that Farouk was exiled by officers of his army.

As for U.S. intervention

saving him that is a lie. To prove this Neguib has now released his personal diary of the abdication for publication.

It is a compelling document, as dramatic as the coup itself. One passage alone will ensure it a place in the history of our times-Neguib's coldly graphic description of how the leaders debated through the night: Shall Farouk live or die?

"Remember our

-didn't we see

By MOHAMMED NEGUI Palestine martyrs

This is what I wrote in layed and our troops have them with my diary:

had no sleep."

FRIDAY, JULY 25. Everything ready; the arm ed platoon assigned to sur- round the palace is there.

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The other officers said they had had no sleep either, and nothing to eat. I refused to hold up the operation.

own

our

eyes dying because they were sent into. battle with faulty arms?”

He looked at me I hadn't.

Then Zakaria said opened my mouth Farouk had several hiding so far and said: places in his two Alexandria .***

"You, palaces so we must take all

Neguib, precautions to prevent him you wore wound- escaping.

ed three times. Have you forgot- ten how we felt, und how we promised that one day

Nothing to fear

I wanted to confer with

we

would

our

And

FAROUK

"You have beaten

me to "

these were

These pictures, and story are reproduced by courtesy of the Cairo newspaper Al-Akhbar, one of the most influential newspapers in the Middle East.

the men who decided.

WING.COMWAHDEN GAMAL

་་་་

WING COMMANDER ALY MAJOR ABDEL HAKIM AMBA,

BAGDADE

avenge All night it went on. Some said “Shoot him

martyrs and our humiliation?”

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Wing-Commander Gamal Salem pointed out that had not decided what to do

We

The atmosphere really tense and Salem

won some of

others over.

went on like

the prosecutor in

a courtroom:

"How can you

freely

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with Farouk after he was leave Farouk to dethroned, so the officers live who were in Alexandria abroad? were called to Mustafa Kemal Barracks to decide.

LIKUT.-BOLONEL ANWAR EL

SADAT

MAJGIT. KALIO MOHIN

ZAKANIA

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"He has plenty of money Salem thumped the table smuggled out and and shouted: "He has be- he will use this to trayed the army too. We fight you and to can shoot him as we would fight Egypt and shoot any traitor of our her aims. Some of the im- We were really only half of army."

perialist nations will use the council; the other half Farouk as a tool against was still in Cairo. Egypt. You are letting the murderer go free."

others said 'Try him..... some said 'Let him go'

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Zakaria said: "We are going to dethrone him, and that should be sufficient."

For justice".

Salem interrupted: "That is not enough. We are here

I decided it was time for me to get a few words in. I said:

So I stopped the debate and ordered Salem to fly to Cairo and consult the other six officers.

He was back at 6 a.m. with the news of the other

""To kill Farouk or not

six. either for justice. Ordinary courts does not worry me

concerned At 6.30 the council de- sentence to death any man way, but I am who kills another. So how with Egypt's interests. If cided that Farouk should can you acquit Farouk who it is in Egypt's interests be exiled.

that Farouk should die, has killed more than one

then he will: if not, then All this took place before man? He has killed a whole he won't. We are not out Farouk asked the U.S. for revenge, but to liberate Ambassador (Mr Jefferson "We read about poor our country and end the Caffery) to intervene.

Farouk Egyptians going to gaol for suffering stealing a loaf of bread. · caused,” How can the Army Council refuse to imprison the man who

nation.

nation?"

robbed a whole

For liberty

has

"The debate went on for Another officer interject five hours. It was almost ed: "Our revolution is dawn.

bloodless. We do not want

ISLAND OF NOW CRIME

(By A Correspondonf)

RISTAN da Cunha,

TRISTA

lonely outpost of the Commonwealth rising like some tiny mole-hill out of the

of the vastness South Atlantic, la proud possessor of a record few other territories can boast. For on Tristan crime is virtually unknown,

The 270 inhabitants live a simple life. To a large degree they are gelf-supporting, grow- ing much of their own food and making their own clothes, Money, therefore, has little value, and because of this many of the crimes which It breeds BTC unknown. No policemen patrol the island and there is no. prison.

Until 1949, when the Tritin da Cunha Development Out- poration came, Into being,' there was no regular employment för the island's Inbour force." But oven the incentive to earn wages to purchase novelties such as gramophones and, accordions |Bold" through the island's-on- profit making canteen has pot proved sufficient inducement to promote a six-day working. week.

and

The islanders work for tho Fishing Company which it: a part of the Development Cor- "I did that on behalf of the poration, but still take time off army. It expressed the feeling to attend to traditional pursuits, of all the officers who are with such as polato. cultivation

erg and bird collecting me now in this movement.

The story of Tristan da Cunha "This shows you how loyal la told in the Colonial Anjual we were. to you, but now we Report for St. Helena, of which protect you have it is a dependency who were to dethroned you because of your British possession since 1873, is St Helena, which has been a

probatly best known event to- Farouk looked surprised. He thy because of Napolcon's im said: "At any rate, I wish the prisonment there following his army all success. You have a defeat at Waterloo in 1818.. difficult assignment before you."

"You have done what I would done myself. You have beaten me to it,"

Behaviour."'

have

A tradition

•

He lived on St Helena' until his death on May 5, 1821, Abb until 19 years later did the French frigato La Bello Poute, with the Frince of Joinville on board, arrive to remove ha re- mains to France.

Today, on the site of tha With me were Wing- residenco specially built for Commander Gamal Salem and Napoleon, stands a new goven- At nine o'clock I saw the two other officers. Farouls ment dairy. A herd of Ayrshire Premier, and presented the noticed Salem looked unfriend- cattle provides an Important was holding his baton source of milk, and the trst army's ultimatum to de- ly and

Farouk told him to drop it, be-

of these cows hayu

the throne and exile Farouk. cause according to tradition now reached breeding age.

JULY 20. At ten past sixion with a baton in his hands.

he should

to the king They recently began calving. not speaks

St Helena, unlike Tritan đã board the yacht Mahroussu, Salem wanted to tell Farouk Cunha does not boast a saluted Farouk and said: "I want that he was no longer king, free record, but even so, rime to tell you something. When but I forbade him. But he did is, at a very low Ogure. There the British tanks-invaded your not drop the baton. He did not were only 17 cases tried in the stand to attention either and St Helena Supreme Court diN-

to stain it with anyone's Somebody said: Farouk palace in 1042 I submitted my just made a gesture of indiffering the ten-year period ending blood-not even Farouk's,” should be tried and the realgnation, protesting against ence, I felt extry for Farouk, 1951-six of them were for world be informed of the the shameful attack on Egypt's but I felt relieved that the sheep stealing, the commonest

crime. trial. Then it struck me: independence.

Salem was in no mood to compromise. He said:

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