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GILMANS GLOUCESTER ARCADE ·

COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Egypt's Crisis

THE events in Egypt moved

Twiftly over the week- end to a ̈ 'criala which threatens the country's political stability and if allowed to deteriorate further, will take Egypt to

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MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1954.

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TROOPSHIP The Warning

FIRE-GUTTED STILL AFLOAT

First-Hand

the brink of civil war. The The Bikini Test very stability which tho Revolutionary Council kos infused into the country since the deposition of King Farouk in July, 1952 has boen shaken to the founda- tions by the Naguib-Nasser dispute. Certainly the dis- banding of the Revolu- tionary Council in prepara- tion for the forthcoming general elections

A

constituent assembly was Interpreted by

Officer's

Report For Description Of

Eisenhower

the Atomic

for

Washington, Mar. 28, The Chairman of

States various United elements in the community Energy Commission, Mr as a relaxation of the rigid | Lowis Strauss, returned grip which the Council has from the Pacific atomic maintained on Egypt during proving grounds today to give President Elsenhower a first-hand report on the recent test at Bikini,

itx administration,

The Moslem Brotherhood has re-appeared on the acene with its old fire and vigour demanding 4 holy war against the British; the trades unionists supporting the Nasser faction of the Council and the student the groups supporting Naguib faction have, by their demonstrations and strikes. heightened tho tension and brought the country to the stage where

a harsher application of the

existing martial law can be expected. If Nagulb has done one thing he has demonstrated there has been no basic change within the rabid political elements of Egypt and they have been waiting for just an opportunity as this to re-assert themselves to show

more

Well-informed sources mean- while said that the next Ameri-

test of can

more an even powerful thermo-nuclear device than exploded would go ahead as scheduled in spite

exprossed

On

DI concern

March

EVETRCES.

The influential Washington Post and Times Herald took up that

leading concern in article today which warned that the United

States

would be

"branded with the mark of Cain for having polluted" the waters the Pacific in the March explosion.

of

James Van

that their power has not biggest

50ld

Disaster

Survivors May Be Flown Home

Algiers, Mar. 29.

The British troopship Empire Windrush, gutted by a sudden fire off Algiers yesterday, was still afloat last night after 1,424, men, women and children aboard had taken to lifeboats.

An officer and three of the crew died in a vain effort to fight the fire.

A naval officer among the rescued said on landing here last night there was a small explosion in the engine room where the blaze started, but. British Consular officials denied knowledge of re- ported sabotage.

The men, women and children, mostly service. men and their families, calmly took to the boats when they were told to abandon ship.

"

Removal Of Naguib

Life From Public Under Discussion

Cairo, Mar, 28.

The conference of the Revolutionary Council and the Cabinet, to try to settle President Mohammed Naguib's dispute with the military. junta, broke up tonight without any decisions. being reached, Cairo Radio reported. The broad- cast said the conference would resume its meeting

tomorrow.

Well- Informed sources nonetheless

the Atomic Energy Commission was going ahead with its hydrogen bomb tests in spite of such concern,

A Congressional source, Mr Zandt, disclosed over the weekend that the next test of Д thermo-

devico nuclear

take would diminished in the slightest.place between April 10 and 28. A change could hardly be-It was suggested that the expected in just over two precise date would be deter- years. Naguib should have mined by wind and weather realised that.

conditions.

A British naval officer who' s.m. I looked at my watch and Scientists, it

was understood, declined to give his name told by that time everyone, had left between

"super cautious," Rauters by telephone from the the ship. were being Nasser test winds and

"When we finally left the fire radioactive reception centre in Algiers:

"A small explosion took place had taken hold amidships and IM essential and it is ashes over a wide area as was in the boiler room or the engine the flames were clearly visible.

to have occurred necessary for Egypt's safety reported

room, Smoke immediately pone-. We could even feel the heat from March 1 test.trated to the passenger following the

atcom- our lifeboats several hundred Reuter

modation just above.

yards awaß". It was like a furnace.

"On behalf of all the passen-

The commanding officer of the troops aboard the Empire Windrush is Lieutenant-Colonel R.W.H: Scott of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Major Amin Shaker, spokesman, for the Council, said Among the 1.268 troppe were 370 national servicearlier. The joint, Cabinet, Junts and Congress at pré. men and 79 regulärs due for release, 17′ invalide and sent are discussing whether Naguib shoukbe removed 228 men due for home leave, P

from public life, in view of the steadily growing con census of public opinion.

A rapprochement Naguib

that the

Council

Revolutionary should maintain control of the country at the

scatter

present stage if the sins of Bomb Outrage

the Revolution are to be at-

tained. Naguib obviously At Race Track

realises his recent dispute

had the The

with Colonel Nisser seriously jeopardised Council's authority. break-off of the Suez Canal talks must have convinced him of this. His precipitate decision to restore complete political freedom in Egypt does nothing to enhance his reputation of solidity and reilability, however. Rather it suggests panic. What use- ful purpose was to be served by releasing 500 members of the Moslem. Brotherhood goaled for activities which threatened the stability of the State?

IT in tolerantly accepted in

Bome

..

Trumpet.

The Emir of Kažo› srould uct permit an, sirfieta to operate on his land unless his personal trumpeter.was allow- ed to sound warning whenever a plane landed or departed. The Jet airliner on the air- fold is owned by the Union de Transport, Aeromaritime the French opmpany operating a West Afriçan- sir - "route...

London Express."

Mau Mau “General”

Surrenders

214333

Guerillas Cut Supply Routes In Indo-China

Hanoi, Mar. 28.

The French High Com- mand said today that Com- munist guerillas had chokod off 50 per cent of vital sdp. plies including American -aid-moving here by road from the port of Haiphong. Some 70,000 guerillas operating In the Rod River delta around Hanol stepped up their onslaught on supplice, apparently to keep them from getting t the besleged defenders of Dien Phu, 180 miles west of here. The

supplies are airlifted from here to the

sted fortress beleaguered

A military spokesman said that besides the heavy inroade on the highway, the rebels lind derailed the heavily-guarded train running parallel with the highway, 10

in chro

weeks. The spokesman saidī after each Red attack traffic was

"sharply" reduced on the

the rail-

Way.

The supply trains run only during daylight hours, .but minio-clearing operations ........ take up several hours, cutting-tha trains time during which the can-run down to Ave or six hours.

DARING RAIDS Intermittent clashes have been reported all along the crucial communication lines, expecially in the region - 25 miles east of Hanoi

Vietminh***guerliles recently staged daring daylight raids on vehicles maying: along Route Five, causing

undisclosed casualties.

Ana

French Union bombers fighters meanwhile continued low-level napalm attacks and, strafing of Communist positions around embattled: Dish Blen despito. poor flying

Smail Franco - Vietnamaso

test the

a

de

clothes but everything stors, who behaved coolly and 1.saw King Saud of Saudi-Arabia.versives" and left it to "the self to a Kenya"regimetst: kor-] up, oventually with the hard-

exemplary.”

mained cool.. were pleased and surprised the welcome we got.

at

group of

announced.n

United Press,

"Abuot 100 married families ed, by a nmiriber of stúdents in for continuation of the Revolu- have been China',” subordi- rand

Cairo, Hellopolis and Azhar tionary Council's power after successful of

Nairobi, Mar. 29. A second Mau Mau "General" patrols, sent out to, 111e1100- aurrendered today as, a-rešait1of- the Government's recent offer 40,000 rebels surrounding: Blen by thumbing a lift on, an army Bien Phu, have killed 20 of the Jorry in the South Nyeri reserve. enemy in the last 24 hours, the

He is "General Koliba last While the Communist

last High Command said. The Revolution Council has of Trade Unions condemned the of captured "General China's“

tightened on the

thebealeged the Revolutionary battalion. commanders in the

French fortress,

column under received, more than 1,400 cables ending of from all parts of Egypt, con-Council and ordered general Mount Kenya region. ́ ́.

Colorol

Cravecoeur Awan "General Kaliba" stopped a moving through Northern Laos demning Naguib. The Workers' strikes in public utilities at mid- Union Syndicate, University night. tonight

lorry of "C" company of the 7th towards Dien Bien Phu The U

Actually, all public transport Battalion the King's African column's position was estimated and school students, and social and intellectual organisations hated early in the day.

Rifles In the Rugura location, at

at: 60. to 70 miles south of the the about When Nagulb promised sent cables, "!

nine miles

encircled

though this "I was with my wife and

Cairo Radio said that after return of civilian control after Karatina in the South. Mycel

Military observers s

#sald the three children and We were

George e Erskine's Head-

of the purpose We

Crevecoeur awakened by the smoke,

gers I should, like to say how the conference Naguib met with his restoration 15 power the reservo. this morning, Generaz was not confirmed, d

Abdel Nasser, Salah Salem and people cheered. But yesterday Bir

column might be to harass the. Immediately got up and hur-

denounced quarters announced. much we were impressed by the

others for, 20 minutes and then Council

as a tool of sub- riedly dressed while I collected fine conduct of the soldiers and

He formally surrendered him- Vietminh rear and possibly linke the President an Agadir, Morocco, Mar. 28.

Egy-tian, people" to chart the geant "Bunty" Allison, who was pressed French defenders. Meanwhile, The Pasha of Agadir, Sit el happened so rapidly after that efficiently. from beginning to who is on a visit here.

future.

travelling in the lorry. Madani, was wounded in the that very few people had time. end. There was no panic at any lawyers calling themselves the Lov nment's

VAST OUTCRY

drove bla Sorgent Allison A vast thigh and one Moroccan was Half an hour after the explosion time and oven the children re-wee weng

outery arose today prisoner to

and handed Nyeri harid the order to abandon ship was killed

OPEN TO ALL today when grenade exploded in the Pasha's Biote

"When arrived at Algiers we hunger striko until the Council Mabt large and small poured him over to special branch :

rescinds It résolutions

Johannesburg, Mar. 28; "There was no panic whatever

into the streets, some shouting offelal box here at the local race and the behaviour of the crew

Thursday. The move was join-for Naguib and some shouting ters said: "Kaliba is known to

General Erskine's He

After a seven-hour, debate to- track. Three other people were

military personnel was

of the most day the Senator of Witwatersr seriously injured and three and

Univeralty, voted " by, a 350 of us have been lodged officials also had to be taken

Universities. the The officer sátu

the Nagulb deadline. The loudest rates and was tipped to succeed majority of two to one to keep chaleta in a to hospital.

a suburb outside

Major Salém appealed for outery come from the Council's him "China"

when

captured the university open to all rudes. three stukers Algiers. The unmarried sailors casualties were

of the calm and an end of the strike. supporters and apparently they fast January. There can be no The Atty members and an electrician who were on and soldiers are in. barracks,

FORCES SHOWDOWN

won duty, in the engine room.

doubt, that his surrender is Senate include all the pro- "We are belog looked after

The military junta häd forced Demonstrators assembled all directly attributable to contacts fessors, heads of departmenti communication with the engine by the Mayor of Algiers, who is

made with him through the and representatives of the Else- on cused when the explosion giving out clothing to those who a showdown with the President over town. In one incident six

his determination students were injured:

„France-Pressò. need it. He has even managed tonight over

to restore. "No one was injured, though to find children's clothes. took place,

govern- where police armed with rifios medium of Chit”—Reuter, lecturers. several burned their hands slid- Lloyds agent at Algiers Baldment. Police and naval forces and clubs maintained tense con-

trol. to ing down ropes to the boats. tonight that four engineers had swung over Nagully's

During the talks the demon- The wanien and children left been killed in an explosion In ponents in the test of strength. first and the last men were in the engine room F

of the Major Salem, Minister of Na-strations belled in Cairo. There

tional Guidance, indicated that were also incidents in Alexan a great

hurry,"

Windrush.

too

behind dria. But in almost every case The vessel was reported still the Army The weather was very good-

Nasser

when

he sald In a strong riot squads of police, afloat and burning.

Abearing clubs and rifles, held the tug Dexterous speech to demonstrators.. no waves;

In check until the "The general feeling on board and a salvage vessel are on officers and all units

Cabinet session started A have their

the abandoned the country.

have way to

screaming crowd then gathered unanimous rowdy resolved that the Revolutionary artside the Presidency gates. hod

for ship. better conditions

* British aircraft, which flew Council shall remain in power United Press abandoning ship.

Police officers met here "As we left wo

Saw three

And over the Empire Windrush at approaching steamers

the resolved p.m. GMT reported that response to our first SOS at 8.20 ship was still afloat. The tug lons that would end, the Re- St Louis of Algiers was stand-volutionary Council's rule on ing by her and trying to take July 24 as Nagub crdered. The her in tow,"

Egyptian Fleet sailed out and a of Japaneso turn from was a number wives of Britlah servicemen

Some Europeans were slightly hurt but were able to go home. The Police made an arrest, Three other grenades were thrown but failed to explode after three Foreign Legionalres had rendered them harmless.

France-Presse

Aleutians Quake

Cleveland, Mar. 29.. the world today that to A "strong earthquake, Impose authority upon an possibly on the western tip of unwilling community it is the Aleutian islands,

Was

only

All

calm, with a slight breeze and

necessary, even essential, te. | recorded here at 3.47 p.m. today that we could not

the seismograph at John Carroll University.

Seismologist Fr. Henry Birker hauer said the quake "could have caused damage."-United Press,

resort to arbitrary methods. on Such accusations vero levelled against Kemal Ata- turk in his attempts to con- vert Turkey from an archaic mediaeval Eastern Sultanato Into the modern Republic It is today. For better or

worse, the means justified Baghdad

the end. It may therefore bo many years before the true character of the new Egyptian Republic emerges, and a general amnesty on the lines decreed by Generai. Naguib on Friday is no

Still In Danger

The British

3

a civilian

Was

not to support elec

Sheepdog's

Some reports said that there spokesman said it would not re Faithful Vigil

among the survivors-Router. From Flood Waters

Baghdad, Mar. 28.

4

the Mediterrançan

order was ro

By London, Mar. 28. An old sheepdog kept faithful: vigil by the body of his dead. Throughout Cairo, competing

master for 15 weeks, it was Te- AIRLIFT POSSIBLE "E

| demonstrations bolled up for and vealed here today, when a London, Mar, 29. against Naguib the loudest chance passerby, found the body

British and biggest condemning him-in of 186-year-old-s

“TARE: -Survivors of the King Feisal II of Iraq, who returned from a tour of troopship Empire Windrush, a sudden reversal of the popular guarded by Pakistan today, later flew over the flooded area east of

which caught are yesterday: In support that won him packs the day made

Presidency, less than a month the: Derbyshire hills: watching be Presidency, less than a month way to ensure the success of the city which is still threatening Baghdad Itself.

the Mediterranean,"

can, may

his flock apparently during the the revolution, even if it

flown home.

gross-roote W. Odling, a senior

strength

very cold spell last winter, docs enhance the popularity

Colonel: The Irrigation Service an-, the irrigation official said of its instigator. If General nounced today that the danger Breaches Would have to be wer Official who new out to forced the Revolutionery Coun

from the blocked up again If the water Naguib has the interest of no longer arose

the welfies of British troops decision tripping Egypt at heart he must not swollen Tigris River, which was which had already escaped was for lart night to look after all lato last month to

now subsiding,"

from the to be reduced,

and theirkitmiller, fald at the office and resto allow himself, to be blinded 1-****

to Gamel Abdel Nas bave Government tonight airportWay" inky Tho enormous DIEBAUE of water,

families home by special the revolution overnight" as it specially blasted breaches from Bauhdad and Baqudah to

War Offee spokesman were. Colonel Nasser has the

out of the 'clly in an attempt to river and which

but

the

by his desire to achieve the which originally flowed through '| blew up the railway” between UNILORED 7

it from the danger of "As airlift has been considered proved himself a wise and formed a huge lake hast of the saves nog but the present flan 1% for able counsellor in the past ty

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and the frailian Prote presh

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