1957-03-23 — Page 1

'BLUE' MEN LAUGH AT THE BRITISH

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DONALD WISE meats the 'mon who are fighting Britain's pot shot war out In Aden—and he reports: These men are fighting under impossible rules.

Beihan, Aden. with laughter at the sight of a

Highlander WENT, to a war today. Cameron

camel.

A little war in which On a 7,000ft ledge of grilled the orders are “wnit until rock Scots manning heavy they see the whites of your machine gun panted for breath.

eyes and hit you then you

may fire back."

War with the brakes on.. Over the border, the Yemeni blue men. Here, the youngsters trom Britain and the Arab levies

at the Aden Protectorales.

in the valley below them the

aand never äcities, It is like living inside the dirt bag of a vacuum cleaner heated by blow-lamp.

nothing was happening.

Everything wag ready-but

When the jeta disappeared the In this seething cauldron of only sound was the whirr of the sand ruled by Britain's hand- petrol engine driving the radio some feudal friend, the Sherif transmitter,

With all

Impossible set clatter We could

of Bethan, Government policy has laid down an of rules for our men.

This is the forum:----

You watch the Yemenis sembling a gun just inside their border so that it can fire point-blank at you.

Frustration

Although you are there under treaty to help the sherif you may not shoot until attacked The R.A.F. cannot shoot up targets over the border, so you Just play Aunt Sally.

Then there is the paperwork, reporting it all to headquarters, especially if any shots are fired

return.

in

the chatter and

muster we drove up the Wedd Nahar valley, 14 miles south of Beihan, to the

last fort on the Protoctorate side of the border.

It is called Nejd Malsor, sita

on a simple at a hill in the

EMEN

PROTECT

AREM

"If we threw all the paper we river bed and is out-gunned, use at the Yement forts," said overlooked, und an officer, "it would raze them dominated by three Yemeni forts generally to the

porched on 7,000ft. peaks atout and Arab it.

RAF

grind their teeth

The

No

Yemen's

ATORS

commanders

We hoped to draw in frustration.

Yernonl gunfire which has been going on wave cheerily from hilltops. intermittently They can laugh.

the one is frontier. putting the brakes on

them. But there was still a lot going on today as I drove through a valley of yellow-faced women- they put ochre on their faces... to see the sharp end of the pot.

ahot war.

Laughter

That would have everyone behind us to have

enabled

But the blue men did пов bite.

shells

Semi-armour-piercing (none of the 1914 vintage stuff these days) had blown out a corner at the 34-thick wall of the Beau Geste watchtower.

At one stage 350 yelling Yemenia tried to rush it. But 13

Amb guards had been

"Meteor jeto rushed overhead, for Yement gun posi- looking tions in the hills.

Squat howitzers poked their redeployed outside the fort anouts out of the scrub in the and drove them back into the dried-up river bed. The berets King of Yemen's backyard. of the paratroop gunners hung But today It was all quict

on thom bushes. Arab levies in because the Yemenis wanted it khaki headclothe doubled up that way.

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