SUEZ EMERGENCY

Illustrated London News - 17th November 1951

 

 

RISING TENSION IN THE SUEZ CANAL ZONE
REINFORCEMENTS AND EVACUATIONS

REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CANAL ZONE: ARMY & RAF MEN BEING DISEMBARKED BY “Z” LANDING CRAFT FROM THE TROOPSHIP EMPIRE MEDWAY AT FAYID

SYMBOLISING BRITAIN’S CONTROL OF COMMUNICATIONS IN THE CANAL ZONE: A BRITISH SENTRY IN A SIGNAL-BOX ON THE RAILWAY LINKING THE ZONE AND CAIRO

AS A SHIP BEARING WIVES AND CHILDREN OF CANAL ZONE TROOPS SAILS FOR ENGLAND ALONG THE CANAL, A BAND OF THE LOYALS PLAYS “AULD LANG SYNE”

SOME OF THE AIRMEN’S WIVES AND CHILDREN WHO WERE FLOWN BACK FROM EGYPT WALKING FROM THE HASTINGS AIRCRAFT IN WHICH THEY HAD ARRIVED AT LYNEHAM, WILTS

THE RESULT OF EGYPT GOVERNMENT ADVICE AND WIDESPREAD INTIMIDATION: EGYPTIAN WORKERS TAKING THEIR BELONGINGS AND LEAVING BRITISH INSTALLATIONS

USING A MINE DETECTOR TO SEARCH THE CANAL ZONE VILLAGE OF ABU GRAMOUS FROM WHICH SHOTS HAD BEEN FIRED AT BRITISH CARS: A STEN GUN AND REVOLVER WERE FOUND
During the weekend, which began with the Four Power statement answering Egyptian allegations about the proposed Middle East Command and which immediately proceeded Mr Eden’s first speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations at Paris on November 12, the situation in the Canal Zone underwent little change. There were a number of “pin-prick” incidents of the kind which indicated the Egyptian Government’s inability or reluctance to maintain order. Three other ranks were stabbed and manhandled in the Arab quarter of Ismailia and were rescued by a patrol of the Lancashire Fusiliers. Guards at the British Hospital at El Ballah and the petrol installation near Ismailia were fired at, but when they returned fire the assailants made off. There have been several cases of oncoming Egyptian cars trying to force British lorries off the road, and on November 10 an Egyptian motorist appears to have deliberately run down a soldier of the 16th Parachute Brigade, who, at the time of writing, was in a critical condition. On the same day, fifty-five women and forty-nine children, families of R.A.F. men in the Zone, were flown back to England in Hastings transport aircraft, while reinforcements of British troops continued,




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