Evening star., 1951-10-20
Egypt Keeps Defying
British, but Troops
Stay Clear Of Canal
BY the Associossd Press

CAIRO. Egypt, Oct. 20.-Egyp
maintained her defiance of Brit
ain today with words and small
deeds-but her armed forces care
fully kept out of range of stront
British forces dug in along tn,
Suez Canal.
From Cyprus came word tha
the British garrison on the islane
was completely stripped to rein.
force the 10000 Tommies in Egyp
with a full brigade of parachut,
troops. The last 1000 troops OF
Cyprus left for Egypt today.
A British military spokesman
in Cairo said $50 army men ane
750 for the Royal Air Force art
disembarking today at Port Sale
but that they are mere replace.
ments."
The spokesman said that after
night without incident, two ma.
tive drivers of an army post ex.
change truck were ambushed thi.
morning. One man was wounded
in the thigh. The shooting oc.
CURED about 20 miles west o1
ISmailia, British base on tn,
canal.
Cairo police officials said the,
will continue the l2-day -old stat,
of alert" for police for severa
more days. Special detachment:
OF police are on extra duty a
strategic points in the city to en-.
force the governments ban OF
demonstrations.
In Cairo Egyptian officials de
livered a formal protest note &C.
cusing Britain of "endangerinl
peace in the Middle East" ant
blaming her for Wednesdays pre-
dawn battle at the Ell Ferdar
bridge over the canal. Two Egyp
tlan soldiers were killed in tn.
battle.
An Egyptian official, ordered t,
stay out of the Sudan by the col
ony's British governor general
Sir Robert Howe. caught a plan,
Tor khartoum, the Sudanese cap
ital. today.
Says He Didn't Get Order.
The official. Mohammed ABIDE
Hadi, controller general of Egyp
tlan education in the Sudan. sait
ne had not received Sir Robert
order to stay out of the Sudan
which Egypt is trying to anne,
after repudiating a 52-year-olt
agreement to share jointly will
Britain in ruling the country.
Sir Roberts order told Moham
med and the top Egyptian Arm,
officer for the Sudan, Lewa ABIDE
Fattah Bishari, to stay out of tn,
Sudan for reasons of publ,
order"
Bishari remained behind wher
Abdel Hadi left today. His arm,
superiors told him to cancel hi
reservations on the plane.
British sources said they fearet
the two officials might stir u,
trouble in the Sudan. where politi
cal factions are divided, SOM
wanting to join Immediately will
Egypt, others favoring the British
program of a slow path to indie
pendence.
Egyptians Pull Back.
Egyptian tanks, artillery and ,
detachment of infantry in armoret
cars drew up on the highway abou
halfway between Cairo and Sue,
Yesterday. then pulled away from
the bristling British fox holes ans
artillery emplacements.
The British forces are backed b,
the naval guns of the heavy cruise,
Gambia and a small flotilla of de.
istroyerS.
British troops have succeeded ir
sealing off the canal and splittins
Egyptian forces on the Sinai Pen.
lnsula in Asia and in the main
African part of Egypt.
So far the Egyptians have of.
fered no determined challenge re
them.
But the Interior Minister. Fouae
Serrag Ell Din Pasha, kept up &
running drum fire of accusations
blaming the British for all thu
rloting and other incidents alons
the canal.
He called a press conference last
night to continue his attacks
which might inf1ame a war fever
already heated by religious antag.
onlsm and nationalist aspirations
He charged British soldiers free
on bus and injured it's driver
and said the British tried to pro.
woke trouble in Port Said.
Meanwhile. the Russians offoroS