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fully occupied with the disinte-
grafton of it's East European
empire, too busy to intervene in
the Middle East.
Curious Fight
In any case, however, II
would appear that the best the
Soviet Union could do would be
to join Britain, France and the
United States in defense OF
Egypt, if Israel were adjudged
an aggressor.
A tantalizing comment by q
high Israel official yesterday
draws attention to the curiously
light thrust by the Israeli forces,
TITS too big for a reprisal."
he is reported to have said yes
terday, land too small for a
war"
The relatively soft reaction of
official Cairo also attests to the
Of the attack. Egyptian
officials first called attention to
the relatively unorthodox move
ment of Israeli forces, bypassing
all Egyptian strongpoints and
travelling across undefended
desert. Egypt also was slow to
the invaders.
Might Withdraw
Washington observers were
wondering today whether Israel
might then quickly withdraw her
forces once Big Three units
established themselves in the
Suez area.
The Eden move was viewed in
some State Department quarters
as an open invitation to Israel
to keep on fighting.
If the Security Council finds
Israel has committed aggression
and the Big Three offer Egypt
military assistance, President
will face a dilemma which
strikes at the foundations of his
power.
Should he refuse the Big
Three's aid, Israel presumably
has the power to defeat Egypt.
Should he accept help, he
might soon find the Big Three
having its way after all in shar-
ing control of the Suez Canal.
Neither outcome would leave
Col. NaSser with much hope of
retaining the favor of the Egyp-
tan people or, more Importantly,
the Egyptian Army on which he
for his position.
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ordered to stand by in Haifs
Harbor for possible evacuation
of Americans from Israel. They
said the freighter probably could
accommodate about 400 persons
in cramped quarters.
The Embassy was seeking to
find means to move about 1000
Americans from Israel after ad-
vising them yesterday to leave
without delay"
At Alexandria, the American
Export Lines cruise ship Exoch-
orda delayed its sailing to pick up
Americans leaving Egypt. Among
those expected to board the ship
were l60 dependents of Ameri-
cans employed by the Sahara
Petroleum Co., which is exploring
Egypt's western desert for oil.
skeleton Stats
Being moved from Amman to
Beirut were 275 Americans, Ieav-
ing only skeleton stats to oper-
ate the Embassy and aid mission
in Jordan.
Seventy-five families left Da-
mascus for this city. British
nationals also were advised to
leave Syria.
Some families learned Of their
departure only minutes before
they were on their way to planes,
ships and cars. Most hurriedly
gathered only the few essentials
they could carry. leaving the
bulk of their belongings in their
apartments and homes.
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l0CCuI4Oy SOullOlt may QU III lts
special meetings beginning to-
day. would be only a first ster
in dealing with the crisis.
Bound by 1850 Pact
Such an action would invoke
the Tripartite declaration OF
1850, under which the United
States, Great Britain and France
are bound to come to the aid
of any victim of aggression in
the Middle East.
British Prime Minister Sir
Anthony Eden's announcement
of an ultimatum to the con-
tending forces to stop fighting
within IL hours or trigger
British-French occupation of the
Suez Canal zone indicated Lon
don and Paris may not wait for
United Nations action.
What advance information
the United States had of its
fellow pact members plans to
move into the Suez area was
not indicated at the State De-
partment today. Officials- COM
however, in ways indi-
eating they had not been fully
informed.
Some deplored what looked
like a British French Israeli deal
to return Britain to the Suez
Canal area she left in 1854.
The fear is that Egypt will
revert to guerilla warfare If
international control is imposed
on the Suez Canal.
Pinned in Area
1t is recalled that $4,000 Brit
ish troops had difficulties in
maintaining control of the Suez
in the early 1950s and the
aroused Egyptians could be ex-
pected to keep many more forces
pinned in the Suez area if Brit
ain and France found their ITEM
porary" occupation prolonged.
Arab GOODNESS toward the Tri-
Partite Pact since it was drawn
up in 1850 indicates that Col.
Nasser may resist the British
French proposal announced by
Prime Minister Eden today.
Once Col. Nasser allows the Big
Three'S armed forces to enter
his canal, would he be able to
get them out without agreeing
to some form of international
control?
These, presumably, are the
questions being debated in Cairo
today.
One of the unknown quanti-
ties, Of course, is the Soviet
Union. Israel apparently has
calculated that Moscow is now
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Russian Tanks
|Giirding Berlin
.AsPrecaution

BERLIN, Oct. 80 CP.-Rus-
sian tanks repeatedly took up
positions around Berlin today
in a giant exercise alert aimed
lat forestalling any Hungarian
style ti-Communist uprising.
Western sources said the Rus
slams apparently launched their
warning maneuvers in co-ordin-
alton with a massive security
alert order by the nervous East
German Communist regime.
The West Berlin newspaper
Tagesspiegel said the Russian
tanks began moving into posi-
ton last night. The paper said
the tanks took up positions in
the wooded outskirts Of East
Berlin, near key communica-
tons and utilities installations.
The Fighting Group against
Inhumanity, a West Berlin in
telligence agency. said Commu-
mist worker fighting groups were
ordered to stage a nationwide
and loyalty demonstra-
ton tomorrow. The fighting
groups are organized to put
down any revolt among East
German workers.
The West Berlin newspaper
De Kurier said that the East
German army as well as the
fighting groups would join the
Russians in the alert exercises.
An estimated 100000 East
German soldiers and police have
been on an emergency alert
since the eruption Of the Polish
crisis.
Western sources said an omi-
nous quiet hangs over all East
Germany, but so far there have
been no reports Of anti-Soviet
outbreaks.
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Continued From First Page
circles which are seeking a pre-
text for sending their troops into
the Middle East.
He then read a dispatch from
London saying Britain and
France will occupy key positions
in the Suez Canal area unless
Israeli and Egyptian forces stop
fighting within II hours.
Directly Charges Aggression
Mr.. Sobolev directly charged
Israel with aggression.
This is not the time for
long speeches." he said. ''in
our view the Council must take
effective measures to call a halt
to the aggressive measures
against Egypt"
Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban
was flying from Washington this
morning to present his govern
ment's defense.
News Of the Israeli army's
move touched of a continuous
round Of anxious conferences in
Washington and at U. N. head
quarters.
Mr.. Lodge, Sir Pierson Dixon
of Britain and Bernard Cornut-
Gentille Of France met for As
minutes with U. N. Secretary
Dag Hatnmarskjold.
Mr.. Hammarskjold stayed
away from the opening night
of New York's Met
ropolitan Opera to continue his
consultations. Mr.. Lodge left
the opera in the middle of the
to relay the United
request for the Council
TO Mr.. Cornut- Gentille.
president Of the 1l-nation group
this month. Later the Ameri-
can delegate met with Sir
Pierson and Mr.. Hammarskjold.
The Council already had been
to meet this afternoon
for a third session Of debate on
previous charges by Jordan and
Israel blaming each other for
recent attacks across their COM
mon border. But the startling
military action across the Egyp-
tan frontier pushed the Israeli
Jordan troubles into the back
ground.
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10 normal. Many are lkely UC
return to their foreign resi-
denceS. Otherwise, they prob
ably will move on to places out
side the Middle East.
The United States State De-
partment urged Americans in
nonessential positions to get out
of Israel, Syria. Jordan and
Egypt. They have not yet been
advised to leave Lebanon. There
are some 5000 Americans in the
four countries.
Some 400 American women
and children were moving into
Beirut from Syria and Jordan.
Mostly families of men with
United States Diplomatic and
relief missions, they were rushed
from those areas by planes and
automobiles.
Land at Athens
A group of 81 American citi-
zens landed at Athens aboard a
United States military transport
from Tel Aviv. They are rela-
tives of United States operations
mission members. A second group
was expected later today.
An authoritative American
source in Athens said the United
States Embassy there was ask
ing the Greek government to
allow the entry into Greece of
1000 American evacuees. This
source said the total number of
Americans expected to be evac-
uated from the Middle East was
estimated at 5000.
Cairo's airport was closed to
international traffic but Un ted
States authorities there pushed
ahead with preparations to air.
lift American wives and children
out of the Egyptian capital to
Rome. Children and pregnant
women were given first priority.
A Trans World Airline spokes-
man in Rome said three planes
were in Athens ready to move
Americans from Cairo but added,
They will not be released to
Cairo until we are sure they can
proceed safely"
Freighter Stands BY
United States Embassy spokes-
men in Tel Aviv said the Ameri-
can freighter Exermont had been
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81 British Women
Quit Cairo for TripoIi

CAIRO. Oct. 80 (P).-Thirty-
two British women-including
the wife of Sin Humphrey Trevel-
yam, the British Ambassador
and 10 American dependents left
today aboard a British European
plane for Tripoli.
They have been evacuated
from Egypt because of the tense
Middle East situation.
Cairo's international airport
still is closed, but an exception
was made for the British Euro
Ipean plane because it arrived
here yesterday before the close
down order was issued.
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U. 5. Food for Hungary
Arrives in Vienna

Vienna, Oct. 80 (P).-The
United States Embassy in Vi
emma today announced the ar
rival of more. than half of 1000
tons of gift food from the United
States for Hungary and said the
rest is on the way. Two Ameri-
can planes also were bringing
10000 walls of penicillin supplied
by the American Red Cross.
A British airlift of food and
medicine went into its second
day. Sixty-five tons Of British
supplies arrived in Vienna yes
terday and 81 tons were due
today.
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IL. 5. Sixth Fleet
Waits Orders in
Mediterranean
BY the Associated Press

The United States 9Th Fleet
today was reported poised to
help evacuate Americans or sup
port any United Nations action
in the embattled area of Egypt
and Israel.
Major units of the fleet left
Turkish and Greek ports Sunday
night. Today they were report
ed cruising between Crete and
Cyprus, from $50 to 300 miles
from the Mediterranean end OF
the Suez Canal.
Ready for Anything
Authoritative sources said the
fleet, which includes two large
aircraft carriers, two cruisers,
about 20 destroyers and a rein
forced Marine battalion, is
under orders to be ready to take
part in moving American ma
ltionals from Egypt and Israel.
These officials pointed out
that Egypt's action in closing
the Cairo International Airport
had spurred efforts to get per-
mission to use military aircraft
or surface vessels to evacuate
Americans from the threatened
areas.
The already powerful 9Th
Fleet may be joined in a few
days by a hunter-killer group
which late yesterday interrupted
a scheduled four-day visit to
the Netherlands to sail for an
undisclosed destination.
Informed quarters said this
naval group. which includes the
carrier Antietam, six destroyers,
two submarines and one tanker,
will join the forces already in
the Mediterranean.
The hunter-killer group No.
y was originally scheduled to
visit Allied countries for the pur-
pose of demonstrating American
antisubmarine techniques.
Looking for Airliner
Authoritative military sources
said it is possible that smaller
ships Of the 9th Fleet, operating
well ahead of the main force,
may come into contact with an
Egyptian naval fiotilla reported
yesterday to be off the coast of
Israel in the area of Haifa.
United States military reports.
however, tended to take some
military significance out of the
movement of the Egyptian ships.
American sources were told that
the Egyptians were at sea look
ing for an Egyptian military
transport that disappeared yes
terday in the Eastern-most Med
iterranean.
Informed quarters said 9Th
Fleet units, if requested by the
Egyptians, would lend a hand
in the search operations.
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ASA oCA army NAACA VI OtdIA
night and advanced at least rs
miles into Egyptian territory
Israel said the expeditions pur-
pose was to clean out bases OF
Egyptian commandos who have
been raiding into Israel.
The first word of air activity
came from Tel Aviv. An official
there said Egyptian fighter
planes had attacked Israeli
trops in the Sinai, strafed an
Israeli convoy in Israel's adjoin-
ing Negeb Desert. causing some
casualties, and shot down a small
Israeli military obser va ito n
plane.
! A military spokesman in Tel
Aviv said the army had asked
Premier David Ben-Gurion's gov
eminent to order the Israeli air
force into action in retaliation.
| A war scare spread around the
world. and Western diplomats re-
acted quickly.
The Arab nations surrounding
Israel all have said they would
regard an attack against one as
an attack against all. raising the
threat of a general renewal of the
Il948 Palestine war.
Iraq Gives Warning
The Iraq foreign minister
warned the United States and
British ambassadors and the
French charge d'affaires that
Iraq would go to war with Israel
unless the attack on Egypt was
halted.
Jordan's tip government and
military officials met hurriedly
but a Jordan army spokesman
said no request had been re-
ceived yet from Egypt for aid.
Syria and Jordan have put their
military forces under all Egyp-
tan commander for defense
against Israel, an action Israel
Igave as one of its reason for
'mobilizing its military reserves
last weeF end.
The push into Egypt was
Launched by two Israeli columns,
striking through the Egyptian
border villages Of FL Kunti1la and
Ras en- Naaeb. Ras en- Mach
is 10 miles and FL Kuntilla 40
miles north of the Jordan port
of Aquaba.
Aimed at Commando Bases
The official announcement said
the operations purpose was to
wipe out the bases of Arab COM
mandos (fedayeen) who make
hit-run attack into Israel.
The route the Israelis chose
was one that Jews trekked thou
sands Of years ago on their way
to the promised land.
The Sinai Peninsula is a bar
rem waste OF sand inhabited only
by nomads. But for centuries it
has been an important corridor
linking Egypt with Asia. The
east central area penetrated by
/ the Israeli columns lies fiat. cut
by gullies.
! 1t is 1870 miles from Israel's
border to the Suez Canal.
Called TOO Small for War"
Israels recent military activ-
ity has been confined to hit-run
attacks into neighboring Arab
countries in what it termed re-
taliation for Arab inflltration
into Israel.
A high Israeli source described
the Sinai operation as too big
for reprisal but too small for
war"
Asked II the operation was
bound up with the Suez Canal,
an official Israeli spokesman
said. Il Just don't know"
Israel has protested repeatedly
that Egypt is preventing its ships
from using the canal.
It also claims that Egyptian
enmmsndos stepped up their ac-
tivities IN Israel during the past
two weeks. In the past seven
days, the Israeli Foreign Min
istry said. fedayeen-planted
mines have caused - Israeli cas-
ualties.
I Israel announced what II
called q partial mobilization" Of
is military reserves Sunday. say
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that il the fighting got into the
air it would tip the balance to-
ward about war. The Egyptian
air force lately has been REIN
forced by the arrival Of Soviet
jet fighters and bombers. The
Israeli air force has French jets.
Israeli's 1.8 million population
faced a blackout tonight.
1t was the Cairo newspaper AL
Messaa which reported Col.
Nasser had ordered general
mobilization. There was no gov
eminent confirmation.
Washington estimates are that
10000 to 100000 Israelis had
been called up. Israel is believed
capable Of mobilizing an army
Of about 100000.
Egypt, according to the esti-
mates Of outsiders. might be able
TO mobilize 100000 men.
No Casualty Figures
So far neither side had pub
lished any casualties in the
fighting.
Egyptian spokesman gave no
indication Of the size Of the air
force sent into action in Sinai,
or whether any Of the planes
we're Jet fighters recently ac-
quired from Soviet arsenals.
In the midst Of the Middle
East war threat Syrian Presi-
dent Shukhri Kuwatly left
Damascus by plane on a sched-
uled To-day state visit to the
Soviet Union.
He told officers seeing him
of. II hope you viii teach
Israel a severe lesson"
In a diplomatic aside to the
general situation Egypt protested
to Britain against the fight Of
two canberra jet bombers over
the Suez Canal area.
The protest followed reports
from Port Said that Egyptian
antiaircraft guns had opened
FIRE on unidentified planes high
over the seaport.
. Columns Gross Border
Two mechanical Israeli coll
umng crossed the border last
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Comparative Values

AUGUSTA, Me.-In feed value
for livestock 100 pounds of
potatoes equals 100 pounds of
corn silage, % pounds of shelled
corn or 35 pounds of alfalfa hay.
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Britain and France Plan
Move to Occupy Suez
Continued From First PAGE

Continued From First Page
erected in the Syrian capital
and civil defense exercises were
ordered there and in Aleppo
Military spokesman at Tel Aviy
announced the capture of the
Egyptian position of Qusaima,
about 10 miles inside the Egyp-
tan border and about Is miles
southwest of the Ell Auja demil-
itarized border area.
Strike on 7O-Mile Front
This action indicated the Is
Yaelis had struck at points scat
tered over a 70-mile front in
their invasion of Egypt yesterday.
Earlier a two-pronged attack
from Kuntilla and the head of
the Gulf Of Aqaba. far to the
south. had been reported with
out confirmation to have driven
almost across the peninsula TO
within 1912 miles Of the Suez
Canal.
A communique here said
Egypt's counterattack stopped
completely" the Israeli advance.
Military sources in Tel AVN
placed the Israeli columns at 80
to so miles from the canal.
A Cairo communique said the
Egyptian air force shot down two
Israeli aircraft, destroyed ~ Is
raeli armored cars and strafed
Israeli troops.
These attacks we're said to
have taken place at FL Themed.
80 miles inside Egypt from the
Kuntills jumpof point. and
against Israeli troops before the
Egyptian position at Qusaima."
"MoppinE Up" Reported
The communlque claimed
Egyptians were engaged in
'mopping up operations in the
Sinai Peninsula.
Tel Aviv military spokesman
announced that the Israeli air
force also had gone into action
and had aNaeked Egyptian con-
voys.
Earlier. neutral diplomats in
Israel had expressed the fear
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IsroeIis May Be Forcing
Big 3 Suez Showdown
By EARL H. VOSS

Does Israel provide the United States Britain and
France with for forcing Egypt to share of
Suez Canal with them?
This question circulating Washington today as the
Israeli invasion of the Sinai desert the
Branding Israel which the United Nations
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Discovered in l77o

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was
discovered in 1879 by X. w.
Scheele. an eminent Swedish
chemist and scientist.
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Hundreds of Americans
Leave Cities in Mid-Eost

BEIRUT, LEBANON Oct 80 #1-Fear of Middle
East brought the hurried evacuation hundreds
leans from cities in the seething
Many poured into Beirut Others arrived Athens They
expected sit it few await developments following
Israe strike Egypt situation goes
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Two mechanical Israeli coll
umns crossed the border last
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United States Embassy spokes-
men in Tel Aviv said the Ameri-
can freighter Exermont had been
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