THURSDAY.
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tf, Thursday, Nov. 1 - (JP) —British and French jet bombers pounded Egypt
naval-air assault and a British cruiser has sunk an Egyptian frigate in the
These were the first fact-paced developments in the fateful assault from
»ypt in the midst of the Israeli-Egyptian conflict.
lish Admiralty said the cruiser Newfoundland sent the small Egyptian war
i n after it ignored
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Jets Used
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istry announced
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I late last night
II attacked Egyp
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In the raids.
that RAF aircr;
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using 4-jet Vic]
2-jet Canberras :
Cairo radio sa
cities, i ncl u d
jjid five Egyptian
in g Cairo, were
i|tish denied Cairo
bombed. The Bri|
was blasted.
The British-Fnench joint com
mand assault was aimed at seiz
ing the Suez Cajnal and had the
announced purpose of stopping an
Israeli-Egyptian war.
Sinking-of the Egyptian frigate
by the 8,800-ton British cruiser,
•was the first naval engagement
announced by the British.
The whole British-French oper
ation began Wednesday at 6:40
p.m. Cairo time—ll:4o a.m. EST.
Losses Not Mentioned.
The Air Ministry statement
mentioned neither opposition nor
losses. Compared with World War
II bomber attacks, it was not a
large operation, a spokesman said.
He -declined to say how many
planes took part but said the
bombers went out individually in
darkness to drop high explosive
bombs.
Cairo raido said the capital and
four cities in the Suez Canal zone
’were hit by British jets and that
seven persons were killed in Cairo.
The British denied Cairo was
bombed.
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IBER 1. 1956
Red Troops Leave
Hungarian Capital
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 31 (IP) —Most of the Rus
sian troops cleared out of Budapest today and exuberant
nationalists concentrated their fire again on Communist
Premier Imre Nagy’s government.
“Out with the government of murders!” chanted a
crowd of 2,000 demonstrators in
Kossuth Square outside Parlia
ment, which only yesterday was
packed with Soviet armor.
Nagy, who has promised free
elections and other reforms,
talked with them in vain. His re
gime clearly does not command
national confidence.
Communist Heads Flee
Radio Budapest tonight report
ed former Hungarian Communist
party, chief Ernoe Geroeand for
mer Premier Andras Hegedues,
both toppled by the anti-Red re
volt, have left the country.
It is assumed they have fled to
the' Soviet Union.- In Hungary
they face punishment at the hands
of the rebels.
The radio also said the govern
ment had sent a note to Moscow
demanding Soviet delegates be
named to confer with Hungarian
officials on complete withdrawal
of Russian troops from the entire
country.
Threats Spur Retreat
Bombardment threats by the
Hungarian air force spurred the
Soviet retreat. By dusk most of
the Russian military units had
vanished.
Through littered streets that
also saw the triumphant return
of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty,
Russian tank columns clanked
from the battlefields of a Red
cause that was lost.
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Social Security
Age for Women
Lowered Today
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (/P)—
Women become eligible for their
social security retirement benefits
at the age of 62, instead of 65, be
ginning tomorrow.
The Department of Health. Edu
cation and Welfare, which ad
ministers the huge social security
system, reported that 311,000
women had filed claims under the
new law by Oct. 18. An estimated
850,000 women are eligible for the
earlier retirement benefits.
The first government checks to
women-retiring at ages 62, 63, or
64 will be in the mails early in
December, the department said.
Men must still wait until 65 be
: fore drawing their benefits. But
■ beginning next July 1 any man or
: women eligible for social security
may receive full retirement bene
fits at age 50 or older if they be
; come permanently disabled,
i Congress voted the changes at
its last session. President Eisen
hower opposed lowering the re
tirement age for women but
signed the legislation.
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General Assembly
Called Into Session
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 31 (tf) The Security
.Council overrode British and French objections tonight and
called the UN General Assembly into extraordinary session
to halt the fighting in Egypt.
The council vote was 7 to 2.
Joining the United States and the Soviet Union in calling
for the special session under the
"uniting for peace” plan were
Yugoslavia, Cuba, Peru, Nation
alist China and Iran.
Franc*. Britain Opposed
France and Britain voted
against it. Belgium and Australia
abstained.
The permanent delegates of the
76 UN members under this action
will be called into session witnin
hours to take up the Middle East
crisis.
Britain and France fought the
move to the end with a series of
objections and declarations that
its adoption would have the
“gravest consequences.”
As they spoke British and
French planes were carrying out
raids against military targets in
Egypt.
Western Partnership Split
The United States, which split
from its Western partners yester
day*. in disagreement over using
force in Egypt, approved the plan,
put before the council by Joza
Brilej of Yugoslavia. U.S. Dele
gate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. said
the United States believe every
resource should be exhausted for
peace.
Sir Pierson Dixon, Britain ob
jected the resolution calling for
the Assembly was out of order hut
was voted down. Only Australia,
Belgium, France and Britain sup
ported this procedural move.
Cuba, Iran, Peru, the Soviet
Union, Yugoslavia and the United
States voted against Dixon's ob
jection. Nationalist China ab
stained.
Bomber Crashes, Burns
RIVERSIDE. Calif., Oct. 31 UP)
A 847 bomber crashed and
burned at March Air Force Base
today but a fast working fire
crash crew, wearing asbestos
suits, were able to get the four
crew members out of the wreck
age alive.
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Adlai Hopes
Ike Stays
From East
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 UP)—Ad
lai E. Stevenson tonight tele
graphed President Dwight D.
Eisenhower that he hopes the
President is not “going to commit
the United States to the hasty
use of armed forces” in the Mid
dle East.
The telegram was released at
LaGuardia.Airport shortly before
the Democratic presidential can
didate left for Pittsburgh where
he had a speech scheduled for
tonight
He issued the text of the wire
before President Eisenhower went
on the air to explain the United
States policy. Eisenhower pledged
“no United States involvement”
in Middle East fighting.
Press secretary Clayton Fritch
ey said that Stevenson wound up
a busy round of New York speech
es and went directly to work on
the telegram to Eisenhower.
Earlier, Steevnson said in a
New York speech that President
Eisenhower’s foreign policy has
"misled us and our friends alike”
and must "bear a heavy respon
sibility for the crisis in the Mid
dle East.”
The Demo cratic presidential
candidate said:
“In its conduct in the Middle
East the Eisenhower-Dulles ad
ministration has been consistent
in one respect only—it has not
told us the truth.”
This is the strongest statement
he has made since the start of the
Israeli-Egyptian conflict.
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