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Massing of Troops, Evacuations, Indictments

Israel Faced With New Threats:
Trials in Syria, Arrests in Egypt

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Bears for Israel:

El Al Israel Airl;oz's Hos-
tess Joyce Perlman totes an ample supply of raisin kiread to
feed the Cahadian bear at Idlewi(d Airport just before he
and his two mates were placed aboard an El Al plane bound
for Tel Aviv. Three bears and two beavers were sent by the
Toronto Zoo to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. The gift repre-
sents an exchange between Dr. N. D. Scollard, director of
the Toronto Zoo, and Dr. Aharon Shulov, director of the
JerUsalem Zoo. Israel is flying a shipment of typical Israeli
wild-life to the Canadian Zoo.

TEL AVIV—Syria intends to bring to trial the four surviving members of an Israel
patrol captured and imprisoned by Syrian Troops last December, Syria's representative
on the Israel-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission announced Monday night at an emer-
gency meeting of the MAC. The fifth member of the patrol, Pvt. Uri Ilan, committed
suicide in a solitary confinement cell of a Damascus prison last week.
The Syrian representative, Lt. Col. Bachri Kutrash, said that the court will decide
whether, under the terms of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war,
the four Israelis can be tried.
Meanwhile, the United Nations chairman of the MAC,- Canadian Col. J. Costanguay,
has not replied to a demand by the Israelis for an emergency session of the MAC to
consider the treatment of the four prisoners. He has been unable to conduct an investi-
gation of the conditions of the four, owing to Syrian opposition to the inquiry. He says
that he must await a decision by UN Truce Chief, Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, on whether
to reconvene the MAC.
Major reinforcements of Syrian troops are being poured into the Syrian positions
along the Jordan River opposite Israel.
The Syrian troop concentrations were seen as a reply to the Israel charges that
the Israel soldiers held by the Syrians since last December had not been treated in
accordance with the terms of the Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners of war,
and to the Israel demand for an investigation of the charges.
The reports said that civilians on the Syrian side of the demilitarized area had been
evacuated. Syrian sentries were reported to be stopping even United Nations cars in the
area and checking the personnel in them.
Radio Damascus, in an apparent attempt to counteract the effect of the Israel
charges, broadcast recordings of short interviews with the four Israel soldiers remain-
ing alive in Syrian hands. During the interviews, carried. on in Hebrew, each of the
prisoners said that he was well and asked for such things as books and clothing.
Meanwhile, Pvt. Ilan was buried with full military honors at his home kibbutz, Gan
Shmuel, near Hadera, in the presence of the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Army's
Chief.Chaplain and numerous delegations from settlements. The dead soldier is sur-
vived . by a brother and sister, as well as by his father and mother. His mother, Feiga
liana, is a prominent member of the Mapam party and was a representative in the
first Israel Parliament.
Brig. Moshe Dayan, the Chief of Staff, in eulogizing Pvt. Ilan, said that the army
cannot assure the life of its soldiers, but with soldiers the life of the state and army
was assured. Shortly after the body of the young soldier was returned to Israel a post
mortem examination was performed at the Tel Hashomer hospital. The funeral pro-
cession left the hospital in a large convoy, preceded by Army dispatch riders.
Brig. Dayan has demanded of the' United Nations chairman of the Israel-Syrian
Mixed Armistice Commission that the remaining four soldiers be informed of Ilan's
fate, and that all of them be released at the earliest possible date. Results of an examin-
ation of Ilan's body in prison, as well as an examination by a Dr. Mochi of the World
Health Organization, are to be made public shortly, according to reports from Syria..

Seven More Jews Indicted in Egypt

LONDON—Seven Jews, one a woman, were indicted Tuesday in Cairo for alleged
"Communist activities" by the department of state security and turned over to a mili-
tary court for trial. -
The department alleged that the Jewish group served as a link in a Communist
conspiracy in Egypt and abroad. It asked that the seven be sentenced to life at hard
labor for their role in "Jewish Communist subversive activities."

;Eisenhower Asks Aid for Israel in 1956

Finds Polio Test:

Dr. Jonas E. Salk, of
University of PittsburRh, reads results of new polio color
test developed in his laboratory under a March of Dimes
grant. Color system determines .presence of polio virus and
level of polio-fighting antibodies in human blood. New test
is faster than older method, using roller drum, shown at
right. Both systems are being used in the evaluation of the
Salk polio vaccine, which also was developed under research
grants from March of Dimes funds.

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—President Eisenhower, in his budget - message for 1956,
called on Congress to approve a continuation of foreign aid and specified Israel among
countries for which he will request funds in the fiscal year 1956. It was indicated that
foreign aid will be less than was granted in the previous fiscal year.
The President said: "In the Middle East and Africa, we have provided some grant
and loan assistance to promote economic development and political stability, and will re-
quest funds to continue this type of assistance in the fiscal year 1956. This assistance has
gone to Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Libya."
In a review of international affairs, the President did not refer specifically to Arab-
Israel tension but did say that the Executive Department was "placing emphasis on
revision of our several international programs to give appropriate attention to the impor-
tant trouble spots around the world today."
Commenting on the military assistance program, Mr. Eisenhower mentioned the
Near East as an area to receive military aid. "Direct forces support will continue to be
a significant part of the Mutual Security program for so long as the security of the free
world requires that large forces be maintained in Asia and the Near East," he said
The President expressed confidence that the Emergency Refugee Act of 1953 will
be successfully implemented before its expiration date. The Act provides for admission
of 214,000 persons beyond the regular immigration quotas before December 31, 1956.
Approximately 17,000 visas have been granted to date.
Mr. Eisenhower recommended continued U.S. support to those programs and inter-
national agencies through which funds have been made available for relief, rehabilita-
tion, and resettlement of escapees, refugees and other special groups. These agencies in-
clude the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, and the * United Nations
agencies for Palestine refugees,

