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Allon Warns Egypt on Suez Canal Attacks;
UN Observers Say Arab Troops Are to Blame

According to Israeli officials,
the three Egyptian artillery at-
tacks in the last four days ap-
peared to have been intended to
soften Israeli fortifications along
the Suez Canal's east bank and
to create the impression that the
Middle East was on the verge
of new all-out war.
Allon said Tuesday night that if
Allon spoke in a radio interview the Egyptians "have decided to
disrupt
our fortification work, they
following a third day of fierce ar-
tillery tank, mortar and small arms missed their chance because we
are
well
fortified." He said- efforts
exchanges across the waterway in
which each side claimed to have to dislodge Israeli forces from the
canal would be fruitless and warn-
inflicted heavy casualties and dam-
ed that Israeli artillery could
ages on the other. A military strike a variety of vital targets in
spokesman announced that one Is-
raeli soldier was fatally wounded
and three otheis slightly injured
in the barrage. He said Israeli re-
turn fire had scored direct hits
on the three Egyptian ships at
TEL AVIV — A Soviet note of
Port Ibrahim on the Gulf of Suez,
capsizing one of them, and that condolence to the Egyptian govern-
ment,
broadcast by Cairo Radio
four Egyptian tanks were smashed,
10 anti-tank guns hit and several Tuesday, has confirmed Israel's
suspicions that Egypt's chief of
munitions dumps blown up.
staff, Lt. Gen. Abdel Moneim Riad,
United Nations cease-fire ob- was not the only high-ranking
servers confirmed Israel's charge Egyptian officer killed during
that Tuesday's shelling, like that Sunday's artillery duel across the
of Saturday and Sunday, was be- Suez Canal. The Soviet note, signed
gun by Egypt. Israeli sources said by the Russian defense minister,
the Egyptians three times ignored expressed the sympathy of Soviet
a cease fire call by the UN ob- armed forces for the death of
servers. Israel heeded the calls but "Gen. Riad and a number of other
was forced to reopen fire when the commanders in the line of duty."
Egyptians continued shooting.
It asked that the Cairo government

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV — Acting Prime
Minister Yigal Allon warned Egypt
Tuesday to•end its aggression along
the Suez Canal or Israel would
"take measurse of the kind we
have already employed and some
hitherto unused."

Egypt in retaliation for any Egyp-
tian blow.
Allon also remarked that he did
not consider Israel's fortification
of its Suez Canal positions to be a
violation of the cease-fire agree-
ment and noted that the Egyptians
hive fortified and still are strength-
ening their positions on the canal's
west bank.
(The semi-official Cairo news-
paper Al Ahram said Wednesday
that Egyptian forces were trying
to break up a possible Israeli in-
vasion attempt. According to the
paper, Israel was concentrating
troops and armour near Mitla
Pass, about 30 miles east of Port

*

'Riad Not Only Officer Killed'

convey the condolences to the
"bereaved families."
Gen. Riad was killed by tank
fire from across the 150-yard-wide
canal while inspecting Egyptian
artillery positions at Ismailia early
Sunday morning. He was given a
hero's funeral in Cairo Monday.
The official announcement of his
death made no mention of other
casualties, but Israeli officers said
Gen. Riad must have been accom-
panied by several headquarters
staff officers as he undoubtedly
would not have gone on an inspec-
tion tour alone.

Suez, for a possible attack on
Egypt.
Cairo spokesmen claimed that
Egyptian gunners killed "scores"
of Israeli soldiers Tuesday and de-
stroyed five Israeli helicopters, 22
tanks, numerous armored vehicles,
machinegun nets, and motor bat-
teries.)
Israel officials said Egyptian
casualties were "heavy" and said
the Egyptian high command was
trying to conceal that fact from the
public. They said Tuesday's artil-
lery duel was preceded by an
Egyptian machine gun attack on
Israeli sappers dismantling mines
planted by Egyptian commandos
near the small Bitter Lake. Israeli
units returned the fire and sudden-
ly Egyptian big guns were brought
into action all along the canal. The
exchange lasted 31/2 hours. Firing
ended at 7:30 p.m. local time.

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire

to The Jewish News)

Mrs. Meir visited the president
to accept his letter of appointment
as specified by Israeli law. Shazar
noted that eight political factions
commanding 106 votes in the 120-
member chamber had agreed to
endorse a cabinet headed by her.
He added the hope that a peace

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14—Friday, March 14, 1969

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Mrs. Meir indicated that there
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National Religious Party. Later
she would meet with representa-
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Israel's interim prime minister,
Mrs. Golda Meir, visits the grave
of the late Premier Levi Eshkol
in Jerusalem.

Party and the Poalei Agudat
Israel.
Mrs. Meir said that the large
parliamentary majority prepar-
ed to vote its confidence in the
next cabinet demonstrated Is-
raeli's consciousness of the need
for national unity. She also ex-
pressed the hope that peace with
the Arab countries would come
in the near future.
A former foreign minister of
Israel and once this country's am-
bassador to Moscow, Mrs. Meir had
retired from public life though she
remained a powerful figure in the
inner circles of Israel's dominant
Labor 'Party.
It was the Labor Party leader-
ship which selected her to succeed
Mr. Eshkol. She was regarded as
the only political personality cap-
able of forestalling a bitter inter-
party struggle for the succession
between Israel's popular defense
minister, Gen. Moshe Dayan, and
deputy Prime Minister Yigal
Allon, who served as acting prime
minister from Mr. Eshkol's death
to Mrs. Meir's appointment Tues-
day. Mrs. Meir is expected to hold
the premiership at least until Is-
rael's national elections Oct. 28.
Labor Party, circles expressed
the hope Tuesday that Mrs. Meir
could present her new cabinet to
the Knesset for approval by Thurs-
day.
But differences must be worked
out between the Labor Party and
Gahal, the Herut Liberal Party
alignment which is the second larg-
est faction in the coalition govern-
ment.
Gahal insists that the govern-
ment's basic platform document
be redrafted to reflect the ca-
binet's decision that the present
cease-fire lines remain Israeli
boundaries until a peace treaty
is signed with the Arabs.
The document is the contractual
agreement on which the cabinet
bases itself when it seeks the Knes-
set's confidence. In its present
form, it refers only to the armistice
lines which existed prior to the
June 1967 Six-Day War.
Labor Party leaders have sug-
gested that it remain as is and that
the changes demanded by Gahal
be made orally in a statement to
the Knesset by the prime minister
designate.
A cabinet committee represent-
ing the full coalition has been set
up to deal with the dispute.

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