Another Egyptian was killed when Egyptian Police and Terrorists attacked a British Army 
building also, in Port Said.  There were no British casualties. 

The British at the time were evacuating the Building under the Plan  to clear  the Cities, of Port Said
Ismalia, and Suez of British Troops. 
 

At last our almost limitless patience  has been exhausted by civil and police treachery and the murder of British Servicemen.   For nearly 24 hrs the local population has been expecting a show of Brtiish strength.They had been warned and the force would be met  with force..  But they could not have anticipated anything like this.  It has shocked them in to utter silence and submission - for the time being. 

Now a Brigade of Red devils  - The 16th Independent parachute Brigade - is in possition among the  maze of streets on the Western outskirts of the Town, where earlier this week, gun battles were fought and British servicemen were killed and wounded.   Rifles, Bren guns,  heavy Trench Mortars and Vickers machine guns point menacingly from the flat rooftops  over the hushed streets .   British tanks and radio cars are on the outskirts ready for any eventuality. 

RAF Auster reconn planes and jet fighters  are swinging low over  the buildings. Royal Engineers with armoured and other Bulldozers are battering down whole blocks of houses. some solid and others mud huts and an elaborate of three stories. Some were dynamited.   It was from these buildings , until this morning the homes of 1500 people that British vehicles were sniped at and bombs thrown, and in them now before they are pounded to rubble, are found spent and live ammunition and unexploded bombs and grenades.  Doubtless to take more  British lives.  The necessity for holding it is painfiully clear. 

On it a great part of the Garrison camped out in the Desert largely depends for a water supply.   So serious has the position become during the past few chaotic days  that last night the British military hospital  in Suez ran completely out of drinking water.   For several days  during which it has been safe to approach the isolated plant only in armoured  vehicles the local commanders have tried to persuade the Egyptian Governor of Suez and the local police to clear the area and agree on establishing a safe entry route for British vehicles. 

It is no use hiding the fact that British soldiers in the area, infuriated by terrorist attacks,to which they have been allowed to reply only with "MINIMUM FORCE" and wearied by long weeks of waiting behind barbed wire out among the Sand dunes cheered the news. 

It is no use pretending that they did not go in this morning spoilingt for a fight or that  they are not bitterly disappointed  to-night at the absence of even token resistance.   They are not Warmongers these, by any stretch of the imagination, but they don't like having to take it all  the time without the chance of dishing it out.  They are only human.  and so by night down the desert road thundered the  parachute brigade and all its ancillary units Centurian and Sherman Tanks  armoured and other  bulldozers the radio cars and the vast mobile chranes and the rest. 

As dawn came up over the bay of Suez the sandy plain outside the town was a glorious sight.   From the sheer looming mass of the Ataqa  mountains on the one side in a shallow arc around to the green ribbon of date palms along the Suez Canal on the other,  there were British Soldiers and their sandy yellow painted vehicles. 

Behind us were encamped another 2,000 or so men of the Buffs and Royal Sussex. Soon after 5.30 we moved off . A solitary RAF Auster circulating above the buildings was the only  sign of life ahead of us.  As the Bull dozers and tanks moved in ahead of us to demolish the buildings  and Engineers to put a bailey bridge across the Canal I went further into the town and watched operations from the roof of a high building. But of resistance  of the promised force to meet our force there was no sign. 

Perhaps a paratroop major had the right idea Looking around him at the bristling firearms he said.   "They say the Egyptian terrorists are opportunists, and if I were  an Egyprian terrorist, this certainly would not be my idea of  a good opportunity" 

Sister Anthony, teacher of little chyildren, who was shot dead in the convent of St Vincent de Paul here, was murdered by Egyptian thugs who afterwards ran along a corridor shouting in Arabic,  "We've got the daughter of a dog" 

At the height of a day-long battle with British Troops, yesterday the thugs broke into the convent to use it as a vantage point.   In the basement nuns and children were singing for hours to drown the noise of battle. 

Tonight as Sister anthony, 52, American born, lay clasping a rosary, nuns told me that , when the trouble started yesterday,  Sister Anthony rang the British Garrison saying "For God sake send us help".   Thugs they said, heard the call and menaced three of the nuns with their revolvers, warning them, "We don't want to harm you but to fight the British".   Ten minutes later British tanks were heard at the bridge  just opposite the convent.   It was then that Sister Anthony uttered her last known words "What luck, here they are" and rushed to the door.   I was told that two thugs entered through the back door of the convent and shouted "Are you Sister Anthony?"  and when she said "Yes" they shot her. 

Sister Anthony is to be buried in the British Garrison Cemetery  on Tuesday. A British Army Bugler will sound the Last post.   Mr Johnson the US Consul said the murder was certain to have important repercussions . He will make a report on his investigation to the US Embassy in Cairo. 

During the war Sister Anthony was teaching in London at the mother house of the order  of St Vincent de Paul at Mill Hill and also at the orders school in Blandford St West 1. 

The woman - an American nun, Sister Anthony- was lowered into her grave in the British Military Cemetery, by six Warrant Officers.  Buglers sounded the Last post. General Sir George Erskine saluted. Gathered around her grave were men and women of every denomination.   Among the many wreaths was  one with the simplest inscription of all: 

Earlier at the Muslim cemetery I had been watching Egyptians oozing sweat and tears as they carried cases of heavy ammunition from tombs to British 3 Ton trucks. 

" We found 50 Tons of heavy Ammo in this desecrated ground- and since the Egyptians put it there , we thought it reasonable   that they should carry it away" 

Approaching the cemetery I passed huge groups of rounded-up suspects sitting sullenly in the streets.   At the cemetery gate the most recent thug to fall into Paratroop hands stood face to the wall, a bayonet one foot behind his back. 

There we spoke to 23 - year- old Kathleen Robinson, whose home is at 321 Chapel lane, Lincoln.  Kathleen is a Clerk with NAAFI.   "Tell them not to worry at home" She said.   "We had a nasty 24 hours when things looked like getting out of hand, But once we knew what we were up against, and measures were taken to meet the situation, everything was soon under control" 

Kathleen was in one of the worst trouble-spots of all.   She works with the NAAFI FoodStore in  Ismailia, which was looted and set on fire by rioters at the very start of the trouble.   When "The Weekly News"  talked to her she was visiting Fayid for a few days "break" . 

Thirty British women and children were in the food store when the rioters broke in, shouting and pushing the British to one side.  The  ringleaders beckoned other looters in from the streets, and the British women and children took refuge in the back rooms of the building.   For  nearly an hour they huddled there  while rioters helped themselves  to 30,000 pounds worth of goods. 

In addition a Major and another soldier are missing, believed killed, in attacks by "Liberation Army" thugs and Egyptian Police .   The attacks occurred on the outskirts of Suez Town.   Most of the casualties were suffered in an ambush. Reinforcements of Royal Sussex and Buffs were rushed to the scene where the bodies of four Egyptians, three of them police-, were found.   The British took 25 prisoners, including a policeman.  Sniping was still going on in Suez last night.   British troops were out in force, and fully manned Bren-gun carriers were stationed at all key points.

General Sir George Erskine British GOC said last night. "This seems more serious than  than the last attack by Egyptian Police. Then they were panic stricken, undisciplined and lost their nerve" "Today they made a deliberate attack."   "I had believed this gangsterism was almost at an end, but now we shall have to deal severely with this outbreak" 

The "Daughters of the Nile"  the Egyptian Womens movement, whose members have just received their first lesson on how to use arms, will take part in big "Liberation Day"  marches on Wednesday in Cairo and Alexandria, cables David Walker.   Police are standing by. 

They killed an officer of the Cameron Highlanders, and a soldier when they ambushed a patrol.  Men of the Grenadier Guards were rushed  to the Cameron's aid.  A British commumunique said five terrorists were killed. The sustained gun battles , the increasingly business-like tactics of the "Liberation Army" are gradually transforming the situation into something mush nearer open warfare.

According to the note five officers and one other rank died. One other rank disappeared and three were wounded.  "It appears to be clear" it goes on "that the principal responsibility must lie with the Egyptian Authorities for their orders to police to use force in protecting the Egyptian population, who were clearly never endangered by the actions of the British troops".   "The Egyptian Police fired indiscriminately on all British personnel and vehicles, including ambulances. 

Tonight I am able to tell for the first time the story of heroism and horror that lies behind the death of two British Officers and the dramatic escape for three British women and three small children.   It is a story that for six days has gone unheralded as just another "incident" to quote the Army. It was Sunday afternoon in Ismailia.   The sun shone hotly through the eucalyptus trees fringing the broad avenues.   A British Major and his wife and two boys aged nine and seven, were sitting in their flat in a troubled quarter of the city entertaining their neighbours.   Flying officer and Mrs Henry Snelling, their son David and Mrs Henry Clegg wife of a captain in the RASC who was busy in camp . It seemed quiet outside . The women and children had been kept indoors for almost two weeks because of the rioting, so they all decided to go for a quiet stroll - to do some shopping and collect some English Newspapers, they thought some other neighbours might have.   Major Wharton, a Major in the RASC, an officer with a gallant record and two Belgian and one French  Croix de Guerre among his decorations  took with him a Sten gun secured to his waist with a new dog chain specially bought to prevent his weapon from being snatched from him.   Flying Officer Snelling  a belt with a fully loaded automatic pistol and spare ammunition.   The others went as they were.  The women wore light summer frocks and the sun-bronzed children khaki shorts and short-sleeved shirts. 

Two British Convoys  travelling in the same direction came abreast of the ambush positions and were met with bursts of Automatic and rifle fire. Bullets whipped into the trucks and the British major and Private were killed , and another soldier wounded.