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Egypt Promises to Permit Red Cross to Visit Captured Israelis

October 9, 1957
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The Red Cross delegate in Egypt has reported assurances from Egyptian authorities that he will soon be permitted to visit the six fishermen seized with the Israel fishing ship Doron and held since in Egypt. Dr. Maurice Thudicum, the delegate, informed the International Red Cross office here of the Egyptian promise.

It was also disclosed here that the Egyptians have refused to reveal the place of detention of the fishermen or to permit them to send the usual Red Cross messages to their families since the seizure on September 25 in the Mediterranean Sea. Dr. Thudicum was reported to have informed the Red Cross office here that, according to Egyptian assurances, the fishermen, one of them an Italian, were in good physical condition and receiving humane treatment in accordance with the Geneva convention.

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