The Egyptian Government will continue to bar oil tankers bound for Israel from passing through the Suez Canal, Foreign Minister Mohahmed Saleh el Din Pasha said last night in Cairo, press dispatches reported. The Egyptian Government, he added, has drafted replies on this question to protests emanating from the American, British and Norwegian governments.
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