Members of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission and police and army officers responsible for the border regions of both countries met today to consider measures to bring about more effective control of the border regions, an official communique announced here.
In addition, it was decided that all stolen cattle and other property seized after February 17 would be returned this week-end. The meeting expressed satisfaction with the sharp decline in-infiltration and border incidents in the past fortnight and also hoped that the new measures agreed upon today would further improve the situation. Meanwhile, Israeli sources refused to confirm or deny a report that Arab marauders tampered with the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv telephone wires last week-end, causing an interruption in service.
U.N. Truce Chief William E. Riley, who is leaving Hadassah Hospital this week after a successful kidney operation, has not yet received an opinion from the U.N. Legal Department on the Egyptian blockade of Israel-bound vessels at the Suez Canal, it was learned in U.N. circles today.
(In the British Parliament today Foreign Undersecretary Ernest Davies expressed the hope that the entire Palestine armistice supervision problem will be reviewed shortly when the U.N. Security Council considers the report of the Mixed Armistice Commissions. He made his statement during a discussion of the recent Israeli-Jordan border “incidents.”)
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