Israel Seeks Emergency Meeting of Armistice Body to Check Egypt

The flare-up on the Israel-Egyptian frontier which started yesterday with sporadic firing from Egyptian positions at Israeli positions today prompted the Israel Government to demand an emergency meeting of the Israel-Egyptian Mixed Armistice Commission.

One Israeli soldier was killed today when his army car struck an Egyptian landmine about two kilometers from the Gaza strip demarcation line outside Israel. One Egyptian was killed and two were captured when an Egyptian patrol penetrated into the Beersheba area, in the Negev. The three Egyptians were armed with submachine guns and carried documents revealing that they were on an espionage mission.

United Nations truce chief Gen. E. L. M. Burns arrived today in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials on the Egyptian Israeli border situation which is continuously deteriorating. At the same time, it was announced over the Cairo radio that King Saud of Saudi Arabia flew today to Cairo to join Egyptian and Syrian leaders in a strategy conference to determine whether there is to be peace or war between the Arab countries and Israel. The meeting will discuss recent developments involving the Jordanian Arab Legion.

A commentator for Jordan’s All-Arab Radio last night called the ousted Lt. Gen. John Bagot Glubb, of the Arab Legion, “a guardian and defender of the Jews” and “a Maginot line for them” He asserted Glubb was responsible for the development of the Jewish State and had “reduced the Arab Legion to an outfit for parades instead of maintaining it as a striking force.” The Jordanian press today warned Britain against ending the subsidy for the Arab Legion, stating that the subsidy was really “rent” for the British air bases in Jordan.