The Jordan-controlled Radio Ramallah announced tonight that Jordanian tanks and heavy equipment were being brought into the Old City of Jerusalem tomorrow to counter the arrival in new Jerusalem of Israeli troops and equipment to participate in an Independence Day parade.
The official communique read over Radio Ramallah said that Jordanian Premier Samir Rifai had informed United Nations truce chief Maj. Gen. Carl C. von Horn of the Jordanian decision and that the Jordan Government had registered with Dr. Francisco Urrutia during his last visit here a protest against the Israeli action.
This sudden turn on Jordan’s part filled Israeli authorities with dismay, since they had given the UN truce set-up here ample advance notice of its intended actions and had not been told of any objections. Even the Jordanian communique today admitted that Gen. von Horn had told the Jordanians, in reply to their last minute protest, that he understood the Israeli equipment was being brought to Jerusalem for decorative, not offensive, purposes. He was unable to intervene, he told the Arabs, because the Israeli action was standard practice which had hitherto not been contested.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops continued combing the dunes north of Migdal today for Arab marauders who seriously wounded an Israeli civilian, Itzhak Izack, a recent immigrant. Mr. Izack had been hired by a Migdal woman to bring hay from her field to a distant barn. She and her two children were in the wagon with Mr. Izack when two marauders sprang from the dunes and shot the immigrant, but spared the woman and children.
An Israeli patrol near Beit Naballah in the Lydda area captured one of four Jordanian soldiers who were found on Israel soil. The other three managed to escape. The captive was carrying a Jordanian Army rifle and ammunition.
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