While the remains of Lt. Col. George A. Flint, United Nations chairman of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, who was killed during a shooting fray on Mt. Scopus last week, were being buried today at a British military cemetery in Ismailia, near the Suez Canal, Jordanians made a new attempt to penetrate the Israeli enclave on the height. According to an Israeli spokesman, the Israeli guards on Mt. Scopus today spied a number of Arabs trying to enter the Israeli zone, and fired a number of shots. The Arabs fled.
(At the United Nations, this week-end, the Israel delegation circulated to all members of the Security Council a copy of the statement about the Mt. Scopus incident, made in Israel’s Parliament last week by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. The delegation did not ask the Council to hold a meeting on the issue. )
A United Nations team today completed its investigation of last week’s fatal Mt. Scopus incident which cost the lives of four Israeli policemen as well as the life of Col. Flint. Joseph Tekoah, director of the Armistice Affairs Division in Israel’s Foreign Ministry, who had requested that the Mixed Armistice Commission permit him to attend meetings on the inquiry group being held on Mt. Scopus, was turned down on the grounds the United Nations could not guarantee his safety.
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