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Caiititaidiialns May CIear Mintes, on Sinai Desert Border

By DAVE hlelN1'08Il a

mu suwatn, Egypt (CF)- Tlie sand was blowilll 0'13 0i "I0 dfsfrl, across the airlield and into the stone harrlcks oi the cans- dtttn soldId'l. II I" 1”” um mil"-H. .....-.- and" nuts. and ones we blankets and Ititbags.

Canadian troops have been sta- ,,....ed in some dismsiplaces and Ahu suwelr must. rank as one of mp most dismal of III. But things ma likely to get worse before they

get better. p The Canadians. in fact. have better quarters than they ex-

ppylvii. They are one-storey, long limestone buildings with corru- gaml iron roofs about 100.yards 1,-mn the apron where the incom- int: RCA? planes park when they (1; ill United Nations troops from (alt . ' l.tl.n Suweir is 35 miles north- ...-..r at Cairo and about 60 miles ,....m of Port Said. Mediterranean PIIIIZIIIFP of the Suez Canal.-The tmltt-ill uas built by the British- nml more recently born by on-m and it takes its name rom luv nrarhy village on the road (win Cairo to Ismailla. The VII- 1...;.- is a small collection of ram- .n.u kle wooden buildings and mud

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the Canadians are not permit- ml all the camp except in con- nection with their United Nations ttork. They refer frequently to the rlailun as a concentration camp and to themselves I! Pl'i30"9THli' -..y at the Egyptians.

ll the same time, Canadian. of- yj.-.-;-: say they have received I 1... of help from the Egyptians in nmmiting supplies and trIIIlP0fi-

The Canadians have 30 men 0!! glittrd duty around their barracks - lust across a narrow street from the Egyptian camp-but say "WY have had no trouble.

some 0 the 300 Canadians now in Egypt may stay here. Others probably will move some 30 miles north to El Ballah on the Suez Canal where Maj.-Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Ottawa. commander of the UN zmersency Force. vllns to art up his headquarters.

The engineers with the Cana- dian. headquarter; unit have al- ready been selected as the mine- rlmring team and they likely will nun-e soon into the Sinai desert to clear mines for UN troops tak- lng positions along the Egypt-It reel border.

HEAT AHEAD '

This is when the going will get really tough. It is winter here and the daytime temperature is around ll.Butinnunme.t-that , a- ture in the Sinai goes well be- yond 100.

"The Sinai is terrible" said an Indian major who served in that area during the Second World War. "It is not only the heat be- qause men can stand dry heat. It is the flies. They can eat your food before you can get it into your mouth. And the sand. It gets into everything."

The Sinai stretches from the east bank of the Suez Canal more than 100 miles to the border of Israel. It is a hostile wasteland without water, without a pinch of green, without pity. '

If the UN force digs in along the EgypP- Israel border. some Canadians likely will have to ac- company it. Right now. the Cana- dlans' main job is establishment of supply and communication lines for the force. Half a dozen engin- eers have been helping to set up Gen. Burns' headquarters at El Ballab.

The Canadlans' most dramatic job so far was marking out mine field in the 1.000-yard buffer zone at E Cap between the Egyptian and Anglo-French forces.

The 26 Canadian 25 sappers and a medical assistant-took the train from Abu Suwelr to El Cap. They could see the dozen freight- ers which have blocked the canal. DANGEROUS TASK

The Canadians did not lift any mines. which included ones oi Rus- sian and Czechoslovak make. but placed white tapes around mined areas. The job took two days of prodding with long picks and sweeping with mine detectors.

They slept on the ground and ate canned rations. They swam in the blue Suez Canal but cut their feet on the sharp stones. They got some shade from the hot sun in a grove. With them were Indian in- iantry.

Capt. Norman Henderson of Van- couver. in command of the Cana- dian team, said nobody knew where the mines were and the Egyptians were vague. The Brit- ish had already removed their mines from that area.

Sgts. Floyd Taylor of llamllton and Calgary and George Mac-

Cracken of Cbilliwack. B.C.. said the tum made absolutely sure the

Britain's First Labor Member Of Commons Honored In House

i.()Nll()N (Reuters) -Britain's iirxt Labor member oi Farliarnent pas honored Tuesday when a bust nl Keir Hardie. Tlery Scottish pl- mwrr socialist, was presented to tlu- House of Commons.

km the bronsa bust lacked one i'IlxlInEiilsIlInR feature -- the cloth rap Hnrdle insisted on. ”' in sections oi Parliament. ,

in that up and his rough tweed still the former coal miner stood out as a symbol oi the worlrinl class in the staid corridors of the House of Commons.

All other members in those days ht-lore the Fl rst World War dressed in morning coats and shiny top hats.

w(mI(ERs' SYMIOI.

At the presentation ceremony Lorri Samuel a veteran British Liberal, said the cap-the typical Bntlsh working man's hssdplecs -vlas "meant to strike sdlcord- ant note."

"it made us feel slightly uncom- lrutuhle" he recalled to members of all parties. "It was meant to make us feel uncomfortable." The vlnlh up was "a symbol a re- minder, a protest. perhaps a por- tool."

The bust-by Benno Schots- Iww presented by the Keir Hardin memorial committee in the cen- lr-nary year oi Hardiels birth. I-Is died in 1915. dillpliinlecl and broken by the world war ha had -tried to prevent.

ii is the first hint of a Labor member to appes in the memor- ial-studded Houses of Parliament. ,Ml-IMBEB Poll. UNEIIPLOYID

. Born in a one-room cottage to working-clasa parents. liardls never lost his seal tor the lower classes. in ths.Contmons. where

'ntctnlw's are formally addressed hi their constituencies. he was .I(nmtn as "tbs member for the unrmployed."

g He once 0 I motion coll- srmulatlas Queen Victoria on tits

- him: of a grandchild. t

store windows at picture books he could not afford to buy.

After l2 years in the pits. he and two younger brothers were tired because of his ttnion activ- lty. Blacklisted by the mine own- era. he turned to full-time union organization. supporting himself

g mostly by work as a journalist.

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area was cleared or marked be cause it would look bad for the Canadians it. after their first oper- ations. -Indian or other UN sol- dier wfsuhurt by a miss. NO MISRAPS

"This is the one man we want to keep out of wor .” said Sgt. Maccracken, pointing to Sgt. Ted Cuthbert of Toronto. the medical

packages of morphlna they had been carrying in case of casual- ties.

Sappers Ian Laplerre of St. Catharines, Ont., Norm Orr of Calgary and Norm Whillans of Vancouver were pe ling off their clothes before gold: for a swim In the Suez.

”What a desert! 'sald Whilians. "Every time I left a mine over here l'm going to plant corn In

As the Canadian swam, French Foreign Legion men on the far side of the canal sat sunning themselves two telephone poles away from the UN post manned by the Indians.

Canadian engineers themselves crossed the canal a few days later on a reconnaissance patrol about 25 miles into the Sinai desert.

Tltree Canadian newspaper moi -Munroe Johnston of the Toronto Star, Jim Lynch of Federal News Photos, Toronto, pad the writer- were the first correspondents to ' cross the buffer zone and talk to members of the opposing armies. p They passed through the Egypt- ian lines, a UN checkpoint. the main UN position. another UN checkpoint and finally the Britialli Ilnes. They talked to a British cap- tain and lieutenant but the two of- ficers did not permit the report-, ers to talk to or photograph their' Il'It'll.

SCIrI.VIrI SERENE

The British captain wanted to know what American opinion was on the British military interven- tion in Egypt. The Scottish lieuten- ant wanted to get home for Hog- manay (New Yearl. He said he had heard explosions during re- cent nights. meaning that the Egyptians were blowing them- selves up on their own rnlnas.

But on this day it couldn't have been more serene. Two British soldiers were fishing in the irriga- tion canal and the lieutenant ro-

porled they had already caught a three-pound dogfish and a four- pound roach. .

The B r l t i s h officers were friendly. the Indian troops at the UN checkpoints smiled, the Egypt- ian colonel couldn't have been more polite or courteous.

it just didn't seem possible that the British and Egyptians had been shooting at each other in this same spot only a few weeks be- fore.

The reporters walked back across the buffer zone from the British to Egyptian lines. One could plainly hear a hot wind from Sinai whistling through the pine trees. And that was about the)

only sound.

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