RED CROSS SCORES CAIRO ON YEMEN

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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: June 6, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

W YORK T[MFS
JUN 61967
Approved For Release 2005/07/25 : CIA-RDP70BOO338R00030006OQ40'-5
RED CROSS SCORES
GIRO ON. YEMEN
'Confirms That It Protested
+` Air Attack on Convoy
By THOMAS J. HAMILTON
Special to The New York Times
GENEVA, June 5-The Inter-
national Committee of the. Red
ross, has "made representa-
tions" to the United Arab Re-
public against the bombing of
a Red Cross truck convoy that
was on its way to help the vic-
a oison- as a a
in_. rnyalist-contro ed nar ern
Xem n last mn h.
A ' spokesman for the com-
,npittee, which has made no pub-
lic statement holding the Egyp-
tian Government responsible
for the poison-gas attack, to-
day confirmed reports of its
protest to Cairo.
The cQmmittee announcement
.,on Friday said that only ;con-
ventional bombs were used in
the attack on the convoy. Ac-
cording to other sources, the
;.Red Cross medical team in the
4convoy escaped injury by'hid-
ing among nearby rocks. How-
ever, the two trucks and, the
cargo of medical supplies were
destroyed.
In accordance-with its policy
of neutrality,. the all-Swiss
committee sent copies of a r4-
port describing' its' evidence re-
~garding the use of poison gas
to both sides in the-Yemen civil
-war and also to their principal
supporters - to the royalists
and Saudi Arabia, and to the
republicans and the United
Arab Republic.
Autopsies Said to Be Cited
Although'.the report has not:
been made public, . reliable"7
sources said today that- it cited
autopsies of victims of the,
poison-gas bombing and ai
chemical analysis of sand in the
village.
It was understood that the;
report.said that the bomb can-'
nisters bore markings in 'Rus-
sian.
Because the Soviet Union Is
known to have supplied
tary equipment to the United
Arab Republic, it' is considered
:hat these markings strengthen
reports from ? other sources that
Egyptian planes were 'respon-
1sible for the poison-gas attack,
Pon the village as well as forthe:
bombing of the convoy.
'According to 'dependable;
sources, however, the report' re;;
,ironed:. from!., placing' responsi-'
bility for the poison-gas attack.
Jamil M. Baroody, the Saudi
Arabian . deputy representative
to the United Nations, declined
to comment on the Red Cross
announcement today. 'He had
Arab Republic of a poison-gas
attack last January. in Kitap,
another village In northern
Yemen, with the loss of 100
lives.
Support for U.A.R. Affirmed
Mr. Baroody said that in view
of the fighting in the Middle
East, Saudi Arabia wished to
emphasize its solidarity with
the United Arab Republic
against Israel. He recalled that
King Faisal of Saudia Arabia,
during his recent visits to Lon-
don, Brussels and Paris, had
said that Palestine should be
re-established, and that only the
Jews who were living there be-
fore the creation of Israel should
remain.
However,. Mr. Baroody said
that Saudi Arabia still felt the
people of Yemen should be al-
lowed to choose their own gov.~
ernment without interference by
troops from either Saudi Arabia
or the United Arab Republic.
The Egyptian government has
stationed an expeditionary force
of 50,000 men in Yemen to
support the republican regime
in the civil war ' with the
royalists.
Previously Mr. Baroody had
cited medical reports from a
Saudi Arabian} hospital, where
200 refugees from Kitaf had
beers treated, in urging Secre-
tary General Thant to appeal
to the united Arab Republic not
to use poison gas. Mr. Thant
refused, but last week the Inter-
no,tional Committee of the Red
Cross made such an appeal to
the four groups, Involved. in
the Yemeni civil.'war..
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