MUFTI NOT ABOARD TROOPSHIP
PORT SAID REPORTS PROVE INCORRECT
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. "The Grand Mufti was not aboard the British troopship Devonshire when she was searched at Port Said,” says Reuters Port Said correspondent. "The general belief in Port Said that the Mufti had been found was encouraged by the British authorities’ silence. The Devonshire was searched three times by a destroyer’s boarding party, and again after the troops had been landed at Port Said.
“Investigation al'so discloses ; that the reports that the destroyer Virago steamed at high speed through the Suez Canal after the searches are also incorrect. Arrangements had been made, if the Mufti had been found, for special priority through the canal, but the destroyer in fact did not enter the canal.”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24904, 18 June 1946, Page 5
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