TRANSJORDAN ASKS BRITAIN TO SEND FORCE
LONDON, Jan. 8. The Government has acceded to a Transjordan r'equest to send a British force to Akaba. Thd request was made under the terms of the Anglo-Trans-jordan Treaty of March 194=8. ' A Foreigfi Office spokesman said Britain decided to accede to the re'quest because the Transjordan Government had faithfully fulfilled all its obligations under both the 194=6 AngloTransjordan Alliance and also the revised Anglo-Transjordan Treaty of 1948. The spokesman refused to disclose the size of the British force sent to protect Akaba but stated, however, that no reinforcements had heen sent to other polnts in the Middle East, either to the R.A.F. units stationed at Amman under the 1948 Alliance or to British troops in the Canal Zone of Egypt nnder the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Alliance. The spokesman denied that any arms or military equipment had been supplied to the Arab Governments during the period of the Palestine arms embargo imposed by the Security CounciL
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 January 1949, Page 5
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