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Pictures of RAF long-distance flight machines and crew before take-off.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Canal Zone Scenes. DESCRIPTION: A British road block on the road from Cairo to the Canal Zone town of Ismailia is one obvious precaution. For servicemen’s families still out there,...
After weekend of terror British Army puts families into special compound for safety. Cairo Biggest demonstration so far features march through city to royal palace to mourn Eygptians killed in Canal Zone.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Troops Extend Canal Zone Control. DESCRIPTION: The round-up of Egyptian police in the village of El Hamada was necessitated by police resistance to a search of this trouble spot - yet...
Troops capture one hundred and thirty so-called police who have been making terrorist attacks. American Consul calls at St Vincent Convent to pay homage before body of shot nun, Sister Anthony.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: British Storm Police Barracks. DESCRIPTION: British troops had waited in Ismailia, while orders were broadcast to Egyptian police to leave their headquarters and surrender. The...
In three hour battle Lancashire troops enforce surrender of eight hundred auxiliary police who attempt to hold out in their barracks.
Dramatic pictures of three hours ‘battle’ before 800 auxiliary police surrender.
Canal Zone troops take away barbed wire and other barricades as civilians are allowed to return.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Suez Operation. DESCRIPTION: The lifting of the last major obstacle in the Suez Canal, as watched by United Nations officials, Dr Bunche and Mr Hammarskjold, together with the Emergency...
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