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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1948.
CAIRO EXPRESS BLOWN UP
Jewish Dynamiting Of Railway Bridge QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
Arab Volunteers
Among Dead.
Jorusalam, Mar. 31,
Forty Arabs wore killed and 60 injured when the Cairo-Haifa oxpress was blown up by an elec- trically-dotonated land mine near Benyamina, northern Palestine, taday.
.
Two
trove on the conatal plain of Bamarie.
Most of the dead were in one coach, which was completely demolished when the mine explod- ed under a bridge north of Benyamina. other coaches were overturned. British military ambulances and a unity of troops were sent to the scene for rescue work. The explosion separated the engine from the rest of the train and pushed it 100 yards along the track, according to Jewish reports from Tel Aviv. Jews who went to the scene of the crash came under fire and were forced to retire, these re- ports added.
The Jews said the wrecking was believed to be the work of the Jewish terrorist Stern Gang. Most of the dead, they added, were believed to be members of
the Arab Liberation Army.
Second Timo The Calro-Halfa express Been wrecked twice in the 33 days by terrorists.
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past
The explosion occurred as the express sped through an orange
General's Message To China
Shanghai, Apr. 1. General Ho Ying-ching, chief delegate of the Chinese military mission to the United Nations, called on the Chinese public to
the learn from Anglo-Saxon people the ways of making a nation strong and prosperous, when he returned
here yesterday. afternoon
Rescuers who hurried to the scene helped to carry the dead and injured from the shattered
RED SNOW A BAD OMEN?
Ankara, Mar. 31. People living near tho Turkish Black Sea port' of Binope awoke today to find the countryside covered with reddish snow, supposed by the superstitious to portand bloodshed or war.
The red snow was believed to have been caused by the presence of desert duet in the almosphero when the snow formed-Reuter.
Syrian
Musicians' Ultimatum
To B.B.C.
The
London, Mar. 31.
British Musicians Union today issued an ultima- tum to the B.B.C. that it would ban all public music broadcasts after May 1 unless the Government radio mono- WER,"PODOSOMpoly paid full studio fees for
all such performances.
couches and laid them plongside Merchant
the track, Army authorities re- ported that some 400 British sol--
diern Evere travelling on the Sentenced
train, but there were no reports of any of them being among the casualties.
ing another 35.
The B.B.C. now pays a "relay fee" of 12s. 6d. for broadcasts relayed from theatres, hotels, music halls and such.
The Union demands that it pay the customary fee for broadcasts mado From the studio, which amounts to
£2-10.
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Shanghai, Apr. 1. The first occasion when the
Chafik, Matouk, a Syrian The BBC's position is that it Cairo-Haifa express was derailed was on Feb. 29 when Stern Gang merchant, was sentenced to cannot pay full studio fees for broadcasts Involving no exiga terrorists exploded three mines under the last four conches, kill-seven months' imprisonment work for musicians who already big 28 British soldiers and injur-by Chief Justice Chu Yok-are paid by their regular
huang of the district court ployers.
However, the radio corporation Jows Ambushed yesterday afternoon for il-has offered to raise the present in gold fee. The Union has not replied to A Jewish food convoy en route legal transactions
that offer. from Tel Aviv to the reilef of be- bars.
The BBC's only exception to leaguered Jerusalem Jews came Immediately after pronounce-
on Wednesday by ment of the sentence, Matouk, the relay fee rule. It was under- hundred AICUE.
near through his counsel,
stood, was made in the case of the symphony orchestras, which nin court he would appeal to the contracted at the beginning of Haganah reported that one High Court.
the year for a sel number Jew had been killed and sav. Of the remaining 13 persons broadcasts.- United Press, eral wounded in a battle which arrested with Marouk when pol- has continued since midday. Ice falded the Syrian's offices in An Arab..source claimed that
under attack several Harluy,
told
January, four Chinese received Disfigured wooy was surrounded and prison terms ranging from three
the
to seven months and the other
It is the first Jewish convoy to nine, including Russian By Surgeon
emigrant, were acquitted.
attempt to run the Arab blockade inta Jerusalem sluce the Arab All the gold seized, consisting ambush at Dab El Wad last Fri- of gold bars and gold bullion three to twelve day, which was broken by Haga- weighing from nah reinforcements and British ounces, was ordered to be con
fiscated. Reuter. 'artillery.-Associated Press.
De Valera On
Attack Britain
Washington, Mar. 31.
after over two years abroad Asserting there was no worse champion of the
He said these ways were two- fold: full use of scientific Incili- ties and the promotion of a po- pular law-abiding spirit.
He revealed the purpose of his return to China was to make re- ports on his work at UNO direct- ly to Chiang Kai-shek and to participate in the National As- sembly, and declined to give a definite answer when asked by eporters whether he intends to join in the vice-presidential race
General Ho said he was deeply | impressed by the popular
and
rights of small nations than Britain, Mr. Eamon do Valera, former Eiroann Prime Minis- ter, today drew a parallel between the British actions in Eire and what the Soviet Union was today doing in Europe.
Speaking as the guest of the National Press Club, Mr. do Valera described the division of Elre as "continuing British aggression".
It would be as reasonable to
"Russia's technique is certainly blatant and more im- more mediately effective, but in Bri- tain's actions in Ireland, there is the same encroachment on the
San Francisco, Mar. 31. A London dress designer was awarded US$115,000 damages against a plastic surgeon in Sar Francisco today following breast operation which she claimed-disfigured her,
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Mr. Stella Gluckstein, aged 50, testified that the tip of one breast had been misplaced by an- operation designed to remove ex- ecas fat.
A Superior Court Jury of ning women and three men deliberat- ed for 50 minutes before finding agalast Dr. Philip Lipscott Oakland, Calif.
of
she
Gluckstein's lawyer said will return to London soon for additional surgical
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rights of the Irish people as sia practising
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usc Russia, he said, might well development of scientifle have chosen to following the tool, throughout the United
He urged he should not be re-to 7,10 and 9.00 to 11.00 p.m. States and paid special interest to British technique of hiding the agricultural development in that fact that she was undermining garded as unutterably opposed to
Britain and everything British. country which, he said, was high-democracy.
Mr. de Valera reiterated, how- lighted by the amazing develop-
could never bo ment of transportation facilities, approve Russia going into Italy ever, that there including railroads, highways and to support a Communist minority the friendly relationship between countries that could in any one section of it as to ap- the two motor trucks.
Britain's support of the otherwise axial, as long as Eire expressed the prove The General
was partitioned.-Reuter, hope that the Chinese people minority in Ulster.
and would double their efforts modemize their country in ac- cordance with American stand- ards within a period of 20 to 30 years, provided there was peace it the land,
He pinced the promotion of u popular law-abiding spirit as one .of the two pre-requisites for modernizing the country.-Reu-
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GREED CAUSES DAMAGE 1.the heart 6 with the spade K, Some of the worst damage ruffed the diamond 7 with the caused unnecessarily at the spade 10, ruffed the heart with bridge table comes from the the spade Q, then laid down his cupidity of a.
declarer
de- who last trump, the J. If both grasps for every possible
over
fenders had followed suit, ho trick. When in doing he takes would have taken all thirteen The tricks. But East discarded a heart, and to make a most desirable profitable contract, he can blame 50, as soon as he got a trick with 10.00 his greed for the carnage if things it, the defence scored the re 10.15 pm. go wrong. It should be almost an club a total of four all told,"
maining - tricks 'except for the Immutable Jaw in the case. doubled and redoubled contracts one more than needed to beat that the declarer should forget † the contract.
To-day !!! To-day I 1 Ilaven the remotest risk of fall leaving West with the final spade,
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all about the extras until he South overdid the ruffing :uul- Arst makes absolutely certain he ness. After trumping two dia- can bring his, contract home,..........
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one diamond to East. That would H.. 10.4
NHA E J have set up the sult while he had. D. 5 4 3 WE
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TOMORROW'S PROBLEM
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