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EGYPTIANS IN PALESTINE
Volunteers Penetrate 30 Miles Inland Big Battle O On At Safad
Cairo, May 8.
Egyptian volunteers have crossed "Palestino's South- ern borders and penetrated some 50 kilometres, about 31 miles, inland, according to the first official communique from the Command of Volunteers on the Southern front in Palestino. The communique said "our forces 'penetrated the frontiers and held their posts without casualties. Some forces_rushed to the North- ern part of the front to help Arabs repulsing (which is Jewish attacks on Iraq Sowcidan," some 31 miles North of the Egyptian border -Town of Rafa). "This help was successful."
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Unconfirmed reports said that "The people of Palestine re- ceived mur troops enthusias-the British authorities may send tically and shouted for Arab- British troops to restore order for 1. Egypt and King Farouk" which the Palestine Covernment
is legally responsible until the communique pdded..
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Southern Palestine desert confirmed the
of 500 presence Egyptian volunteers at Falulla and Iraq Sowellon, Northenst of Gazu. The traveller anid the volunteers were commanded by "Egyptian Army officers" und ap- parently were well trained and well armed.)
Unofficial sources in Cairo, sald The Egyptian regular army had crossed into Palestine. This was
confirmed.
far
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The Egyptian Minister National Defenes tonight den.
led gross reports that Egyptian
Shinwell On War
Tauton, May 9. Confessing himself an agi- tator rather than
states-
-man, --the-War Minister, Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, orled: "Down with
when-he War
Labour spoke to a group Party members here today.
"am Secretary of State for War," Mr. Bhinwelt oald, "but no one desires war lesa I do not believe than I do.
that Ideological differences among nations should be the cause of war_bellove_It__in possible to have different Ideologies and atli! remain on peaceful terms with dite on- other."—Reuter.
Lebanese Government had
re-
TROOPS GLAD TO BE
OUT OF IT
Tripoli, May 9. About 50 officers, 47 warrant officers and 800 troops of the main party of the 1st Infantry Division Headquarters, have arrived in Tripoli from Haifa aboard the "Empire Test."
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Inhar bar- cupy the former racks,
The Empire. Test has returned to Half for evacuation of the minded the British of their res-rembling troops by the May 15 and demanded that, they inter- ponsibility for maintaining order deadline. vene in Salad: Associated Press, Reuter and United Press.
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# The part, played by Sir. Alon Talks on the question of truce for the whole of Jerus-Cunningham in securing the truce alem are expected to begin to was kept secret until last night, The battle for Safod is still rag
between representa- when an official statement said former Burmese Premier, who Rahunen was executed today. tonight th, the Arab communique sat,
here, tives of the Jewish Agency he had invited Azzam
statement Jewish forces are lacking re and with
the Arub League, to come to Jerl-relterating the inhocence of his extremely and the Palestine Government Fasha, the Secretary General of issued pentedly
Asked to comment on reports cho to try and bring
brother. heavy
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Cut the Arabs' cease fire terms
iruce for the Holy City. terial.
unarmed Jewish
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Altacking the present Govern- concentrations in thead down that "Enemy
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being typed yesterday Jewish quarters have been shell-convoys would
Government of the travel on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem ed." it added.
attnek to the west of highway subject to Arab Insper le sounds of artillery and ma- sentative
We chine-gun fire sounded over the Burmese people," the statement was repulsed with heavy tlon, the spokesman said:
the lee of the Old City walls, free beenuse we are at present All attempts to encircle shall never allow the feeding of Jewish Yemen Moshe quarter in added: "We Burmese, who
have already the town have failed and Safad Jerusalem's Jewish population while Haganah troops protected outside Burma,
the area with smoke screen. made plans to bring justier be dependent on the mercy of Is still in our hands."
war criminals when Jewish the Arabs,"
time comes, column against the The cease fire in Jerusalem bore But today, all was quiet us the these
truce went into effect.-Reuter. Arah positions around Megiddo. "all the marks of Britain's tradi-
diplomacy," Arab on the plains of Armageddon, cntional the northwest on May 5 was spokesman of the Jewish Agency
He itsta
described the a Jewish rout," the turned coinmunique also said,
Jericho talks as a purely "do- "The Jews dragged away their mestic affair between the British dead with ropes. A large num and the Arab League" with the ber of mortar sliells and grenades Jews playing a "secondary role." were ruptured. Our losses were cne killed and two wounded."
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"I have already communicated the, mutter to Mr. Attlee, the British Prime Minister, who is now fully aware of the true post- Paris, May--8.-- tion-in-Butma_s. -Seventeen people were reported. The fact that two Burmese killed today when a concrete arch, Cabinet Ministers and some 20 their party want The essence of British policy 23 metres high, fell dn a group members in Palestine, the spokesman con-of workers in a blast furnuce at sporinily to watch the dastardly tinued, was to save the Arabs Mondeville Colombelle, a suburb execution of U Saw should show The of Caen in western France.-Reu- the full signißennce of the whole a brating, Unconfirmed reports sald to- froin too severe n
episode."-Reuter. 10
ter, re- urged Jews were not prepared day that Lebanon han
In gard the cease fire simply as a British authorities
halt the
to prevent further Palcetine to
battle manoeuvre #bund Salad, which was con-Jewish advances, while allowing sidered in Beirut as the most the Arabs to bar Walling Wall fierce encounter of the part!and retain their "foreign mer- cenaries" in the Holy City, the Arab sources said that al-spokesman declared." though the Kaganah troops seiz- ed the major part of the city overlooking the flutch Valley, the Arab forces were still resist- ing from the concrete police fortress evacuated by the British and from the citadel in the centre of Safad.
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