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ISRAELI MINISTER IN
A BELLIGERENT MOOD
THREATENS TO
!
REOPEN WAR
Tel Aviv, August 2.
Jaract will re-open the war against the Arabs if the Arab armies continue to break the prosent truce, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mosho Sher- tok, told a news conforance today.
Shertok said: "The presence of invading armies on the borders of Israel is a continuation of a state of war and is quite intolerable.
An indefinite prolongation of this truce is not justifiable. because it is neither peace nor
war.
Discussing Jerusalem, Mr
Mr. Azzam Pash told thom, Mr. Shertak said: "It In the Arab tradition that such an leave as this must be tought out on the field of battle." Sherlok asserted that the farnell Mediator Informed Government is now considering;
Mr. Shertok said that he had Egyptians had only the "possibility of the in-learned that the clusion of Jewish Jerusalem inte opened a full scalo offensive in and
today with air
ground attack. on Adluj In the
Negev area.
the borders of the Jewish State" | the. Routh and added: "The actual bound- aries of Jewish Jerusalem
are yet to be negotiated on the light of the progress of fighting there since May 14."
"We have informed the United Nations mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte that unless normalcy is restored in the south and else where, we shall take determined action against the positions · 0{ than public statements the altackers and against any "that we are ready as co-belli-other Egyptian positions we feel gerants to talk terms of peace.
ace." necessary," he said.
He said no direct steps were taken recently to obtain direct peuce negotiations with the Arabs
other
Girl Missing From Liner
Hoston, August 2.
Miss Alice Low, a native of Palestine, was today report- nd missing from Holland. Americs liner co ⚫ voyage from Rotterdar) to New York. Officials of the line said she was coming to live In Now York with relativas after a visit to Bruencik.
The finor, the as Veendam. la due in New York tomor.... row-Router.
never accept the use of British nationals as part of the United Nations observer teams,"
The continued detention by the British authorities of 11,000 visn- less Jews in Cyprus was, he said "Lawlessness and piracy such as I have never seen.....and a de- finite violation of the truce."
Count Seas Abdullah
King Abdullah this morning an audience to Count qave Falke Bernadotte, the United Nationa mediator, who flow from Rhodes to Amman on Bunday to seek the vlowa ol TransJordan's traders on Palea.
tine.
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hut David Mr. Shertok severely criticised The Count called on Premier Horowitz, now Under-Secretary the ostrich-like position of Bri-Tewilk Abu el Huda soon after of the Finance Ministry, and tain regarding of State of Israel his arrival. Major Aubrey Eban, faracli
de- which, he said, was "encouraging jegate to Lake Success, had con- the Arabs to continue hostillies." ferred with Azzam Pasha after Commenting on the use by the United Nations Commission Count Bernadotte of British air- recommended partition, but with- |craft and personnel, he sold: "The Government of Israel will
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UN MAN DIVORCE NOT RELEASED
BY JEWS
Jerusalem, August 2. A Swedish United Nations
POPULAR IN SHANGHAI
Shanghai, August 2.
Cosmopolitan Shanghai, wastornised to a consider. able degree along many linos, yet lags far be-
hind the western world as far as divorce cases are concerned,
officini, M., John Larsen. of Stockholm, has been released without explanation after being detained for 50 hours in a Jewish prison at Tel Aviv.
M. Larsen, a secretary to the Swede United Nations observer in Jerusalem, Colonel Brunson, Jewish forces was arrested by last Friday. He had approached the Jews to try to halt a convoy which they proposed running to
Of the others, 27 were for the Jerusalem and which the Arab vaiding or annment of the mar- Legion had
announced they riage contract, 19 were co-habita- would attack.
↓
Statistics of the Shanghai|scara but still existent-that is District Court show that in the attached to boing a divorced wo past year there were only 339 man. Only extreme pressure of Induce the cases involving marital rela- circumstances will tions, of which 282 were divorce average Chinese wife to seek the Anal step of divorce. Agence cases.
France-Presse.
-tlon- cases, and two were suits
".
M. Larsen, who was wearing for the official recognition of
wedlock. United Nations armband, was taken to Tel Aviv and Imprison- Considering thot the prosent ed. He said no reason was given population of Shanghai is given for his imprisonment but at the at 4,830,000 this seems to be an end of 30 hours he was told he was free to go. The Jewish can νου tried to break the Arab blockade but was forced back
Reuter.
RUNNING ARMS BY PLANE
Former
GREEK ARMY SHAKE-UP
Athens, August 2,
extremely small proportioni of M. Themistocles Sophoulis, divorces. It must be remember- Greek Prime Minister announced ed.
that the number today that the Deputy Chief however, 282 only represents the figure for of Staff-Lieut. Gen. Stelion Kitri- divorces contesteil In court. inkis, is going to the front to as- Where both parties agree to the sume command of the Grammos divorce, it is not necessary under Mountain operations against the
Chinese law to go to court, and guerillas. therefore it must be assumed that
there was a large number of Lt. Gen. Panos Kalogeropoulos,, separations and divorces not in-
the Greek Second Corps com- siuded in the Couri figure.
mander, has been given month's leave," M. Sophoulls also One hundred and seventy-one announced.
of the 282 divorce suits in the
has year were successful. In The Americans had
recom-
30 cases the plaintiT lost the sult, mended the replacement of Gen- while in 12 a "compromiso was eral Kalogeropoulos who at one Frankfurt, August 2.
reached. Thirty-one coses are time commanded the entire Czech air officers at awaiting final judgment, and Grammos operations with six who fled to Germany within in the rest the complainant with divisions.Associated Presd. After bls meeting with the the last week today, reported drew suit or else appeal was re- King, the Count sold at the air-that
aerial gun-running ected by the court. pert whence he few to Істи-
line wor operating regularly salem that he was more hopeful
between Czechoslovakia and of achieving agreement on tha demilitarisation of Jerusalem be-
the Jewish state. tore his departure for Sweden on August 9.
"As usual King Abdullah has been very helpful. I repeat, very helpful," he said.
day.
The offeers sald small arms were being flown by chartered plane 10 Tel-Aviv from the former German fighter base be- tween Prague and Jachymov. The planes flying the line were described as C-fis chartered un- der the Ponomarian flag.
to
Women Plaintiffs
In 153 of the 171 successful diverte mults, the plaintiff was the woman. in only a littla over ten percent of the casos was the husband the complal. ant.
TRUMAN REQUEST ON D.P.'S Washington, August 2 President Truman toddy asked Congress for another $2,000,000 to speed up the immigration of 100,000 displaced persons a year into the United States.
Mr. Truman said the original
12
The vast To Confor With Jews
majority of wives seeking divorce generally at- tributed to the feet that, in pre- Count Bernadotte also met
The officers sald the gated field sent Chinese society, it is easy $2,000,000 for the Displaced Per- Glubb Pasha, Commander of the was guarded closely and no Cus- for an unhappily married man sons Commission was not enough Arab Legion, at his headquarters ms facilities were observed. In in the Old City of Jerusalem af-flights from Ruzyne, they added,
seek consolation elsewhere, and "unless additional funds are ter flying here from Amman 10-Customs
whereas conventions prevent the made available, there will be declarations described wife from taking equal liberties materini reduction in the number the shipments as scrap iron for They discussed the demili. Abysinnia and
One factor leading to the small who can be brought to the Unit- similar items. number of divorce suits is tarleation of Jerusalem and the United Press.
the ed States in the fiscal year 1949." stigma-greatly reduced in recent -Associated Press. Arab refugee problem. The Count will see Jewish leaders
While tomorrow. Jerusalem, the Mediator person- ally investigated the refugee in the Ramallah area, about
kilometres north of the Holy City, where thousands are living in the open hill regions and olive groves.
in
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A report from Amman, mean- while, states that martial law was proclaimed today in the areas of Palestine "occupied" by the Iraqi Army,
The proclamation was signed by the Iraql Commander-in- Chief in Palestine and Transjor- dan. It did not describe the areas for reasons of military security-Associated Press and
Reuter,
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