SECURITY COUNCIL'S EMERGENCY SESSION
Discussion Of 'Serious Situation'
"
Created By Negev Fighting
ACTING MEDIATOR TO REPORT ON VIOLATIONS OF THE TRUCE
! Paris, October 18.
The United NationsTM Security Council will meet in an emergency
session at 9.30 a.m. GMT tomorrow.
The Council will consider the "serious situation" created by the resumption of hostilities in the Negev area of Southern Pales- tinc.
DELEGATES TALKING
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1948.
He Didn't Understand
Paris, October 18.
There was a walk-out to- day at the United Nations- by # nine-year-old Filipino
boy.
Roberto Romulo sat for a white In the chale of his father, Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, during dis Gusalons of the atom bomb by tha Assembly Politicol Committee. After fidgeting and fussing for two minutes he walked out.
"I guess I just don't under.
stand what they were talking about," he said.—Ansociated Preil
Newspaper Offices Searched
Sydney, October. 18. Security police today exam- ined papers at the offices of the here Sydney Morning Herald
in a probe apparently connected with allegations of a leakage of secret information.
QUID. PRO QUO
Other officers with a search warrunt meanwhile went through the paper's Bles at its office in Parliament House, Canberra, the FRENCH. STRIKES: Federal Capitol.
Dr. Ralphe Bunche, the acting United Nations Mediator, will give
a report to the Council on the recent violations of the truce.
To reply from the Israeli, in to n Israel report, Iraqi authorities to his request for a
forces shelled a Jewish settle- three-day cease-fire in the ment at Fkar Yanvetz on the Negev district of Palestine was friage of Arab-held territory due mode known tonight when the
West of Nnulis, Israeli Government told the
An Israeli spokesman said
(Mr. Arthur Fadden, opposi- United Nations headquarters in very intense" lighting was still tion leader, in Parliament a fort Haifa that it could not accept out on in the Negev, while a night ago produced a document the orders for a cease fire, but Jewish communique said the und anged the Premier. Mr. that Israel was willing to meet Israeli Air Force had bombed Joseph Chifley, if he had told the Egyptian representatives to Gaza, the
seal of the Palestine British Cabinet he understood Paris, October 18.
Arab "Government" of
as well as thot settling
America was reluctant to talking too to discuss means United Nations peacefully the difficulties that Faluja, Beersheba and El Arish. ive Australia certain atomic re-
woman had arisen between
Mr. Chifley re- the two
search secrets. plied that the document rust be countries regarding this area.
either stolen or a forgery)
TOO MUCH
The men are much in the
а
Social Committee, delegate suggested today,
"We are now in a crisis," said Minerva Bernarding of the Do- minican Republic. She urged the men to "held back the avalanche of bitterness" which, she
"Grave Effects"
The Israel delegation in Paris said, tonight brought a formal com-
hnd turned the Committee's de-plaint lo the Security Council
liberations into an cnid-war."
"East-West; against alleged Egyptian violan-
tions of the truce in the Negev.
The
instances specific
Women delegates have been
-Reuter.
COLD WAVE HITS AMERICA
Chicago, October 18. The year's first cold wave Isprend over much of the nation, setting a new record in low fem- com- peratures nt some points and on Jewish convoys on balls. the Maidal-Faluja road and the Naratiyeh road.
"inore reserved" in the debate on plained of are obstruction and bringing overconts out of moth-of
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DONT GET THE WIND UP MISS,
ILL HOT DISTURB YOU SOLONG
AS NOBODY DISTURBS ME.
SECURITY TROOPS IN CLASH WITH MINERS
Paris, October 18.
A statement issued by the French Republican security troops, using tear gas Sydney Morning Herald today bombs, clashod tonight with about 1,000 strik- aald the security officers' action
ing miners and metal workers who sought to apparently arocb from informa tion
re-occupy one of the pitheads in St. Etienne, Contral France.
་
Early reports said that there were injuries on both
sides.
rasching the newspaper about tobacco Imports from an employes of a Government de- partment in Canberra. There did not appear to be any connection between the Bources
information contained
French troops were sent to withdrawn from the precincts of In the newspaper's reports on tobacco the Central France coalfields the mines." Imports and others which it had today for the first time since The mereury plunged to 20 published about America's re- the miners' strike started ́a Army 11 is alleged that on
October degrees at Chicago for the coldest ported reluctance to supply atom week ago. Troops and
was October 18 on record. Overcoat secrets, although they were writ-engineers arrived in St. Etienne of 10 trucks 15, a convoy
prevailed in central ten by the same reporter. attacked by Egyptian wenther
to ensure the protection heavliy
The paper declined other com- volunteers or miners requisi- forces South of Karatlyeh, des- sections as the polar air mass
legal action may be troying two vehicles and damag- moved East and South.--United ment as
tioned to work the pumps and taken."-Reuter.
prevent the mines from being Blooded.
rights de-attneks proposed human claration, she added.
A few minutes later the Greek delegate was demanding the floor to reply to Ukranlan charges and the Bolivian and Costa Rican re- presentatives were accusing Rus- sin of applying smoke screens and inoral coercion.
Amid gavel pounding. Chi nese delegate P.C. Chang quot- ed a Chinese proverb
"Sweep the snow in front of ent's door, overlook the frost
- others' roof tiles."Associated
Press.
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Turks Worried By US Strategy
is clear that the Egyptian suc- in obstructing the Oclober CCSH 15 convey would have had the It would have perpetuated gravest anıt profondest effects.
Egyptian military advantage as a result of n truce violation-and at it time when legitimule claims are being sponsored with regard to this part of the terri- tory of Israel, the Husion the invading Art ferees exer-The cise effective control or the com- munications in that rea mient have been interpreted a Raving those forces certain substantive rights as a result of the violation of the truce,
that
Istanbul, October 14.
American conception of Turkey's strategic value in a future war met with objections raised today by Mr. Abidn Daver, a well-known Tur- kish military expert.
W
AL BL Etienne, armed National guards occupied. a number of pitheads and took over the control of the pump and ventilation services, No sorlous clashes were reported.
In St. Etienne itself, gag prea- sure was reported to be weak Earlier, strike pickets had bur- en account of the stoppage of one red the entrance to strike-bound of the coke furnaces.
nines in many regions in France Three pits in the St. Ellery following the decision of the Com region were reported this after- munist-led Miners Union to with noon to have been occupied by draw its security services for 24 strikers-Reuter. hours in protest against the
pre sence of police forces and allega- tions of repression against miners, A Ministry of the Interior of Belal said today that if the miners could not or would not work the pumps or ventilators, the troops
(would do so,
LAWYERS APPEAL
TO TRUMAN
New York, October 16.
In the Puy-de-Dome Depart-
A plan to serid 1,000,000 tele- ment, the security services were grams to President Truman de- Immediate United vious wars were pursued in a reported to have been maintained manding
the mines but dia- Nations, action on the Israel. future war, Turkey would be some of
question-was-announced-today-by abandoned and at the end there continued-in-others.
the Lawyers Committee for Jus- would be no traces taft of the
tice in Palestine, nations that suffered from So-
the CGT miners'
Com-
3
In an article in the Cumhurlyet, "In this sense, the Egyptian of which he is a regular corres- action would have led to the Pondent, Mr. Daver said that It nequisition of
a political ad-
was "wrong to view Turkey na
Pit Occupied that can bo vantage resulting from a truce advance post
A spokesman of abandoned'
viet occupation. in any future war
The Chairman of the vlotation.
Com- The Cumhuriyet also said in its munist-controlled
mittes, Mr. Paul O'dwyer, who The Jews today claimed to and asked for a more logical and have seized the strategie heights realistic use of additional Ameri- news columns that Turkey was Federation told Reuter: "All our announced the plan, said in dominating the
Mr. Truman: The road to their can military ald funds being encountering difficulties from the members in the security services telegram
have obeyed the orders to strike fate of Israel is United States in strengthening
your hands". Isalnted settlements in the Negev given to Turkey."
her fleet. The nowspaper said for 24 hours. We accept no res- O'dwyer described the Com- desert of South Palestine after He demanded that the new
that the American alght-long heavy fighting.
authorities ponsibility for the consequences, mittee as a group of lawyers and funds should be allocated mainly have far refused the Turkish because eight days ago the Gov-judges established to review the The Premier David Ben Gurion, who watched Navy and for the creation of a cruisers of the Fargo class and huppen if the
of Israel. Mr. to the Turkish Air Force and the offer to buy on credit two light ernment was warned what would United States proposals on Paics-
police were not 'tine-Reuter. operations
yesterday, order Navy Air Arm. ed his trappa "to plerce the road and not to lay down their arms until their objective is achieved," Reuter Tel Aviv cable and to- day.
Both sides have refused the put an end to their strategy of call of on-the-spot United Na-"Arst defence and retreat and
the
arc
proposing to give Turkey only two old pre-war destroyers of the newer
These allocations are neces- sary, Mr. Daver said, if Turkey instead of four
is to receive her true value as types that Turkey wants.--Reu- វា "mult defence line." He de ter. clared that the Americans should
tions observers to cease fighting, then, an offensive," and adopt an which in the last four days has "active aggressive" strategy. been confined to the Negev area. Fighting also flared up in the North West today when, accord-
He said there was foar in this part of the world that I the strategy of the two pra
New York, October 10, been appoluted to a 14-man com
Professor Albert Einstein has mifto formed by the Federallon of American Scientists to ensure justice for any scientists accused of un-Americanism-Reutor.
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