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Abdullah Murder Trial
SECRET MEETING OF PLOTTERS NEAR JERUSALEM
Anuman, Aug. 19.
A secret meeting outside Jerusalem to plan the assassination of King Abdullah of Jordan three days before the King was killed was described in court here today at the resumed trial of 10 men for complicity in the murder,
Mahmud Shaq Antebli, who turned King's evidence, said that he had not told the Police about It because he had been threatened with death if he divulged the secret. He had been asked at the meeting to throw a grenade to create confusion and enable the assassin to escape.
He was
T
first approached to pay you a thousand dihars," he toke a part in the plot. six or salt.
reven months cro n: W35 Antebli toil the court he offered a thousand dinors, but refused, he told the court. .
Antebli was In the witness box more than an hour and gave direct testimony against Ave of the accused.
Ale said that Dr Musa Ab- dullah Hussein (o political op-
refused this offer, telling the dector, "But first we must eat to live and I have four daughters to care for,"
EX-CONVICT
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Cross-examined.. Antebl Donent of the ex-Multi) ap-mitted that he had been proached him three days before, prizon from October 29, 1939 the King was killed. On that serving a life sentence until hel was free at the end of the day Dr Musa Husseint, with
when al mandate Abdul Kadir Farhat, a Jerusa- British lem coffee house keeper, and prisoners were liberated at the Abd Abedq Olite, a Jerusalem caule merchant. all now un Antebl said he had known trial, met Antebli on the out- skirts of Jerusalem.
end of 1947.
Abedą Okke since the faller chief in a terroris wos his
and, the
Dr Musa told Antebl of their organisation formed in 1837 by Committer decision to kili Abdullah according to Antebii, told him with headquarters in Dumaseus,
that Father Abrahim Ayyad, a Franciscan friar, and Dr Daud Husseini,
Arab Higher
The Prosecution
then read a
a former dentist, confession made by Zakuriya
were in the plot.
Antebli
wild
Okke, Jerusalem
cattle mer-
assigned the chant and butcher and Abeda's In which he admitted
duty of throwing a grenade in bron jointly with Abdul
the
the Al Aqsa open space
Mosque immediately after the Kadir Farhat the revolver with assassin shot the shooting of the King "to enable which the
the assassin to escape in the King. The confession also sald confusion."
that he had been assigned 13 throw a hand grenade after the shooting.
DEATH THREAT
Asked why he had not in-
He knew thai various sums the Police after the had been paid to his brother formed
Dr Musa outskirts of Abedq on the
Okke by meeting Jerusalem, Antebli said he had Husseini, 90 dinars on one ceca- bren
told that he would be
----Router,.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1951.
In Scotland
Royal Family BRITAIN'S ELEVENTH-HOUR BID Effort To Break Anglo-Egyptian Deadlock
Morrison Urges
Urges Cairo To
The Royal Family are now holidaying at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. This picture, taken on their arrival at Ballater Station, shows the King (in kilts on left) trying to attract the attention of Princess Anne who has turned to admirers at the back. The Queen holds and on right is Lord Prince Charles by the hand,
Aberdeen.
Conference Plans African Defence
London, Aug. 19.
Delegates from seven European and African
put to death if he gave away and 50 dinars on mother nations gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, tonight to
the secret. He added that he had not been told that Musiała Usha had been chosen to mur-. der the King.
19
Antebli sald he had known Dr Daud Husseini one of those at the meeting in- 1048 during the Arab-Jewish fighting, when Dr Husseini was Inspector-General of the Jihad Muqaddas (Holy Warriors). military formation.
The acquaintance continued as after the organisation
disbanded
£203 in
was
IL owed Antebli pay, most of which
r |
Reconsider The Position
Cairo, Aug. 19.
The Egyptian Cabinet's Inner Council is to meet next Wednesday,
to discuss Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison's, "eleventh- hour" bid to break the deadlock in Anglo-Egyptian relations.
The British Minister to Egypt, Mr M. J. Creswell, yesterday handed the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Salah El Din Pasha, two, personal mes- sages from Mr Morrison.
One was for the Foreign Minister. and the other for the Premier, Nahas Pasha.
It js understood that Mr patible with the present circum-, Morrison reviewed. the inter-stances." national situation and described
A visit by
two Egyptian
it un trought with real dan-frigates to Gibraltar, had been particularly in the Middle cancelled for the same reason, a
spokesman said" here.
rape," East.
It is believed that he urged the Egyptian leaders to recon- sider the whole position, while there was still room for a settle- ment between the two countries,
momentous Wednesday's meeting will be presided over by Nahan Prisha. It will be nitended by the Mintater of the Interior Fund Serag El Din
the Pasha, the "Strong Man" of Wardlet Government, who ro- turned from
European four
today the Foreign Minister; and the Minister in charge of Sudan affairs, Mr Ibrahim Farag Pasho.
no
Diplomatic observera here believe that there will be Immediate Treaty abrogation- at least not until Icing Farouk returns from his Mediterranean honeymoon.
is
Britain planned to send n naval squadron to Alexandria and Fort Said but cancelled the visit last Monday because Egypt did not notify agreement in ume for the administrative arrange ments to be made.-Reuter.
America Wide Open To An AtomicAttack
+
Rival Camps Clash
The Hague, Aur. 10. Amboinese familles from Indonesia Ilving in a camp at Den Bosch' 'near here 'today" attacked another
camp.
Police, attracted by the nalse, stopped the fighting, Rent three seriously In- Jured men to hospital, and found a hand grenade and an assortment of knives and knuckle - dusters, ---
Reuter
RANGOON WARNING TO U.S.
Washington, Aug. 19. America's Civil Defence! Administrator, Mr Millard } Caldwell, said today that not one city in the United States that "has even approached the Asin
Rangoon, Aug. 19. "New Light”, leading Ran- said today foon
newspaper, the relations between
and the United
Navy point where it could with- will
Royal
Re-Disposes
Warships
stand an
now."
atomic attacki
States
undergo an "unpleasant
panese forced on
The armed forces, he added. The
mary
It. ди Peace
popular
Burmese Bariles: "
language
opinion
League, backbone of
iha radio talk, would not be paper often refects the able to supply adequate pro- of the Anti-Fascist People's tection against an atom bomb Freedom
the altack on the United States. the Government. It Bald
Mr Caldwell said that his or- American stand on the Treaty is called ganisation had "done the basic is motivated by what Basra, Aug. 19.
welo The British naval forces in necessary planning, and
appold from
leadership In the Persian
Сольн Gul the biggest have the basic organisation" for saving the in the men since the warmure effective civil defence work in munis But the paper sald being re-disposed, it was re-an emergency.
Asian nations consider This was only about onc-. "Justice, and fair play" equally There
practically un-ported here today.
fifteenik of the preparation linportant. anittious view in responsible
The cruiser Euryalus, which
The journal predicted failure needed. He called for 15 mil- polllien circles that unless one
has
off been standing by
llon volunteer workers in the of next month's conference in party or the other does some-
Abadan, has cancelled a two- 10 relieve thing
the present tension and quickly-then the day visit to Mina, near Kuwait, civil defence programme and San Francisco "in the context the presently prevalling That on the north-west coast of the more money from Congress to of
situation". situation will deteriorate.
Persian Gulf, to take on stores carry out the programme. 86
Mr Caldwell is fighting an In inviting nations that fought would lead to results the nature from the fleet auxillary
conference, the of which nobody ventures
to Duquesne, which is expected to per cent cut voted by the House Japan to the foresee.
arrivo as
at Abadan on
of Representatives Appropria- United States said the meeting Tuesday
tions Committee in his funds for would be mainly to sign the Joined: to- Euryalus will be
this scal year,
of the Treaty It carlier The Committee reduced
gathering
DOMESTIC
CRISIS
A no less serious factor.
morrow at
in choroge
Fort
her present an- the destroyer Chi- by the
1st Destroyer amount from $535 million
"Anal" draft
the circulated
to not
11
this month, to re-open
the opinion of political observalrous, of the
is the domestic crisis, Flotilla, which arrive here re- $65 million, saying that Mr negotiations on the Treaty
which has later been brewing cently from the Mediterranean. Caldwell had no "realistic" plan Associated Press.
begin mapping plans for the defence of Africa vers, key link in the Western strategy and home of the world's largest uranium mines. To
Premier
Work On The Farm
Budapest, Aug. 19. The Hungarian Prime Minis- announced The last time he had visitedler. M. Istvan Dobi,
was still owing, Antebli said.
Dr Daud Husseini In Jericho today that he will join a collec- was six or seven months ago, tive farm in his home village, when he went to demand
the head of the M. Dobi, settlement.
Dr Husseini complained that Hungarian Smallholders Party, announced his decision on the the country's condition wus
anniversary of "The
King cond extremely bad.
of the must be got rid of and we will constitution
Republie of Hungary.
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France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Southerning Government Rhodesin answered a call for the defence of Africa by Britain and the Union of South Africa to attend the conference, and the United States sent observers.
newspaper,
A
for civilian defence.
ever-rising
Other destroyers now in the over the
PERSIA ACCEPTS living, and open criticism of the Persian Gulf are the destroyers
GERM WARFARE and Chey-
London, Aug, 19. Administration and the increas-Chequers, Chieftain
Persia has Should an attack come from control over ron.
accepted the The frigate Wren and some the air, 70 out of every 100 American invitation 10 take public liberties.
store, ships are also there. planes that Russia would launch part in the San Francisco con- The Egyption Government
Commodore A. H
Wallis, against us would get through to terence on the Japanese peace mouthpiece
Senior Naval Officer, Perston the target," Mr Caldwell unid. treaty, Teheran Radio sald to-
He warned that there was day. Misri, said today: "It is learned Gulf Command, who planned to from a responsible source that visit
also the possibility of sub- She would be represented by the statement to be made in Euryalus.
marine-launched A-bombs Parliament before the end of
The frigate Wild Goose, of biological warfare Lister Hill nounced later, the broadcast month,
the the Persian Gulf Division, ar- announcing the
Democrat Senator off of the Anglo- rived from the headwaters of cald today: "It will not be long" breaking Egyptian negotiations, will the Gulf of Basra during the before American fighting planes make ΠΟ mention of the week-end to join the tank-land- would carry atomic missiles, abrogation of the 1830 Treaty ing-ship Dieppe.---Reuter. and-the-1899- Condominium, or
13 participate Force Colonel Edwin Bland Jr..this Egypt refused because of the dispute with from the United States Embassy
in South Airlea. Britain over British troops in und the the Suez Canoj zene British opposition to- Egyplia annexation of the Sudan.
of Italy and
The conference here plans to A further contributing factor, draw up a blueprint for a joint M. Dobi said, was the progress network of caminunications
the collective farm castern and central Africa made by
of Hungary during the current the development of part facili
ties and telegraph, telephone and. radio communications.
harvest.
BRITISH DELEGATES
between
the
positive steps to be taken for the realisation of Egypt's national aspirations."
Basra, will remain
ALLEGATIONS BY REDS
Foreign
on
and, her Consul in Japan and others whose numes would be an-
added.---Reuter,
Mr Hilh a member of the Sub-Committee, told a. reporter that he believed atomic war- heads had now been reduced
Sequel To West Point Scandal
Output In America A
New
Record
Washington, Aug. 20.
The
The country's total output of goods and services swelled to a record $320,000,000,000 -- your volume in the second quarter of this year,
Commerce De- partment reported on Sunday.
This reflected a nearly 20 per cent increase in
ill overall output. ກ. the first. 12 months
ed
The British delegation consists of 20 members led by Lord
in size to the point where they Africa's strategic importance Ogmore, Minister of Civil Avio-
Ai Misri explained the for Western defence was illustion. The Ministry of Defence,
this by
could be used as aerial artillery. would Mr HUI said that he that People's trated by its role in World War the three Armed Services, the
saying
the Egyptian
urgo the Joint Chiefs of Staffi I as the springboard for the
Ministries of Transport and of Government cannot complete
and the acting Defence Secre- Allied invasion
its study of the legiation
Robert Lovett, to Sicily.
Efforts since have been Colonies are represented.
tory, Mr London, Aug. 19. needful to a treaty abrogation the Writing in Szbad Nep,
before the end of the present
A British Committee which reach early agreement on an official organ of the Hungarian made to develop the continent. communications have
Last year, a 20-year
agre Parliamentary session.
sponsored a delegation to the increase in air power-Reuter. Workers (Communist) Party, he But poor
Berlin Communist Youth Festi- Al Misri added: "At the sald that he was led to this hampered both troop and supply ment was concluded
wrote to the Foreign eley by the "deep Impression"rovement and economic deve Britain, Portugal and Southern
Mr Herbert Secretary
Morrison, gained on visits to the Sovietlopment. Aiready, the uranium Rhodesig with American Anan-worst, Salah El Din Pasha will val
the announce the breaking of of today alleging
that American the mines of the Belgian Congo are clal assistance to develop he Union,
Beira the negotiations and, if neces-authorities in Austria had leot where
of Beira port
and the growing prosperity of the the world's largest.
railway in Mozambique, Partu-sary, an extraordinary sitting of
to young British girls without food, Soviet Caucasus.
guese East Africa. It was the Parliament will be called
The letter, from the Com- first big step toward the Im-consider the Government's final water or sanitation for 15 hours,
of African com-decision on this question."
munist-sponsored British unications and
will supple
Festival Preparatory
Comm/th ment the existing railways and
POSSIBLE ACTION
to the long ob roads. It provided for the
wastatement yesterdayo The breathing
New York, Aug. 10, space thus Office doubling of the Beira and the construction
of a rail gained is calculated to help both the "difcuties" encounterext in Bridal
The New York Criminal and Buk
Association from central
Southern parties to make a genuine et- Austria by some young Rhodesia to Beira and Lourenco fort to get out of the present delerates to the Berlin Festival. Civil Courts Bar
The letter which the Compounced today that. It has
President Trumen Marques Mozambique. A impasse, the paper sald.
in
today mittee, sent
asked for asked speculat The Egyptian Press railway line alrendy the Belgian Congo with ing on what would follow any an impartial tribunal "in the assure the 90 ousted West Pain June Rhodesia through
Vic- ville and established in North toria
West that in the event el a showdown subjects. Router farms was given officially as been 4,250 Inst May, with a member Africa and three American ob- African const where it connects Egypt would declare the Brilish ship of close to 200,000 peasant servers are at the conference. with a rail line across Rhodesia garrison stationed in the Suez
to Belts on Canal Zone an "enemy force, families. At that time the land They are, headed by Mr Angus and Mozambique
the Egyptian withdrawing owned by collectives was slight- Ward, United States Consul in the Indian Ocean,
Army
labourers in the camps and cut- and include ly higher than 13 per cent of Nairobi,
Davies and Air In addition, there is a trans-cing off food and water supplies.
African the total arable land-Reuter. Colonel John
usable for
Such an action would not be highway motor trafe from Capetown to likely to have an immediate effect Algiers on the North African on the British garrison, which is but the ecast. From Algiers, it runs to nrgely self-sufficient
be would Kano in Nigeria through Fort csulting altuation
French Equatorial ugly," the paper added-Router.
VISITS CANCELLED
M. Dobi, himself of "working peasant" origin, owned about two neres before the land re
was given form and. more in 1945.
several
The number co-operatives
of agricultural from collective
ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON Technicolor
The United States has showa growing interest in the deve- lopment of Africa and its strate- gic importance.
American bomber bases have
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in dollar value." But the figures were inflated somewhat by higher, prices; making the speed-up, eeem greater than actually was.
The rate of gain was slacken- sing, for the April-May- quarter produced, only
of the $51,000, 000,000
entire 12 in the dially in Washington.
months following the outbreak Mr Robert Daru, general coun- sel of the, Association's committee of the Korean war. on justice, said the request – way i The report said the $7,000,- increase stemmed
Elizabeth evcrtual abrogation of the treaty. Interests of fruth and the rlencodels that their discharge is not | $7,000,rial rate rise which
The newspaper Al-Ahram says of freedom of travel by Brideg (final and will be reviewed impar | occurred.
Lusaka
to
Falls
on the
In
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MINISTER MADE
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The
of
sent to Mr Truman yesterday. 000,000 from the gathering
He said the Association wants to wholly make sure that the 90 alleged
cribbers have not been irre-Antum of the National: De-
vocably dismissed on the basis.
For
out-
Programme Teheran, Aug 19,
the preceding three- Persian Minister
the judgments cf the review quarters, Defence had had only a Justice, Mr All Heyat, regnod boards at West Point and will be minorliy share of the Increase;
While combined Federal, today, because he has been made afforded further contideration. a Senator by the Shah. Half the The men were ausled because State and local government Persian Senate's 60 member allegedly
lay for goods and services rose, participated in lay are elected and the other half cheating system under which from an annual rate of 163,009, ure appointed by the Shah, intcrmation on examinations was 000,000 in the first quarter to hold a Minih passed on by men who had taken $80,000,000,000 in the second, They cannot
dropped The Egyptian Foreign Ministerial post. Mr All Heyat's suc-them to cadols in later quiz consumer purchases to Capetown-United try today deurbed a proposed cessor is not yet known.-Reu- scallops at the academy: United from $208.2
PASS. British naval visit as "incom- ter.
Lamy Africa to Stanleyville In the Belgian Congo and Nairobi and turns sharp south through Tanganyies, Rhodesia, South
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