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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1955.
WHY
UP
"The boys are having one of these under-water film shows."
Conoun Express service
DID THEY HUSH
DID
THIS
-AJOR HILL, of That was why the Italiana bud
M
Turned the Fede and Rs 1,000 Jews over to Major Hill.
who had de- Centerl Hitler. They were astonished and by
the British Intel. ligence Service,
Arriving on the scene Major had
faced Hill sent à curt order to Yehuda mysulled never anything like it before. Arazi, the leader of the Jews on the isembark Nothing in King's Regula. the
The order was tions had prepared him for immigrants.
this.
The date was April 1946. On the surface, it seemed a simple enough affair. The Italfans had seized a
to
to
Fude, 1
gust.
His ultimatum
FILI. then sent an ultimatum ship If Unl
the migrants in-
Arazi's reply was devastatingly unexpected.
any
to
cargoes.
17
the antagonist they roumrl.
Much of their ignorance With in part due to the lack of in- formation the Brush
public received about
what was real-
ty happening in Palestine.
Only British wider laid hands on an immigrant the ship would be blown up. together with the soldiers. immigrants
the und
R- Thuy preferred death to a turn to the European soil they kathed.
when terrorisk Cart:ages of the Irgun and tho Stern Gang 18- wo curred did realise what bitterness had been secumu- lated against
STORY?
★ After nine years the full
tacts are
given.
of a
bizarre incident that caused
an
outcry against Britain.
it was the cotton-wool of diplomatic censorship that smirched our name, But is Whitehall any wiser today?
by MILTON SHULMAN
I have, for example, exominică
cuttings
The
were
wrecked
Megal
YEHUDA ARAZI
He led the Jews who defled the British by sailing to Palestine ... and in the face of his threats the British gave in,
were
thus
A Big Task RENAMING THE BUSHMEN
By LIONEL HOGG
Darwin.
F you have had difficulty
children then take pity on the patrol officers of the Northern Territory Native Affairs Department.
They are planning the biggest task
ever handed out to them the renam- ing of the more than 14,000 aborigines in the Terri- tory.
Within 10 years they hope that names like Murdering
Juck, Sugar Bag, Tar Pot, Elio Duck Foot, Nose Peg Jimmie, Lett Bye, Dog Face Jessic Pumpkin Head, Galloping Mau-
die
and Horse-Ears Charilo will no longer be thrust upon local inhabitants in constant touch with the white man,
The patrol officers' Job will not be easy, They will first have to beat the taboos which continually change the abori- gines' names.
Old bushmen who have spent years with these people do not think the white man can change their Slone-Age customs,
UNSPOKEN NAME
them dies his tribesmen may not men- his name for a certain period.
WHEN one of
tion
On Melville Island the name may not be spoken until the totem poles rot and fall on the grave,
And with the Mudbra, tartbea Djinghali, and Wadamen it may not be mentioned until the dead man is reincarnated. They believe that the dead re- turn to earth in 10
YEATE BA
animal, bird, or fish,
If a fellow tribesnan liberately, or unwittingly,
de
11st
the dead man's name, ha breakn a taboo and can be dammed for life.
When a tribesman dies, others with the same name change t rather thin risk a friend calling them by name and so brooking
the inboo.
died ro- His name was Bicycle. Frightened to break the taboo, Melville Islanders today call
A Tiwi tribesmen contly.
all bicycles motorbikes,
FINGERPRINTS
Telophone 52278 called the Fexte just as it mediately left the ship soldiers was about to leave the port would be sent to take them off of Spezia, Investigation re- by force, vealed that the ship carried dev 1,014 Jews planning enter Palestine illegally.
By this time the British were well
highly- aware that organised campaign of illegal im migration Into Palestine had
Major Hill was a prepared been instituted by the Zionists.
to call the bluff. The troops The British had called upon to to other countries
help them were taken of the ship, the port number of art was sealed off and a war-
immigrants that Itali civilians employed stem the growing
anchoredt akmgside the
never suspected ships slipping out from Merit- ship
of the being permitted he sent a tele- there This was maller that
tuat genuine soldiers. terranean ports make the Fede
Kram not less strong than this, stealthy sagte Palestine called for higher authority than Spezia affar. They tell only a
disaster Almost as incredible as the story 171 this predicting widespread very meagre Excount with their forbidden
a major
in the Arab world, together with itself is the fact that it has taken Aruzi was now determined to dramatte
story. Thus while other countries he ass of the flasra-Bagdad- all these years to be told. Why exploit this situatan as melo-
The route.
telegram anti- Hallas
the delayi being WON dramatically
he could. 标
British resentment by the Jewish should be kicked
Faced with 凸 hideous and offered an ideal opportunity for
events, the my answer. these The
task the anti-British propaganda.
Versam l
was constantly ritish public was being coddled ruled the general and explained thankless sight of
of this decrepit old ship British
him the reasons for the position in the cotton-wel of diplomatie surrounded by troops, tanks, and
Cabinet decision. All went presentex and distorted. Often and decisions cutions warships was sure to go the censorship.
well, and not a dog barked." Now "The Secret Romis" is a sympathy of the Italians.
Mud Bevin, loo, overruled were indefensibir, and often the
wages paid into a trust account Soon the jxort area was Ixok that raises some very im-
vnly
Eust uf his Middle
advisers end truth never caught up with the
held by the Native Affairs De- ile.
Neld the
public crowded with reporters and in-
partment. revealed ourselves relations we habitants of Spezia listening historiced interpretatam, but of allowed 100,000 Jews to enter
recom in such Palestine-as had been our future conduct In Arazi's speeches and appeals
inable for support.
British did
spots as Kenya mended by the Anglo-American as hopeless amateurs. Empire and Cyprus.
Today in Kenya and Cyprus the negotia- committe- during nothing.
might British tops and officials face For if this version of these thons for partition, we events is accurate then there wall have been spared the hate similar conditions to those we Palestine Are we was something seriously wrong and violence and terrorism of found in
scrutinising with particular care with our Foreign Office experts, those days.
system, and our our security
Since the creation of the Stale the advice of our specialists and
Are our security pre 000,000 immi- advisers relations. of Israel sointe uf public handling What steps have been taken to grants have entered the country, cautions adequate to cope ensure that such mistakes will Few of the dire predictions of a hostile force in a hostile land? not occur again?
the experts have come true. And, And is cur view of events belig as events in Egypt have shown, we have received precious little presented
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The
Hunger strike
FOUR
days
after
Arazl
being detained
made his next move. There would be
a hunger strike on board until the British allowed the ship lo sail.
After 3 hours of fasting the dock of the Fede was vered A with unconscious refugees.
cable was sent to Atlice warning
parlant
him he would be personally THE responsible for any loss of life.
Listes
Bevin's plan
tep, and also #1150 which
nver-
Juwish
TA
British mis-
TUBE
with
imaginatively
and poreefully
to the rest of the
for oth pro-Arab world? cfforts,
une Where,
wonders, are
gratituds
of a since the foundation Jewish State L. 1948 have done been any attempt
to find out Omce
"The Steret Reads" telis a
TRIBESMEN
employed
drovers, stockinen,
cutters, cooks,
have
11
19
timber and domestics percentage of their
Some have as many as eight names. Unless the man Is known personally to the officer handling the case, the officer
At the 75th hour of the strike. much to direredit the judgment wrong in Palestine? Or are the What is being done to ensure trace any aborigine in any part
of our Middle East advisers.
same Middle East CAI the authors According to at the time, met
TH
Forged papers
will Bnd it difficult to trace the heirs when the man dies.
The patrol officers given the 14,000 task of renaming these people will have to concentrate on family names, totems, and birth places. These are the only names not under taboos.
The first renaming should begin early next year." And to keep a check on the aborigines,
have to the 14,000 will
bo the new fingerprinted. With tale of muddling and Inefficiency
names and the fingerprints, years that have passed these experts now? Has there that needs rebuttal or investiga-
of the Native Affairs Wo can no longer afford officers the Foreign tion.
what wont to make this kind of mistakes. Department hope to be able to
of the Territory. a British delegation headed by
authorities that we don't? Harold Lask, who happened to
laying down the law about what be in Italy
this book, Ernest Bevin, when should be done in Iraq and Arazi.
Foreign Secretary, Egypt and Cyprus? Arazi offered Laski his final he beerme
plan for terma The refugees had decid- had worked out ed, he said, that rather than be Pulesting which envisaged it, forced off the ship they would with Jewish help, as a model of what a Middle East State could take their own lives. rofugees were prepared to com-
very But his permanent officials
ESS serious, but still mit suicide every day in public unless their demands were met, and Chiefs of Staff warned him disturbing, in the evidence
In
book this
of revealed The
Arst 10 had already that this was impracticable and
British volunteered to kill themselves that the Arabs had, above ail,
astonishing Lupses in on the following day.
to be kept quiet. Thuan further security arrangements while the was trying to intercept Confronted but obviously sincere ueat the
plan dropped.
the methods used Discussing British collapsed Laski said he
British But Bevin was not the only to avoid
patrols, the would be willing to negotiato with Attlee and Bevin about the statesman who had to contend authors go on to say, "Hegganah
pro-Arab
(the Jewish Army) Intelligence Fede if the hunger strike was with the decidedly called off. A truce was effected bent of his experts. When some worked so efficiently that coples
Jows, and
cecaping certain of for the end a date set
n of top-socrot Army Movement decisiona the Nazis, Orders and Thirty-three days
termination by
polley negotiations.
Haganah hands illegally in Palestine in would be in its detention the British after
1940 tho Palestine often before they reached their agreed the ship could sail for November
Government announced they intended destination" Palestine with all on board.
Even more startling was, the This bizarre incident is only would be deported to Mauritius,
with which (t was Churchill was unhappy about case one of many recorded by Jon
their this decision Ho BIOTYL
possible in Italy in 1949 for the and David Kimcho in
Secret Roods,
to the Colonial, Secre Jews 12 et up an entirely. account. (The
message to
As the action to ship Betillows British Army unit, and Secker and Warburg, 158.). of tary. how the Jewish trickle of filegal Jewish refugees to Mauritius run it openly under the very Immigration which began in 1938 had treen, announced, he said, noses of the Military Police, had swollen to a torrent, by "It must proceed but the con- 1948.
with this lunatic Jewish Immigration was restrict- Navy
od to 1,300 a month and the these illegal ships.
Humiliating
THE
Very active in the first illegal
ditions in Mauritius must not immigration operations were the Involvo thepo people being Jewish Army units stationed in
up for the duration of Haly, caged the war,"
Whiont
the Last Palestinian Deepsto this firm request unit was pulled out of Italy
shipped HE book is a decidedly one-thood
По Mauritius looked as if this means of #ided, pro-Jowists version wor kept in an old French, organising illegal immigration of the story. The authors con- prison for the entire war and was over,
five years tem that their main problem in not released handling the British ade was later in August 1943.
until
But 10 officers and N.C.O. were hit behind to carry out an With forged
the sparsity of material. And Ono ahip was blown up on its audacious plan.
In these pages we emerge less as way to Mauritius, and in this roqulation papers they took Vilains than bowildered fools. case the survivors were allowed over
To the British troops the toxic to return to Palestine, Sponk- garage in the centre of Milan, of carrying screaming and kicking of these, Churchill wrole
and
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