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Emblems As Protection
Peiping, Apr. 27,
The slaying of a Chinese boy by an American Marine depot guard, who took him to be a looter, and the death of three children through the explosion of a Marine artillery shell, have prompted villagers in the western suburbs of Peiping to take occult defensive measures.
stitching
Parents are lucky emblems On the clothes of their young sons and daughters, according to reports in the Chinese press.. Boys are protected from calamity by the em blem of a green fortoise- symbol of longevity—and girls by that of a yellow rabbit.
These emblems are con- sidered equally efficacious against the evil designs of a certain old witch who, ac- cording to a village rumour, is roaming the locality.-- United Press.
ALARM IN RUHR
Herford, Apr. 27- Alarm over the food situation was growing in the Ruhr today ns reports spread around cities that even the reduced weekly bread ration of 1,500 grammes would not be met in full during the next seven-day period.
"Workers are growing more and more desperate as the days go by without any sign of Improvement,"
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PALESTINE REIGN OF TERROR TO CONTINUE
No Truce While UN Deliberate
TAIAN LOST
TO REDS, REPORT
Reverse For Chinese Govt. Forces
Nanking, Apr. 28. Chinese official sources today declined to confirm the dis- patches published in the Hsin Min Pao that the Communists stormed and captured Tainan, a railroad city 35 miles south of Tsinan. One official source said the report "appears likely."
anve
The loss of this key point on the Tientsin-Pukow railrand would be a severe blow to government prestige as well as demonstration against the pro-Government claims that Chian
had Yi's Shantung Army
ANOTHER REPORT •.
Jerusalem, Apr. 27. The Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang, now operating under a single command, announced in pamphlets today that they had no intention of obser- ving a truce while the United Nations studied the Palestine question.
"The struggle goes on," said one Sterm Gang pamphlet distributed in Tel-Aviv.
The announcement came as Palestine had its first quiet day since April 16, when Dov Gruner and his three Irgun comrades were hanged, but tension increased in propor- tion to diminishing interest in United Nations action..
There also was little interest in the anti-extremist campaign started by five Hebrew morning newspapers, Davar, Haaretz, Mishmar, Hazofe and Kil-Haam. The papers published 10,000 words of quotations from Jewish lenders, condemning territorism.
British abservers were not opt'mis- tie over the Jewish Agency plans 10 launch another "educational" anti-extremist campaign. Mest thought it came too into.
Reports that the Jewish Agency, had offered to place at the Govern- ment's disposal special Hagana armed patrols to help suppress ex- Such an tremism were denied. offer has neither been made nor refused, as was published abroad.
countries are withdrawn.”
was
Conell for Judaism. This group contends that Jews form a religion," not a state, and Palestine therefore should not become a Jewish nation, I also wants Palestine to be declared an independent state immediately but the United Nations can have some military and political concessions in it.
The state would be Arab-controlled because
Immediate independence would give the Arabs majority power When tiny Fernand von Langen- to cut off Jewish immigration. That have of Belgium, temporary As-is
five Arab states are why that sumbly president, taps the opening trying to make the Assembly dispense gavel, the Big Five and a big batch with the fact-finding ideas and settle of the 65 member nations will be
whether Palestine Immediately rendy to squash an attempt by the should Arab states to begin a full dress de-Press. bate of the stormy Holy Land situation.
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AN ASTROLOGER DOES SOME FORECASTING
London, Apr. 27.
Leonardo Blake, astrologer who claims to have predicted the correct date of the German invasion of Poland, peered into the future today and forecast:
Whether was can be provented over Russia's policy toward Germany will become clear this summer. Some tragic events" will befall Britain's Royal Family in August, when King George will be the centre of the "most critical · constellations",
A situation will arise in
a matter of weeks, when Mr Winston Churchill, or, at least, his. policies, will have a triumphant comeback.
Blake told his prediction to the Sunday Pictorial in an interview headed: "Well, Mr Blake, Let's Wait and Sec."
The Pictorial said Blake produced evidence to sup- port his claim that he not only had forecast the cor- rect date of the invasion of Poland, but had predicted Nazi purge of 1934, the downfall of Hitler and Mus- solini and the mysterious. disappearance of Hitler's body. His book, "Hitler's Yast Year of Power," crea- ted a stir in 1939.-United Press.
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BOAC Flying-Boat Still At Hoihow
The Hongkong office of BOAC was still awaiting news this morning concerning the depar ture of the BOAC fiying-boat from the United Kingdom which had to spend Saturday night riding the aca off Hafnan and yesterday anchored off Hoihow.
Bad weather prevented the air- craft from landing at Kal Tak on. Saturday. Latest reports alato that the aircraft
and
passengers nro quite safe and that it only requires improvement in the weather for it to resume and complete its flight to Hongkong.
The London-bound BOAC flying- boat which had to turn back to Hongkong yesterday owing to technical trouble took off for England this morning, with Bangkok its Arst port of call," met
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aircraft carried Lieut. General H. C. Robertson and the General Omeer Commanding, Major General G. W. E. J. Erskine, both of whom are on their way home take part in an Imperial College
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The Assembly will try to limit the first emergency session to setting up a commission to examine issuca making up the most complex pro- One well-informed source said he blem the world has scon for believed tho Inposition of a "con-generations. Because they are not completely encircled Shanlung:
trolled areas" siege on Jewish sec- ready yet in declare themselves on
extremiam
the question of Palestine's future, the The Hain Min Pao dispatch date-tions affected by
big countries want to avoid, at least lined from Shanghai quoted reports approaching-United Fress.
'India is expected to have the first Republican constitu- until September, choosing sides from Shuchow without confirmation
SAME OLD COMPLAINT the controversy, The big powers
tion by October 31 this year-that is the deadline fixed in that Talan fell to the Communists
might even try to avoid serving on the provisional schedule recommended by the Business Com- after only a month's occupallon by
Jerusalem, Apr. 27. the proposed fact-finding commission tite Governinent.
mittee of the Constituent Assembly. The Jewish terrorist organisation, and for the neutral commission of The ration had recently been cut
Irgun Zval Leumi, in a statement small states to prepare a basis for
League, represented The Committee's report and re- the from 2,500 gramanes as the result of
Issued tonight, said: "There will be a fulldress debate in September.
and commendations are likely to be merely the wealthy landlords the gup in the arrival of shipments Another Hsin Min Pao dispatch no peace in Palestine, in the Middle
Constituent politicians, the correspondent found The Secretary East from the United States and a brenk- from Tsinan reported that the Red
General, Trygve submitted or in the world until the
the Assembly Assembly on Wednesday or Thurs- strong support for Pakistan in some conference called by Field Marshal down of local supplies. No
the con-army stormed into Taian on
Moslem areas, among, "not British occupation regime in Pales-e, hoping to push firmation of further cuts could be evening of April 25 killing most of
tine and Trans-Jordan is abolished through the extergency meeting in dat today's meeting, the Committee politicians but farmers, workers and Montgomery. obtained from official sources, the division garrison troops during
and the British forces in these two sittings cut out the usual frills
and welcoming ceremonies. Pre-recommended the setting up of two other persons whose views do not the night long street fighting.
expression."— sident Truman will dispense
with committees, the Union Constitution often Whether the Communist assault troops infiltrated past the Govern-
The statement was issued to the the usual statement of welcome. Committee and the Provincial Con- Reuter,
stitution Committee. The first com- of the United The positions of the parties follow: mitee will draft the skeleton of the
VICEROY'S TASK on the press of Taian or ment regulars enst a highly competent German source have
Nations defeated these. forces before
special session, which is
BRITISH POSITION
Union cons
constitution while the
New Delhi, Apr. 27. - dedared. "The stage has been reach-attacking the city is not clear from scheduled to begin.
$12 work on the mo
model of the The Viceroy of Inxita Admiral cd where oficial British announce. fleld dispatches.
"Britain
Viscount Mountbation, will leave to is going to the United
The British Icel ments are regarded as 'just ridiculous' It is known that General Wang Nations Organisation only-for-new Land problem has grown too big and on minorities in tribal areas and the the North-west Frontier Province, iwo reports with the reports morrow with Lady Mountbatten for and when the authorities say one thing, the people are often inclined well an General Tang En Fo's 85th in Palestine," the statement added.
Yuou-wu's 12th and 10th armies as international approval of her rule too hot for them. They want the
United Nations to seek away out report of the Adhoc Committee, scene of recent communal distur to believe just the opposite."
army have troops in Talan. There
but have avoided promising to abide which the President has set up to bances, going on to Rawalpindi on A Military Government announce-
Unsigned pamphlets, printed in by recommendations. They appear frame constitution of the Union Tuesday.
the Is a possibility that these regulars
Judiciary ment today described the food situa-fans
This visit opens a crowded week have left Peace Preservation units the Arabic language, were distribut-to seek three things. 1. Official re-
an Arab town | cognition of the tion as poor throughout the North to garrison Taian while they pursu-
Constituent ed today in Jaffa,
presented
for those responsible for dimculties they Assembly in the form of a White future, both Indian and British
India's Rhine Westphalia region"-provinces ed the Communists into the moun- near the All-Jewish city of Tel-faced in Palestine and at least par- which include the Ruhr and Rhine-tains of Central Shantung, permit-Aviv, calling on Arabs to "co-operate tlal endorsement of their polleles.
Paper at its next session in June or
Other outstanding events will in- land-and admitted that of the meat in the Communists
ting the
clude: Firstly, the third preliminary to infiltrate with Jews against British Imperi- ration only 50 per cent had been
2. Assistance from
ter that, the draft constitution : into their rear in sufficient strength ullam in Palestine." honoured in the past week.
Constituent As- to storm the clly walls. Reports circulated in the highest The loss of Talon would smash British and German quarters last the land communications between and would week that a new wave of food. Nanking and Talan, strikers and demonstrations were break
the contact between Itely in the Ruhr are no longer per- forces directed from Tsinan and sistent-Reuter.
Hsuchow base,-United Press.
EDITORIAL
The Palestine Problem
no world shortage of
Tympathy for legitimate Jew- ish aspirations in Palestine, but these are dally being Jeopardised and thrown into disrepute by the activities of terrorist gangs. These blood-thirstly revolutionaries who
their con make no pretence of
Cons for law and order, have adopted the Catuous
, mat derrorim will au- .
complish more for them than reg- son and negotiation; the
that intimida- tion is a rod calculated to break
It Is any back.
26 is a theory that history has explo
time and The Intrafiligent attitude of the Jewish underground is difficult to appreciate. appears
Again,
It
to be based on the notion that once the bated English mandatory- rulers are out of the way, every. thies in the Garden of Eden will once again be lovely; forgetting that" the fundamental problem of Palestine is the incompatibility of Jews and Arabs as near neigh- So Intensive have been the anti-Belfish' activities of the
bours.
Jewish terror Fangs
'weeks' that' the real Palestinian problem
uf become lost; and this has been emphasis. ed by the quiescenes of the
Arab which has stood by and hed the "struggle betwe British rule
and Jewish anarchy. This week the Palestine dispute goes before the General Amem- bly of the United Nations- cru- clal, tost, not for, Britain who han already. Indicated, that, she feels the time has arrived for her to
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NEW FAR EAST CHIEF
London, Apr, 28. BOAC announced on Sunday that Mr John Brancker, General Manager of the British European Airways Corporation is to become manager of the Eastern Division of the British June 1. Overseas-Always-Corporation on
Mr Braneker who is 36, is a 601 of Sir Selton Brancher, former Director-General of Aviation, who, was killed in the R101 crash of 1030, He will be in charge of the Far East, Indian and Australian runs of BOAC.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Govern- cluding Russia) in policing and ad- for four weeks After the draft has senbly, which opens in New Delhi Nairobi an area manager for Central
the
ment tonight warned the mayor of ministering. Tel-Aviv that any further terrorist, thefts of Post Office vans anywhere 3. Guarantees in Palestine would be followed by military and political the total suspension of postal and the Middle East. Lelegraph facilities in Tel-A.lv.
of the
of administrative relieved duties in the Iloly Land, but for. the irresponsible Jewish elements. Continuation of their murder and nilaging while the United Nations are deliberating on the future siatus of Palestine is bound to prejudice the whole Jewish case. In any event, one pertinent ques- Mon
is bound to arise: assuming UN decided in favour of esta- blishing a permanent home for Jews in Palestine, can responsible Jewish leaders guarantee contral ΟΣ of the lawless elements and bring peace to the Holy Land? degree of influence
more recently shown by Zloaist and Jewish
chiefs is not very com Agency forting and there is nothing show that a willingness to com- on their part would be to the hothead, extre- to the The UN
UN Assembly is of its most together delicate tasks-bringing 1wo states with diametrically op posed aspirations. The hope of compromise is slender, while any outright decision in favour one party guarantees open war. fare. The
alternative third
10
of
is the establishment of an Inter- national mandatory body, which would probably, be just as objec- (onable to the Jewish extremists who want Palestine as a national home and nothing short of this will placate them. Russla, such a ready... erlito" of Brilishi rula in, Palestine, has a fine chance of displaying the quality of her statesmanship over this issue.
The Tel-Aviv municipal council protested against the Government warning and stated that it could not be held responsible for the security of Post Office vehicles throughout Palestine-Reuter.
EMIR FAISAL ARRIVES
New York, Apr. 27. Emir Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, and second son of King Adbul Ibn Saud, arrived in Naw York by air today to attend the special session of the General As- sembly opening tomorrow to study the question of Palestine.
as an observer.
free
of
tomorrow after an interval of three Secondly, General Lord Jarnay, months, senior member of Viscount Mount batten's staff, will fly to London next week-end to give the Cabinet a first- hand account of the Viceroy's views, following his series of talks with, Indian leaders.
who
been circulated to the provinces and units as required by the rules of present the Assembly for two months, the influence In Bnal session the Constituent Assembly will be held in September or October, allowing it to conclude The Jewish Agency and other Its task to October 31.-Reuter. Zionist groups apparently will accept
FAVOUR PAKISTAN a portion of the Holy
Land of British or any other domination and free also of immigra The New tion bors. This is a retreat from the said in n original demand for all Palestine. queting a report from Whether they would accept strategic pondent in India, areas trusteeship is not clear. More farmers and workers were among extremist Jewish groups
the strong supporters of Pakistan his visit to Peshawar is to attempt Independent Jewish state comprising establishment of a separate Moslem to case what the President of the all of Palestine,
tate in India.
Moslem League, Mohammed All The newspaper declared that con- Jinnah, recently referred to as trary to the claims of the opponents "grave situation, which has arisen who insisted that in the Northwest Frontier Province, of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, President of
(Continued on Page 4)
want ori
The third Jewish element, Aque Mingrely, is represented by ant Zionist groups like the American
Thirdly, Mahatma Gandhi, New York, Apr. 27. York Herald Tribune saw the Viceroy half a dozen times leading article today,
recently, is expected back in Delhi its corres, from his tour of Bihar Province, in that Moslem the middle of the week.
Viscount Mountbatten's task in
CHURCHILL v. ATTLEE-ROUND 3
London, Apr. 27. Mr Winston Churchill tonight accused the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, of going back a quarter of a century to find excuses for the mismanagement
trous
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to make any Emir Faisal statement on the Palestine issue; but
Mr Attice's charges and Mr Chur-Snowden, Chancellor in the Socialist referred reporters to Azzam Pasho,
point by point, Government in 1024, of which Mr Arnb. of the
chill's replies, Secretary
follow:
Altice himself WAB -
ITCI- League, who is attending the session
Alice: I remember very well ber....Lord Snowden, on the Azzam Pasha said: "In this world,
when Mr Churchill was Chancellor second reading of the gold standard if you are not selfish and believe in
of the exchequer the most disos-bill, anid that while Government had Chancellor of the century." acted with undue precipitancy, ho democralle principles, you will find
Churchill: "During my tenure of and his Socialist colleagues were in a solution. We intend to be unself and blunders of which he that offer in.. the Conservative favour of a return to the gold
humane.' and hummbers of the Palestine evidently feels his de standard at the earliest practicable
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while moment.": Arab High Executive, headed by ment is guilty."
money wages remained Emile El Ghory. Secretary of the
Mr Churchill was replying, in a
Attlee: Alice: "If we had been content Palestine Party, also arrive in New statement to the press, to Mr Attlee's to allow industry to proceed at a York from Cairo-Reuter.
charge before the Scottish Trades languid pace; if we had been con- Union Congress on Friday that Mr tent to have over 2,000,000 unem Churchill had been Britain's most ployed, we should not be finding our disastrous Chancellor of the Excha-coal supplies insufficient" New York, Apr. 27. The Big Five Powers today form- held tite post from 1924 to 1929.
quer of the otatury. Mr Churchill Churchill: "It was under the So- compared with the number of wago to the General Manager, South cd a solid front against on 'early
cialist administration if 1023 which earners engaged in productive In
China Morning Post, Moming It was Round Three of the most followed the Conservative Govern-dustry...... It. showdown on the Palestine crisis ns
no fault of theirs
Post Building. of unemploy if they are now made too mumerous, the
General Assembly, shunning { spirited, exchange yet made outsidement that the number
Hongkong, It is the fault of this Government, Anal House Meed Arst-passed
Cheques should be made our pomp and ceremony, rushed arrangements
ho (Churchill, that is constantly heaping upon them emergency Churchill, Britain's war-Ulmes Prime Attles:
to British Flood Relief Fund.” meeting to study the Holy Land, Minister, und Mr Attlee, his war-while Chancellor of the Exchequer fresh tasks, many of which are need- problem.
time deputy and peace-lime suc- that brought us back on the gold less and futile.”
For the purpose of acknow÷, Diplomats and Palestine experts cussor, Mr Churchill had started it standard which led to the crisis in He left unanswered, however, Mr ledgment will donors kindly from throughout the world are here all with a hitler allack on the Las the, coal, industry from which we Attlee's charge.
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"In his speech he (Chur- chill) also attacked the Civil Service." Churchill: "This is utterly untrue and must be deliberate distortion. What I said, and what I repeat, was that we have now too thany officials
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