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Took Out Own Briton And His
Appendix
Brisbane, Jan. 14-A soldier who took his own appendix out with the aid of a mirror and an thin ordinary knife, received
Military Cross and Bar at 9:1 investiture here today.
Kerr
fle Captain Robert McLaren, a 50-year-old Scoltish
from surgeon born veterinary Bundaberg, Queensland.
Captain MoLaren said:
know
"I
And I had appendicitis would die poless I did some- thing. I used a mirror and an ordinary knife for the operation —it was bell. But came out all right and used jungle fibre to stlich the wound."
IIe performed the operation
In Mindanao, In the Philippines,
in August 1944.--Reuter.
GUERILLAS
REPULSED
Arakhova Defenders Hold Out
意
Wife Slain
By Terrorists
ARABS ATTACK JEWISH
SETTLEMENTS
Jerusalem, Jan. 14.-A British civilian, Mr Thomas Berry, employed by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and his Jewish wife; the daughter. of a Tel-Aviv judge, were shot and killed early today outside the headquarters of the British Second Infantry Brigade. The assailants ambushed the couple from cover out of sight of the sentries guarding the headquarters, the police stated.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1948.
A British army officer searching a new commer- cial centre in Jerusalem today for a Jewish woman, reported to have been taken away by Arabs, found her lying in an alley with three bullets in her head. Troops cordoned off the area and conducted a search Athens, Jan. 15-Defenders
but no trace was found of the woman's attackers. of Arakhova withstood five as-
A British soldier was shot and wounded by Arabs saults by 500 guerillas on Wed-
in the Majdal area, in southern Palestino yesterday, nesday in the battle for the
army reports stated. town now in its second day,
Arab reports suggested that many British Meanwhile,
police press reports said at noon.
Arakhova is only 20 miles from armoured cars today answered more hundreds of Arabs were engaged in
Isolated the 8ghting. where the Crock
Icalls for help from two
The police came under rifle fire Army storied Jewish settlements on the Jerusalem. mopping up operations with an Hebron Road in south Palestine where from hill positions as they tried to amphibious landing on the Northern Jewish sources reported a large source fight through the Arab cordons to. shore of the Gulf of Corinth on
of Arabs had launched heavy dawn relieve the threatened Jows, Tuesday.
Unknown
gunmen ambushed The Greek Air Force strated the
nying
the King of the Iraqi attackers and dropped ammunition Strong bands of Arabs brandishing Consul-General on the Jerusalem- and supplies to the defenders of rifles, knives and an assortment of Hebron Road and seriously wounded Arakhova, which is being attacked other weapons, rushed from mountain the chauffeur and two women oc- cupants of the car-sald to be the from three sides.
Consul-General's relatives,
According to one of the wounded, the attackers wore army uniforms
No contact has been possible with the town fox -soveral hours, due, it is belloved, to damage to the town's wirclens.
attacks,
village strongholds and swept down from the Hebron Hills to join the quickly growing Arab force attack- ing the Jewish settlements
The Arabs barricaded the roads Three national guarți companies, and laid down mines to prevent the three platoons of gendarmerie and police from Teaching the settle- 40 armed elvillana comprise the įments. town's defenders,
In Northwest 'Greece, querilla pressure is reported to have forced the Greek army to withdraw from advanced positions near the Albanian frontier. Skirmishing continued, the reports sald-Assoclated Press.
The attacks began with a force of 20 or 30 Arabs raking one of the four grouped settlements with automatic rifle are and cutting the settlement's telephone ilnes.
COUNTER-FIRE
The Jews Inid down
ear
and civilian clothes.
Secret Evacuation Plan
Lake Buccèss, Jan. 14.—Great Britain propared today to lay be- fore the United Nations Palestine Commission an expanded and highly secret plan for pulling out from Palestine.
The Commission, which will supervise the partilon of the Holy Land, has agreed to a demand of the British delegate, Sir Alexan- der Cadogan, that the detailed blueprint for transferring authority to the United Nations will be kept "strictly confidential."
Betting a pace beyond expectations, the five-nation
RTOUD is ready to follow up the Cadogan hearing by calling Moshe Shertok, political chief of the Jewish Agency, on Thursday or Friday.
Without walling to learn the latest British
programme, the Philippines delegate, Mr Vincente J. Francisco, faces up to the main problem by preparing to introduce a proposal designed to pred the Security Council into considering Immediately the necessity of an internallonat polico force to back the partition.-United Press.
Russia Seen As Big Naval Power
AIMS
TO BUILD SUBSTANTIAL MERCANTILE MARINE
Washington, Jan. 14.-Lieut P. W. Rairden, Jr, of the United States Navy, today asserted that the United States "must face the prospect of great Soviet sea power in the future," with a large Red Navy fleet based in the Port Arthur-Vladivostok- Petropavlovsk area" of the Far East.
Mob Violence Is Answer To Gandhi's Fast
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MARSHALL PLAN: SNYDER MAKES A NEW PLEA
Washington, Jan. 14.-Mr John Snyder, the Under-Secretary for the Treasury, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that he was opposed to requiring the 16 European nations re- ceiving aid under the Marshall Plan to use their dollar holdings in the United States to help pay for European recovery.
Mr Snyder said it would be, folly to force them to do so as the citizens of these countries, he said, had about $4,800,000,000 in dollar assets on June 30: last year..
He added that it would be difficult to get the cash readily on most of these assets as some were already pledged for loans; that the Europeans needed the funds to cover their normal trade and financial operations, and that their holdings already were below a "safe" amount needed to keep their own currencies steady.
Mr Snyder explaining the financial manner in which they should be aspects of the Marshall Plan for taken," he cald. European recovery in a testimony
assistance to After stating that calling on Congress to approve it Western Europe should be provided in the form and the amount laid as a combination of grants in aid and down by President Truman, also loans, Mr Snyder said: "The criterion said that (1) Part of the United for selecting one or the other form States' money should be provided as should be the capacity of recipient grants in aid and part in loans, countries to earn in the years, to come The amount required to be repaid the dollars which would be needed should be held down 10 the to pay the interest on capital. - We "borrowing country's capacity to should take care not to insist that repay in dollars."
attract
in
Investment
these countries contract additional doliar debts which will absorb their DOLLARS GUARANTEE
doller, earnings in such a degree as "Russia's mercantile ambitians in the Pacife and the planned growth gramme funds should be set aside future trade and private investment," (2) Five percent of the proto operate to the disadvantage of of the Siberian fisheries and the to
guarantee private American he said.Reuter. Petropavlovsk terminal of the Arms United States dollars in OX- Northeast passage must be added to change for the foreign currencies other factors calling for naval ex- they carn
through investment pansion in the Pacife.”
those countries, the purpose being On The China. Front Ife said the largest Russian fleet to
private undoubtedly would be based in the abroad. violence broke out here and dis- Dardanelles, but the second largest spent on buying goods inheri
New Delhi, Jan. 14.-Mob Black Sen as
"Russia once again (3) Congress should permit the strongly for control of the United States aid money to patches reported the Slaughter would be on the Pucine Coast, with supply for the Marshall Plan coun- of 1,300 Hindus and Sikhs in the Soviet northern fleet along the tries in Canada, Latin America and Pakistan as Mohandas Gandhi "Murmansk Run" and the Baltic sea elsewhere, or to be spent in ono entered the second day of his fleet in third and fourth positions in Marshall Plan country to buy goods
for another one. "fast. unto death in protest point of size, against Hindu-Moslem enmity.
· TRADE EXPECTATIONS (4) Separate agreements will be
from each Lt Rairden saw Soviet designs of country assuring that steps will be
required
beneficiary From his bed on the terrace of trade with Indio, the Netherlands taken to steady its currency. This
bida
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Big Victory Claimed By Nationalists
Peining, Jan. 14-A spokes-
JERUSALEM EXPLOSIONS Five explosions shook Jerusalem tonight. They
were attributed to Jewish mortar barrage on the Arab Sheikh Jarrah quarter by Haganah. Machinegun fire could be heard. his villa, Mr Gandhi told those at East Indies and Indonesia,
Observers on Mount Scopus over-his prayer meeting today: "God "A Viet Nam victory in Indo- would be done through a balanced man of Gen. Fu. Tso-yi's head- made me start my fast and He alone China would give the Soviets acccess budget, tax law changes, and at the quarters claimed today a major enn make me end it.”
to that trade and the Russians hope proper time by devaluing inflated victory in the three-day battle with southwest of Pelping, which to enter the Indian market as soon as currencles to a point in line He said he was becoming so weak the British pull out," he wrote. "How their true buying powcountry w main Communist forces in was said to have crippled the that he might not be able to speak that will affect the Dutch in the to his followers tomorrow. He also East Indies no mun knows, but the said he was receiving appeals by Indonesian Republic might
looking the attacked quarter said that some 12 to 15 shells fell on roofs of Arab houses as passersby heavy seatlered for shelter.
TRAIN DISASTER counter-ire and the battle develop-
also
(5) Each beneficiary
roads from on the Palestine coast, killed four cablegram from abroad urging him posed to deal with Mas dis- currency in an amount equal to the Hopei, thus Ifting the threat to
Quebec City, Jan. 14,-Five people | ed with the arrival of Arab TC- Border-land battles between the killed when the east and west bound inforcements whch were said to be twin cities of Tel-Aviv and Jaffa, trains on the Transcontinental Uue rucing along "the crashed into each other about 400 Bethlehem and Hebron, as well as kilometres northwest of Quebec Cily from the West, in cars and lorries carly today.-Reuter.
to join the. Arab battle groups.
EDITORIAL
So Much For Public Opinion
RADIO lateners
even
rale
པ
derive will cold comfort from the Portmaster-General's statement
of
broadcasting future
plans which he made at a press con- ference this werk. The only conclusion to be reached is that no plans exist; that any lacas of been shelved. .expansion have
ZBW and ZEK, operating on couple of kilowatts are to remain
and third
fourth stations-shameful examples of the narrow concepilous which so persistently motivate official Presumably it was only policy, because questions on the subject were submitted that any refer- euco at all was made to Hong- kong's radio stations. The answers in effect were: a new transmitter is desired, but there are no funds available, and that In any event delivery will take two years; consideration is being miven to the employment of women announcers, but as it is not
the BBC to the polloy of engage a great number of wonion well. Announcers,
Sindle has been réguested, bit this is tied up with the generat question of housing government departments, and of course it will .: the subject of cost
A
مواد
more
(1) the majority of ZBW Isteners would like hours of transmission extended to include a morning session (2) doth announcing and presentation of РГО СГАттен needed improving (3) more and populor request pro- Krammes were demanded ·(4) more funds should be made available to ZBW for im- proving its programmes. This months was publie opinion fvé
wishes ago and to meet these ZBW has increased daily trans- missions by half an hour four days of the week and by two and a half hours on Sunday, but the suggestion of an early morn- ing session has, apparently, been brushed aside; request pro- grammes have been increased by one: announcing and. presentation remain on the same
indifferent
+
#
level; far from more funds being made available for ZBW, li has to inferred from the PMG':
be statement this week that the Treasury is inclined to be more niggardly than ever. In the light of this studied disdain for public wishes i can only be assumed that those who control policy and finance regard radio stations in Hongkong
an unnecessary. luxury which must not, under money. Introducing commercial broast-
atty
become even a consideration, charge on small casts, especially in Chinese DIG.
eneral funds; being
will insist upon grammes, is now.
that if people coll- sidered, and in due course a decl- buying radio sels and paying. 912 elon will be made. It was also
year for a receiver's licence. indicated that
the functions of that does not entitle them to ex- the Broadcasting · Advisory Com- pect first-class radio entertain- mittee'sire to act in a'consultative ment from The government and advisory capacity to the studios. Perhaps one day these Postmaster-General so that he be gentlemen with Buch wide kept informed as to public ideas horizons, will consider asking and wishes connected with broad- listeners if they are willing. casting generally. The plous hope pay a little more in lleence, fees: is expressed that the Advisory in order to be able to prevido Committee's recommendations are the sort of radio servien they acted upon with somewhat more readiness than the substantial ex- pression of pubilo opinion con talned in last year's ZBW survey. conducted by this
vapor. general conclusions, of that poli Are worth recalling. They were
The
to
And perhaps, too, they feel Inclined to give some MERITANCOS that in future they will take sidlice of public opinion. They might do this but reluctant-, ly we are forced to the conclusion that it is mori/unlikely.
Arabs and a four-year old child.
to end his fast, but that he must He then pointed out that the Soviet persist in it.
goal for the end of the present Five- Two members of the Higher Executive and
Year Plan was a merchant marine the District Com-
"I remember my boyhood dream twice the pre-war missioner of the British police drove of united India," said Mr Gandhi, means about 3,000,000 gross tons of alze and "that to the Jewish sciticments near
"Now I am an old man on the brink Russian merchant shipping on the Hebron, south of Jerusalem, carlier of death. If the Hindus, Moslems high seas by 1950."-United Press.. today to halt Arab attacks on the and Sikhs and others achieve real, isolated settlements.
lasting unity, my heart will dance."
United Press,
the
An army spokesman said officials had driven to the nighting area, 30 kilometres south of Jerusa- lem. He added that British troops had not yet been called into action.
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DRIVE AGAINST
BLACKMARKET
Press
be required to set aside local
the Peiping-Paoting area: dollar trants" in ̄aid-given-by-the
He said that both sides used main United States and use it for the re- duction of its public debt unless the forces in the battle for Laishul, 45
for miles southwest of Felping.
Onec United States authorise use
pores.
construction or development pur- the Reds broke into a section of Laishul but were driven out by rein- The United States should lend
The Nationalist rein reached Pełynn and gold and dollars later, possibly this fo year and probably the next, to Chuangting near Laishul and drove furnish the European countries. with the Reds to the mountains westward, bard money reserves to bolster the The spokesman said the Communists heavy casualtics-United value of their own paper money and suffered DEFIES DOCTORS
keep it steady.
FREE CO-OPERATION 14. Mahatmo New Delhi, Jon.
"If entire aid for European coun- Gandhi, the spiritual leader of India's
Shanghai, Jan. 15.-Throe foreig~ trles were on a loan basis it would millions, 30 hours after his last meal, RED INDIAN TACTICS The Arabs were reported to be disregarded his doctor's advice and ners were among six persons arrested be practically impossible for them in a hoarse whisper, spoke to un yesterday afternoon as the economic to meet additional annual churges using "Red Indian" tacties, encircl-nudience of 300 people who attended police continued their
drive
to from their earnings of dollars even ing the settlements under cover of his prayer meeting today.
eliminato blackmarket transactions after
trade and Investments return in gold and fire from snipers while continuous
to normal," he said. nd foreign currencies. machinegun
came from the On the second day of his fast, to The foreinners taken into custody Emphasising the necessity of "pre- Jewish defenders lining the perime- bring about the unity of Hindus and were two Russian emigrants and a serving the spielt of trou, and ter of the settlement defences.
the Moslems, there was no sign of any Syrian merchant.
riendly co-operation between. condition
Meanwhile, police *circles All consulates represented in Jeru-change in the
sald United States solem have been granted formal Mahatma, except that he did not that 12
of illegal gold and permission by the Palestine Gavern-walk so briskly and his voice was on charges
minimum
of dictation staying at their posts, although the foreign currenty dealings, ment to bring in troops from their quieter than usual.
will be to the Marshall Plan's recipient na majority will take advantage of the handed
rescue, to the district court for tions in financial aspects of the plan. countries for consular guard duties,
One
of 25 was evacuated I trial tomorrow.
"I am sure this country does not The arrested. Syrian is said to be wish to dietate to lese riendly from Chengchow, 38 miles north of
Hankow, bringing the total of per the owner of an import and export | countries either the particular mea- Grm-Reuter.
sures they should take or the exact sons evacuated by air from Hupeh
and Honan weeks ovinces in the last two
125,
back to Chengchow for a second load todoy, ng to return to Hankow before
fire
it was learned tonight.
of the
"The day is not far off when shall not have The Irgun Zval Leumi, Zionist re- to speak or move," he said.
enough strength visionist terrorist organisation, to- night accused Haganah of kid- "Although the doctors advised me napping Irgun members and warned not to attend this meeting, I am not It to
in the doctors' hands but in the
to stop.
It also gove warning against hands of God. I do not care even leiting Palestine become "a second if I die."--Reuter.
| Greece.
were
Jewish sources here claimed to- night that up to 100 Arabs killed when they were blown up, on minefields. In attempting to smash Into the Jewish settlements while another 300 were killed in the fight- Ing.
The Arabs were pinned on the minalelds by automatfe fire, these sources claimed.
Oficial Arab quarters denied these
Cold Wave Hits
Parts Of U.S.
nese. arrested last weeks 15r Snyder urged that there
European Govern-
be
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Truman Warns Congress
Washington, Jan. 14.-President Harry Truman `fold Congress it must have standby price control, rationing and other strong anti-inflation powers or take responsibility for a possible "destructive” slump. Congressional Democrats followed through by introducing legislation to provide the US$40 "cost of. living” income tax cut which Truvian asked for every income taxpayer and dependant.
EVACUATION URGED. Hankow, Jan. 14.----All. American missionaries in the Yangtze, valley. region were urged to leave today as fighting broke out near Laohon kow, undangering the air evacuation planned for tomorrow.
The American Conmal, Mr. Leonard Nelson, was said to have asked the missionaries to make immediate use
He sald of evacuation facilities. that some refused and insisted on
air
A rescue, plane
Dow
a trip to Laohokaw. Fighting between the Nationalists und raiders of Communist Liu, Po- chen flared, today at Tenghsien, 40 miles northeast of Laohokow.
Daniel Nelson, chairman of the Lutheran World Federation in
charge of the air evacuation pro- gramme, sald be feared that the
Chicago, Jan. 14-The winter's
Oghting will endanger the rescue most severe cold wave today chilled The President sent to Congress a Senator Robert Taft, Chairman of work tomorrow. residents in a wide belt from the 136-page economic report bristling the Congressional Committee on
Nelson said he did not receive any?? claims and British sources were Rocky Mountains to the Appala with warnings of inflation and a the economic report, declined.com- notification that the Chinese. Air unable to confirm or deny them.-chians, and in International Falls, serious businėse slump. It reported met Truman reportedly told De- † rescue •plane Sint Paul to land at on Mr Truman's message. Force has granted permission to the Reuter.
Minnesota, where residents are the U.S. was at a high level of Mr suffering a foolio oll shortage the prosperity." It
forecast "another mocratic Congressmen he wanta Laohokow, adding that we would mercury fell to 30 degrees below year of splendid achievement. But partial restoration of the wartime not dare to land until permission is zero (Fahr)...
It' reported this seeming well-being excess profits tax to make up for granted."—United Fress. rests on a wave of indiation which his proposed US$3,200,000,000 cut in
Jinxes. Sub-zero temperatures, were "re- | has already colised serious, hardship individual Income ported in many other communities and preseris grave concern for thờ in, the North Central States, where future."
NEW YORK ARRESTS New York, Jan. 14-Federal Bureau of Investigation agents today arrested four men over an attempt to ship TNT to Palestine and war- ronts were issued for the arrest of two
other men believed to be on their
way to the Holy Land: The charges are based on tho
the shortage of fuel oil complicated the problem of keeping warm.
In his message President Truman widened the breach between himself and the Republican Party on his in-
Landslido Kills 21
the main
Just as the message reached Consistent demand for two programmes Dar-Es Salaam, Jan, 14-A land- Other low temperatures includedcross Secretary of the Interior Jullus the Republicans 'oppose:** Kalide killed 21 Africans, seriously. seizure on January 3, of 30 crates of 25 below zero at Pembina, North Krug testified before the Senate 1-Enactment of Truman's
||10|| injured 15 others and destroyed, the TNT llated with the United States Dakota, 22 below at Duluth, Min- Banking Committee · that if price point anti-Indation; programmis, in homes of 31 more on Customs as containing "used in-nesota, and 20 below at Alexandria, control authority is granted he will cluding authority to control prices Kilosa-Ifakara Rond dustrial machinery and parts.".
Minnesota.
at once "freeze" retall and whole and wages and ration scarce foods. The arrested mon-were charged The cold extended far south of sale prices of coal, fuel oil, gasoline with violation of the United States New Orleans, whera temperatures and all petroleum products. He said code in giving false statements re- dropped to below freezing United it might be necessary to ration fuel garding exports-Reuter.
Press.
Toil
today.
2-Use of all of this year's mile of road was doluged in prospective US$47,800,000,000 budget rocks, earth and torrents of water, surplus to reduce the national debt. Hum were buried in, the debria,ma ----Associated Press; /
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