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VOL. III NO. 43
S. ENGLAND BEGINS TO THAW
Gales Expacted
London. Feb. 22.-Tempera- tures in Southern England rose slightly today na snowploughs and roud gangs continued their | all-night struggle to open blek- ed roads and force a way to village. marooned in the severe snowstorms of the last three days,
A slow Bmw began in the tomon ! are and the Southwest But Gree were inflentions of tonen front early tomorrow morning Bhc mpatorist.. "were wethed to beware of treacher-
ous surfaces.
The Alr Ministry tonight Kave warning of gales romand The auth and cyst coasts.
SEA FOAM FREEZES
In Lorton, it was 1 freezing i al midday but the
mercury had
climbed to 35 degrees Fahrenhet by 4 pm. compared with 29 degrees yesterday and remained there for some hours.
Although there had been no snow nt one point on the Norfolk roast.
foam from receding tide froze bard at midday.
In South Devonshire, mulk froze in churns while writing collection
The
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1948.
Infuriated Jews Six-Engined. Kill And Wound
British Troops
TO BOMB OUTRAGE
SEQUEL TO BOMB
Jerusalem, Feb. 22.-The toll of British killed and wounded in Jerusalem reached 20 tonight as Jews thronged the streets yelling revenge against the British, who they blamed for the bomb outrage which wrecked the Jewish Ben Yehuda Street, causing a death-roll- according to hospital reports-of 45.
Rescue workers laboured under arc lights and car headlamps tonight in the rubble of four-storey buildings over the 100-yard area blasted by a dynamite- packed lorry at dawn today. As 1,000 men and women laboured in the wreckage, from which 60 idly injured had already been taken to hospital, reports came of attacks on British soldiers and another heavy explosion set the sirens wailing again.
Five British soldiers died and six were wounded when their armoured lorry was blown up by an electrically-detonated mine. Later a British soldier was shot dead and another seriously wounded while they were being treated in hospital for injuries received when their lorry was blown up by a mine.
British uvre
serviceneTA
The contai whe entered the by the roadste and Dartmoor hospital was believed to be a Jew stocks of fodder were collected for i *T** transpor! to Torpely Pift is of Great Bleak Mour, where wild ponies congrostate in bad weather.
Armoured cars, converted into Stuwploughs, three times opened
the were killed when Jews mortared their billets in Jerusalem's Street of the Prophets.
Earlier today, in the fighting which the rond between Hope Valley and broke out immediately after the ex- Chapel En Le Frith. m the Peak | plosion, when the ery "British" mur- district of Derbyshire, Centrul Eug- derer" went up among the antry. land, where coaches and laxis were | Jews, two Royal Air Force men and stranded-Reuter.
a soldier were shot deal and an MOSCOW'S BLUE SKIES Army padre wounded when the Jews Moscow, Feb. 22-Moscow today attacked every passing Britisn enjoyed blue skies and several hours vehicle. of sunshine with the exceptionally mild temperature of less than two degrees below zeró Contigrade,
A little sum fell, but Red Square and the main streets of the capital were alnust free of snow, except for slush from earlier falls. Reuter.
TROOPS WITHDRAW
So eritical did the situation be-
omati
the sense of the explosion towards vate individant or even
Arab villages along the Jasa Road.) disorganised
of people-all Troup signs so far point to careful organi- UNOFFICIAL DEATH ROLL
sation
and plotting behind this out- roke."
According to reliable Jewish
He added: "The irion that the sources, the deathroll of the explo- British are doing what they can to son was given tonight as 51 al-
maintain law and order can now be though offeinl police Ggures re-blasted sky-high." main at 33.
TWO-WAY TRADE Jerusalem's central prison, tonight, hands,"
WITH JAPAN Jewish fire directed at
OWN
į
representa-
The firing. which lasted 40 minstes, did not result in any eas ualties.
Tu North Palestine, three Arab houses in the town of Samakh were blown up at dawn, touching off a 15- minute gun battle.
casualties were reported.-United Press,
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NEW BRITISH NAVY
Plane Crashes MAY BE IN MAKING
from
Cherbourg, Feb, 22.—The body of 311 unidentified passenzer missing French Alx- engined flying boat, known have had 19 persons on board, was washed up on the Cher- bourg bench tonight, the Cherbourg authorlites confirmed.
A bag containing the plane's papers, a life-belt, a wing float. the back of a seat and a 20-foot long plece from the hull were also washed up,
Patrol ships; coastguards and police who have been looking for the plane suspended their search after dark tonight be- cause of the heavy seas and a raging blizzard.
Buconfirmed reports said that another body had been pleke:f 11 the Normandy coast. southeast of Cherbourg.
112)
A local man, who clalniril that he saw the crash, said: "1 was on the beach at about 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon when I saw an arroplane which seemed to be in trouble.
"After a few moments I heard a muffled sound, followed im- mediately by an explosion. The plane had just come down in the water."Reuter,
CARREIRANTESMANBERRIETAN+gsazrezkerodial FANA
Experts' Blueprint Hints
London, Feb. 22,--British naval experts believe that behind the screen of recent Parliamentary storms and Government reticence on the apparent decline of the Royal Navy, Britain is working on a great blueprint by which she will again become mis- tress of the seas in the atomic age.
Protests by the, Opposition Con- servative Party on recent decisions Ho scrap empital ships have
Nerce.
been
The Government has consistently refused, however, to provide figures Jon Britain's present naval strength and has been equally secretive about future plans.
With the decision to serap the battle- ships Nelson, Rodney, the Queen Elizabeth, Vallant and the balllecrul- ser Renown, Britain is actually left with five battleships-the Vanguard, Duke of York. King George V. Anson and Howe. But none of these is in operational service and all are im- mobilised.
The last two are being used ឆន
But The Navy", the magazine of the alert Navy League, self-appointed training ships.
two
of Britain's senpower, When the second World War this estimate of the began, Britain had nine battleships, present naval strength;
battlecruisers, four aircraft, Battleships nil. nircraft carriers carriers, 26 cruisers, 10. destroyers' two, cruisers 11, destroyers four with ami 30 submarines. the Home Fleet, 24 lo 32 in the According to unofficial estimates, Mediterranean and the Pacific, sub-therefore, it is true to say that never marines 12, sloops four, frigates 19. before in modern times has the sea- These estimates are thought to be going strength of the Royal Navy fairly near the mark, although no bec
no been brought so low. ameint ogures have been available The Navy League goes further since 1939 when the official "Return amt declares angrily: "The British of the Fleet" was last published.
CIVIL WAR in ManchuRIA
Nationalists Start
A Counter-Attack
units Nanking, Feb. 23-Powerful Government were reported last night to be striking out from Ying kow, South Manchurian port, to counter-attack the Communists in South Liaoning in an attempt to offset the Government reversc at Anshan.
churia.
Navy today is completely powerless to maintain the national prestige, or to protect in any way the national home."
LATEST EXPERIMENT Last night, Vice-Admiral D. C. Ford, Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet, held a press conference which received little attention..
He told currespondents of experi-
ments in installing a gas turbine erine in a motor ganbout-making Britain the only country la the world with a vessel at sea
Ineor- parating this development-and de- clared: "We cannot tell where this invention is going to lead to, but I feel it may be the start of a new ern. certainly at sea."
prow
The next step, it is understood, will be to install gas turbines in a pulsion from the air and land to the water and opening up far-reaching passibilities of naval speed and manoeuvrability.
the
Such a development, applied to an entire fleet, would remove Navy's great dependence on olla headache in war, and a headache
also in Britain's anoncial crists of today, when vil means dollars.
Many senior naval officers nic believed to feel that the day of the battleship, as we know it, gone and that HMS Vanguard will be the- last-of-her-type-to-be-built.
REASONS FOR SECRECY
NO ARAB COMMENT Mr Guy Cox, the Exchange Tele-
Up to mid-afternoon, no Arab graph correspondent in Palestine.
statemen! had been mule pubile. who was carlier today reported to have been shot, died from injuries In any event, only officials of the
Ther
Arab Committee and they | received in a car crash. It Was officially reported here.
He was 27re not in Jerusalem at the moment Palestine now awaits frgon Zvi
take the would
responsibility of
Strong Government reinforcements ; in the area of Penki, industrial and | destroyer-thus bringing Jet Lound reprisals against the British commenting.
continue to be tunded in the port mining centre north-east of Mukden.. which have been periered by
An unoccupied house, Jewish of Yingkow via the sea route and its
in an obvious attempt to cut railway came that British troops and police Beigin.
"Commander-in-Chief, Mennhem
awne, was destroyed by Arabs in their arrival in Munchuria terves as communication with the Manchurion who had rushed to help in the rescue
the Jaffn-Telaviv No Man's Land
a morale booster in an otherwise metropolis and to deprive the city The Jewish Anoney the today. There were no casualties in depressing situation, reports from of its coal and power supplies. work had to be withdrawn for their | Jewish National Couch (Vand the operation. The house was
Mukden said. own safety.
Leuni) issued a joint statement to-
demolished after an exchange of fire:
Communists are also expected to Three Arabs were killed and three night Warning the Jewish injured when three mortar bombs munity "not to complicate matters force of
muke similar attacks on Fushon, the between Haganah and a combined com-
With the loss of Anshan. pro- British and Arals police. Government fell on the Misharah quarter, behind by taking the Inw into our
reports claimed that main coal-mining centre in Man which
a road block Nationalist was nanning
Reuter-AAP forces trad exerted astride the rond to Jerusalem. was ofBelally stated,
"strategle price" from the Com- The statement said Jewish institu-
NANKING PARLEYS #police tions were investigating today's out
munists by making them pay highly armoured car was silenced when rage and were in contact with the
for every lock of ground gajned, Shanghai, Feb. 22. The veteran Canberra, Feb.,-22.-Prime Minis-three other armed police car::opened authorities and "Jewish ler Joseph Chifley announced today up with Bren guns near the Jewish tives abroad.-Reuter.
White admitting that the fall of Manchurian generals, Ma Chan-ahan Austin was a serious Government Chang Tso-hsiang, Han Fu-ling and that Australia has arranged with the Agency, Intense sporadie firing con-
setback, the reports say the fact that Chang Yuan-la arrived here yester- Supreme Command for Allied Po time for some time,
JEWISH STATEMENT Jerusalem,
the Communists had employed four day afternoon by plane from Peiping wers (SCAP) for a Umited resump- Several Jews in the areas fring the
urmies and suffered enormous and will entrain for Nunking tonight | study of atomic energy, and expert- tion of two way trade with Japan. ing the peene of the explosion were Jewish Agency
emergency meeting
casualties in their attacks made pos- for conferences with Government ments at present being carried out, Executive. not been! whunded and
sible for Government troops to word leaders.
it would obviously be gigantle off other Communist thrusts to the
waste of money to rebuild Britain's Generals Ma and Chang told re- war, northwest of Mukden, which is re- ported as no longer facing a Com-porters that the main purpose
of specie Picted navy on out-of-date munist threat.
their trip to the caplinl Was to
belleve that this, and Observers discuss
mensures to deal with the the fact that the Royal Navy lo critical situation in Manchuria. They changing its entire tactica! sald that
their
recommendations cedure to answer the atom bomb, The destruction of Manchuria's would include
to is behind the omejal secrecy, biggest steel plant, in the opinion of strengthen local defence forces, re- Some visualise the new British experts here, will make it necessary form the currency, speed up ship: Navy, ultimately to emerge, a a for the Government to shift heavy ments to the north-east of relief great fleet of super fast, small and industries from the north-east to food supplies and simplify the ad- heavily armed ships able to operate Central China,
ministrative procedure. Waedenswil,
over great distances, Switzerland. As it is, attempts are being made
They believe that the atom bomb Feb. 22.-A special ten-car ski to evacuate technicians who
General Ma, who became a na has made impracticable the strategy "People alighted from them, put a train carrying 349 passengers / drew from Anshan with the Govern- | tional hero in 1932 for his successful of fighting sea battles with big con-
ment forces and to re-employ them resistance against the Japanese in industrial plants in Ching Proper. Manchuria, expressed beller that the will fight any future war at sea with in centrations of ships and that Britain
Fresh Communist attacks were Manchurian situation was not hope- a great new fleet of reported yesterday as being made less-Henter.
ralders"-Reuter.
Hitherto Ricences
had
reported
Feb,
22.--Following
the
which took place after the explosion in the granted for unporting Japanese foods killed by pulire.
Jewish sector here today, a Jewish because unused Sterling balances in. The Jews were convinced that ur spokesman, SCAP accounts are convertible into British were responsible for the Benouneed: "I do not think there is
Gershon Hirsch, dollars.
Yehuda Street outrage, the greatest anyone here who does not know the Australia now has agreed to per- since the King David Hotel, British facts. According to mit some imports of raw silk, milling hendquretes, was
reports from blasted on July hospitals at this hour, there are 31 silk, rayon yarn and rayon textiles. 22, 1946, with the loss of more than dead and 88 wounded." All the proceeds will be used SCAP | 90 lives.
He continued: "Eyewitnesses gave
20 purchase Australian wool. The police are searching for anus statements in writing Associated Press.
EDITORIAL
armoured car
to the
seen speeding from effect that they saw a number of
Army trucks Caticl
armoured i police truck approach Ben Yehuda Street Just before the explosion struck.
an
House Cleaning Needed
Nanking
of
mlases the sigui. Heater of Mr George Mar- shall's statement to Cle House Foreign Affairs Committee on the subject of American aid to China. will be only because Chiang Hal-shek and his administrators find it impossible to stamarh high level
criticism. Alr Marshall autopted what might appear to he a peculiar role: while eblef sup- plicant for assistance to China, he made himself at the same time most forthright, public crille the Nanking regime. Mr Mar shall Is obviously aware that China cannot properly achieve ast reotiomle
recovery und the elvil war has been brought to a quick arid successful end. Similarly he in gravely suspicious that
Qie tije National Government, as at pre- sent constituted. Is capable either of winning the war or of promoting a domestic programme that will stabiilse the nation's economy. The same theme was de- veloped more fully by the Ameri- Ambassador, Dr Leighton Stuart. in an astonishingly out- spoken speech last week, and it must surely now become apparent to the Generalissimo that the de mocracies, who for so many years have placed absolute confidence in hit are rapidly developing a cynicism with regard to his Au- ministration that can only be ellenced by some drastic, and, at the same time constructive reform measures. The extreme rightists which combine to bring the Nan- king regime into Internationat
cant
match to something, ran away and were picked up a little later by an
other
No
29 SKIERS KILLED
Two Shocking Accidents
crashed today at full speed into vehicle, Eyewitnesses three-storey apartment house. evidence corroborates fully on one killing 20 persons and injuring point, and that is, that the trucks 44. were Army and police and that the people who alighted from them and put Rre to something were in Army and police dress."
withdrawin
The train rushed down a steep signals, with the engineer frantically incline and roured past several red
yanking at the faulty brakes,
STEEL PLANT LOSS
with-
measures
In view of new inventions,
the
pro-
Jono "atom
New Welfare Centre For Hongkong
disrepute are equally as damaging to the power and prestige of the Generalissimo as the Communists. They
give um sign of seriously endeavouring to tackle the prob Iems which are crippling the country. but strive only to retain
AGENCY'S DEMANDS
Just before the Waedenswil xia- privileges and positions of power.
tion, both tracks of which were ec-
Construction will begin this in Kowloon, the SPC now handles One of
Hirsch disclosed Mr Marshall's most sting-
that the Jewirl, cupled by other trains, the ski train Agency demanded. ing accusations was that the Na-
that Sir Henry was switched on to a sidetrack and week on the first social welfare | @pproximately 300 cases each day. lonalsts lacked proper high level
Garney. Chief Secretary
Three office rooms in the new of the smashed at 45 miles per hour into » centro on Hongkong Island leadership. militaristically and
Palestine Government, take
centre will be given to the Social these house, which immediately collapsed.planned to combine the facili- Welfare pullileally. Moreover, there is an
Immediate steps:
The locomolle went right
Council's case workers. alarming amount of evidence to
1. issue an order
ties of several relief organisa-Here, ill or needy adults may apply through the building and the first the British Army and support that criticism.
and be recommended for grants, loans, police from three
carriages were nearly With its
com-tions under one roof. vastly superior resources the Nu-
the Jewish area of Jerusalem, with pletely destroyed. One dead pas-
free hospitalisation employment, tionalist troops should be able to
the exception of troops and police senger was still wedged among the Dght
the civil war in such a way
„who need to be in Jewish areas on debris
has been decided it is as to brlug it to a
duties. essential a successful coni-
They
should, impossible to
to remove him tomorrow. clusion:
he added, be accompanied prominent- the ominous signs are
The engineer, miraculously escaped that just the reverse is happening.
by Jewish police personnel.
wil shock und a a few minor injuries, Likewise treatment
2. British - personinet should be although the whole
Houch Wis of Shanetal and
given- orders to subject themselves on top of the
englue, to hore thorough searches,
the heavy freighter type. After the devastating; blast, Jewa The District Attorney of Horgen, In the street-among them know Me Walter Kunz, made it clear that rufflan
May, un riff raff-shouted that the brakes had failed, but sold it was the Iritish hadl
still inexplicable since the train was outrage.
equipped with a set of Westinghouse However, Hirsch was cautious.
brakes, electric brakes and hand- "Right now the Jewish Agency or brakes--Unted Press. the Tanah in not yet in a position
come forward
CRASHES INTO RAVINE with a definite charge as to who placed the bomb Paris, Feb. 22-At least nine people that blew up Ben Yehuda Street," were killed and 21 injured tonight he said.
when an autocar, returning to Lyons "My indirect methods, it has been with
a purty of skiers from the conveyed to us from Arab sources winter sports resort of Valloires, not that they were not connected with far from the Italian frontier, crashed this outrage. That is added to the over the side of a ravine into a river, fact that people were seen in police It skidded on ice near a bridgeto and Army uniforms, to which can spanning the river are and bumped be added the fact that the amount into a tree before crushing over the of explosives which must have been ravine. used for this purpose was not likely Nine
of the and economic situation is devoid of any? Arm, láng-term political polles. Vested interests,
and commercial, appear to be power, and whlle flicy rentaln an, no aid from the United Stales or any other country can bring about China's
best recovery. The Resture which the Generalissime could make at this time would be a wholesale revision of his Ad- ministration, bringing luto It com- petent men with progressive ideas whose first interests are the wel-
fare of the people. Such a move would do more than anything else to guarantco generous American assistance and would reawaken
the confidence of the rest of the democracles in the one man who sil captures the imagination of the masses.
to
perpetrated the
་
bodies have
so far
been
to be found in the hands of any pri- recovered.--Reuter.
1
*
all-trades, In addition, volunteer workers from the various organisa- tions will help in the planning and administration of the centre.
The Kowloon centre now handles approximately 1,000 casos ench weele and it is believed that the new Hongkong centre may be forced to take care of many more. The So- cial Welfare Cotinell hopes that in the future It. will be able to build similar centres in each of the other of Hongkong's districts.
33
Financed by the Social Welfare and clothing or foed grants, Council, the one-storey building will A verandah will be provided for be located on the grounds of the old the distribution of food to TB cases, Government Civil Hospital in Sai until such time au the Government Ying-pun and will serve the whole inaugurates it's full anti-TB pro-
The building itself will be con- of Hongkong until centres can be gramime. “
structed of brick and will bullt in other districts.
be 114 In addition, there will be a large feet long and 33 feet wide. At the
can be used front will be a small The building should be finished walling room which
courtyard and in operation by the first of for different purposes by different which may be used
relief societies,
a playing well-equipped ground. kitchen to prepare relief goods, an "The new scheme to amalgamate Similar to the combined relief
administration office, and centre now operating in Kowloon,
shower
the various relief organisations under (nt Observatory
one roof will be a great economic Hill), the centre rooms where any person may come
A clothes washing room saver in that the different societies will Include the activities of Social to bathe,
he will be provided for women who can use the same rooms at different Welfare Council case workers,
for the
their times of haven't adequate facilities in Society
Protection
of day", Miss C. 1. Scott- Children, the Boys and Girls' Club, homes.
Social the Government's Education Depart ment, and possibly the TWCA and will be used to house a night school *e" will also solve the problem the YMCA.
froin 5 to 7 for the primary grades, of critical office shortages and put Two large rooms will be set aside Others will be used as meeting and closely related relief facilities in for the SPC, where congee will be
Aame rooms for the Doys and Girls' one central spol. In this way,
too, given to needy mothers and milk Club.
needy cases can become familiar their
unutes. undernourished
The centre will be staffed by two will a single centre and not be con- Instruction will be given in proper ense workers from the Social Welfare fused by having to visit different feeding methods and health habits. Council, two night teachers from the rooms in different buildings all over Mathers may also bring their babies Education Department, trained the city. All organisations should to the centre to be bathed
and nurses from the SPC, two cooka, an reach closer co-operation and greater ** weighed. At the similar relief centre (office bay and a caretaker jack-of-efficiency".
Moncrieff, Secretary of the
In the evenings, some of the rooms Welfare Council said.