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VOL. III NO. 47
British Honduras Dispute
Cruiser Despatched London, Feb. 26.--Britain, fenring that Guatemalan "ex- tremists" might try to land in British Honduras, is sending the 9.100-ton cruiser IMS. Sheffield to stand by in Belize, the colony's capital, a Foreign Office announced here today,
A note is being prepared protesting ngalust a recent press campaign in Guntemala Making the Stepublic's claims to Honduras territory with The Antorette dispule with Argentina and Chile.
The Foreign Office polcommun said Britain did not suspect, the Guatemalan Government Thelf of preparing
expedition against
British territory, but feared that the atmosphere engendered by the press campaign would foster "irresponsible and extremist elements."
The cruiser Sheffield was tonight om its way to Belize from Cartagena, Colombia.
The dispute dates bark to 18,
Anglo-Guatemalan when an
Com- vention was conclusled and ratifier! which confirmed the existing fron- Hon- ter between Guatemala and <lurare
Teve
3.J
CUATEMALA'S CLAIM Under a second convention
Britain undertook was later. provide £50,000 towards folk om muntentions by rail or road. this convention was
never rate tur came into force and the Chuate
alan Governnant subsetantly eland that the whole treate
Bil
1850 was invalid and that Guatemala hatta valid elm to the whole t British Honduras.
the
1859 Convention
Britain, disputing the claim, said hind merely confirmed
which! a frontier
Jand existed since Guatemalo achieved her independence in 1821.
As in the ense uf the Antarctica dispute, Britain's solution is to bring the matter before the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
This was poposyd by Britain in 1940.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1948.
Jews And Arabs In
Eight-Hour Battle
Mr Leo Isacson (left), successful Wallace-backed American labour party candidate in a special election in the 24th congressional district of New York, is seen here receiving congratulations in party headquarters by Representative Vito Marcantonio after his smashing victory.
-AP Wirephoto.
LITTLE ASSEMBLY OKAYS KOREA ELECTIONS
Lake Success, Feb. 26.--The Little Assembly recommended today that the United Nations proceed with nationwide elections in Korea in defiance of a Soviet boycott. The vote was 31 to 2.
by
Australia funct Canada oppaser | controls the North, which has one- the proposal, submitted
the third the total Korean population. United States. Eleven countries and the US occupies the south. abstained. The vole was taken by show of hands and no official record
The Guatemalan Government of the balloting by countries was prepared to accept the jurisdiction | mude,
of the International Court unly it
the matter is fudged "ex degun et bond" 50 that considerations. of with Ave satellites, under her von equity as well as of law can he lined boycott of the activities of
plended.
This the British Government was unwilling to accept and the dispute has remained at an indevisive stage
SITTING ON FENCE
the Little Assembly,
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
HOSPITAL TARGET
Jerusalem, Feb. 26.—Haganah quarters today said some 20 Arabs had been killed and an unknown number wounded in an eight-hour Arab bid, starting at midnight last night, to isolate the Jewish com- munity on top of Mount Scopus.
The target of the Arab attack was the million- dollar Hadashah Hospital and the entire Hebrew University colony on the Mount, which overlooks the old city on the West and the Dead Sea on the East.
A Government communique said two Arabs killed and three critically injured.
'Gald
--
were
Haganah quarters
Jewish At the same time, Mr George forces destroyed three houses in a Marshall. the Secretary of State, counter-attack on Wadi Joz on the gave a secret report on the Pales
tine situation slopes of Scopus.
and the American Haganay said the Arabs prepared policy in relation to the Security their attiek by severing telephone Council to the Senate Foreign Re- communications between the Mount intions Committee. Scopus settlement and Jerusalem und opening a barrage on the hos pital at midnight.
The Senators secrecy.
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Declaration By US, France & Britain Washington, Feb, 26-The United States. Britain and France today condemned the recent events in Czechoslovakia as "placing in jeopardy the very existence of the principles of liberty to which all demo- cratic nations are attached."
A three-nution declaration sald; "By means of n crisis articlally and deliberately Instigated, the usa of certain methods, already tested In other places, has permitted the suspension of the free exercise of Parliamentary Institutions and the Mr John A. Costello, 56-year-old establishment of a disguised dicta- Dublin attorney, has been elected torship of a single party under the Prime Minister of Eire in suc-cloak of a government of national cession to Mr Eunion De Valera, union.
AP Wirephoto.
three-nations cannot but He is the leader of the Fine condemn a development, the conse- Gael (United Irish) party, quences of which can only be disas
trous
for the Czechoslovakian people who had proved once more, in the midst of the sufferings of the second World War, their alloch- ment to the cause of liberty,
Holiday Flight For HK Children
THE TEXT
The full text of the joint de- elaration reads: "The Governments of the United States, France dnd Great Britain, have attentively followed the course of the events which have just taken place in
place Czechoslovakia, and which jeopardy the very axistence of the defended it on legal and moral Braathens, the Norwegian principles of liberty to which All
It was understood that Mr Mar- shall reiterated the statement United States policy made by Senator Warren Austin this week
Hew
and
By ♫ .. today Aring had ceased. Meanwhile,
51 victims of the Ben Sunday Yehudi Street bombing on were buried secretly in the North Jerusalem cemetery.
The Jewish Agency announced that
two-day opening a it was "public inquiry into the bombing and promised a verdict tomorrow,
Preparations were wader way in Jerusalem to transfer a large group of British policemen and civilians to England United Press.
FLARES LIGHT UP SKY Jerusalem. Feb. 26.-Red Rares lit Jerusalem tonight as the sky over British troops sought out Jewish and Arab gun positions south of the Old.: City.
Heavy exchanges of rife arici
the lruto
Cx-
grounds.
in
He is understood to have repented airline, has arranged a special democratic nations are attached.
means of R "They note that by that the United States, has only "summer holiday" flight for
and deliberately 30,000 troops actually available 35 to 40 British school children crisis artificially
instigated, the use of certain methods now for any immediate movement. who wish to join their parents already tested in other places has
Reports were current here today
of n dispute between the State and in Longkong, for the summer. Army Departments on the possibi- Hty of supplying troops.--Reuter.
Chaplin Sued By
August 3, the plane will make the dictatorship of a single parly
"They
Bank Worker Hongkong about September 15. of liberty."
tastes.
hul cannot
condemn
had
pernitted the suspension of the tree
of Parliamentary Exercise Leaving London
UT about
establishment of stitutions and the
trip in as shori a time as possible
under
the cloak of a government and should reach Hongkong uppror national union. ximately four days after departure. The Skymaster, DC-4 will put down
A development the consequences at the airline's usual stops of Ains which can only be disastrous for the terdam.
Rome. Lydda, Bombay, Czeclinslovak people, who Calcutta und Bangkok, making over proved once more, in the midst of night stops at Lydia, Bombay and the sufferings of the second World Under Thu arrepted American automatic fire could be heard.
Calcutta. The return trip will leave War, their attachment to the cause plan the Commision will start hold-; The Palestine Government, in an said the statement today, Russia was absent as usual. along ing elections in the South and work official
The State Department issued the Northwardi. If Russin continues to Jewish Agency's "premature accusa-
Everything is being done to make
statement without any separate boycott the Commission and refuses tions" linking-British-forces-with-Parts, Feb. 20-M. Henri Verdous, the flight confortable and pleasant American comment. permission for Goitry
Sunday's Ben Yehuda Street, the Paris citizen who is bringing an for the children, Wallem and Co.. Northern zone, balloting will have plosion were "entirely unfounded" Action agalost the distributors of Hongkong agents for Braathens, sold
NEW TECHNIQUE, It was the first major vote taken to be halled at the 38th parallel, A A Government spokesman, referr- Charles Chaplin's wife-murderer
Two or three specially yesterday. in the Little Assembly, created in National Assembly then will be set | Ing
tomorrow's opening of un film "Monsieur seting to
Verdoux," opened picked stewardesses will be abourd It was pointed out, however, that the suggestion of Secretary of State up with representatives elected from cuirs conducted by the Jewish his case today by saving that he had not the meals will be planned with this "Big Three" statement const- George Marshall.
the Southern zone occupying two Attency into the explosion, said the 4x points in common with his name- eye to the children's needs and tuted a unique development in post- thirds of the seats and the other only authority competent to hold an rake of the slim.
war diplomacy and the most forceful The United States is "Tenre sitting” The proposal adopted said it was one-third of the seats, which would enquiry was the Palestine Govern- They were: his surname, ht
condemnation yet of Soviet action in on Britain's dispute with Gunterala ; incumbent upon a UN Commission go to the Northern
zone, will be inent.
Christian name, his employment in Parents will be consulted as to the Eastern and Central Europe. over British Honduras, just as she is on Korea to carry out the elections
The
Government's investigation
bank, the fact that he was majjed. Į date must-suitable for their children's Itherto. such protests have been on the question of the Falklands De-leading to establishing of a Korean
Into the affair was not being helped that he was a father of a boy of the departure and the exact date will be
by Britain expressed individually The Commission had pendencies, but diplomatic authorities | government.
Canada and Australia opposed the by the lack of co-operation shown and that he was is specialist in thin-set in accordance with the con and the United States, though oflen here are convinced that the issues asked for instructions in view of American plan on the ground that by the Agency, the spokesman added. clat questions,
venience of the majority. It is bein almost identical terms. will be raised at the inter-American Russia's refusal to have anything to the Little Assembly had no legal Haganah Tadio tonight claimed I have never known 50 imany lieved, however, that this date will Conference at
do with the
Previously, France, too, has Bogola, starting on
UN Commission or to authority to make such a recom- that a Haganah striking force had marked coincidences," bis
lawyers not be later than August 1, although
normally
with Britain joined allow its members into the Northern mendations. March 30.
wiped out 16 Syrian Arabs in a raldantel.
It may be a few days earlier. These
the United States in diplomats believed that zone of Koren,
on the Arab village of Beit Bajan, M. Verdoux is claiming 5,000.000
in condemning the Guatemala has reopened the old sore Koren
Lester B. Pearson, Canadian de- near Juffa. was livided at the 38tr
franes from the United Artists Dis-
Specially reduced roundtrip fares various coups in South-East. mainly because the Bugota meeting parallel for occupation
lestate, indicated his country might| The village was said to be a base tributors and Cinemas.
In Paris, the circumstances sur- been arranged for the trip, purposes in imminent.-Router.
the Korean after the defeat of Japan. Russia withdraw from
Com-fur Arab attacks on Jewish convoys.
which will carry school children and rounding the Czechoslovnic crisis was mission should that body attempt to-Reuter.
students up to 24 years of age.
said by the Paris independent Con- earry out the recommendation.
Rervative newspaper, Le Monde, TRYGVE LIE'S STATEMENT
to- Wallein and Co. sald yesterday day to "resemble those of Munich. Australia also is a member of the i Lake Success, Feb. 20.-11 the
I that although most of the seats had The paper declared: "Czecho- Commission. The others on the nine Palestine situation is not settled,
been booked, there were slovakia's fate today, as 10 years nation body are China, El Salvador, ["it wil have a bad effect on the
(Continued on Page 4) India, France, the Philippines, Syria United Nations, especially if chaos and the Soviet Ukraine. However, resulted." Dr Trygve Lic, Secretary the Ukraine never has taken a seat, General of the United Nations, told In keeping with the Soviet oppo- correspondents here today,
It will
reduce the prestige of the the
EDITORIAL
Unwelcome Procrastination
THE apparently
Buthoritative forecast that the Japanese peace conference will be delayed until next year gives no cause for feelings of satisfaction. Procras tination In this matter appears to rexide with the United States whose officials quite frankly de- clare clafe that Mr George Marshall and his colleagues have ether ths to worry about the in- ference being that a peace settle ment in the Orient is relatively unimportant. Continued delay can only help to complicate further an already complicated! problem and engender the suspi clons of 'Ching. Australia and the Philippines that the United States" has ulterior molives behind her postponement of a
peace conter-
ence. Already feelings have been created that the MacArthur dicla- torship, while worthy of belog credited with energeile relsabilita- tion and reform measures, server principally American interests to the disadvantage of the rest of the Allies. The MacArthur ail- ministration has assumed a szeros- anet exclusiveness which, while
though.
in, the
first the of occupation, is in- clined now to be tedious. The future of Japan cannot Indefinite- ly be left in the
hands of one man; or would one
Imaging
that he wishes for such a burden longer than is possibly necessary.
Mr Marshall Is credited
destring
conference
to postpone the
Sovjet attitude veto. that
her
Union will abandon
on the question of 1910 Experience to date makes forlorn hope, more parti- cularly when everything Dow tends to show a hardening of the Regative Russian attitude to any maves or proposals emanating from the United States, and Britalu-the German and Korean questions are examples. I can be conceded at the European problem is serious and of ́prime Importance, but it is difficult in find any justifiable basis for the contention that because of Europe, It is impossible to consider the Japanese peace settlement, Russia, of course, is entitled to a volce in. the peace conference, but only if she is prepared to meet majority wishes with respect to procedure. Her In
Intercals in the future peace and prosperity of the Pacific are Important, but not more so than those of China, the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, Aus- tralla, New Zealand, France and Britain. To lanore the Interests of those countries simply becauso Russia and the Alles eaunot xce сус во сус ов the question of procedure, or because European peace problems, have still to he resolved, is not going to make, any easter the work of the Japanese peace conferen & when it is finally called. The longer the Japan's future holved, the more intricate and controversial deliberations
with peace
tre
the eventual
likely to be.
In the hope that the
Issue
LE
of
open.
sition.
Nations and lower
have
Ile asserted that his reputation, peace and well-being had suffered, He had been chased by journalists, harried by photographers and had completely lost his former calm.
Customers at the bank where he already
called him "Blue-still a few vacancies. was employed
beard."
During an adjournment Ju the courtroom, press photographers fred off magnesium flares.
Judgment was postponed unlit
An unofficial list of the countries United Abstaining included Afghanistan, people's confidence in it, he added, March 18.-Reuter. Egypt, Colombia, Denmark, Iraq. Asked to what extent the Security
Arabia, Council recognised the General As- Venezuela emily's recommendations on peace,
Norway, Panama, Saudi Sweden, Syrin Associated Press.
Dnd
Britain's Coal Exports
cont this
The coal production in Britain han been maintained at an average of over 4,100,000 tons weekly since the Saturday overtime working
was Introduced last November.
the Assistant Secretary General, Dr Arkady Sobolev, said: "The Securi- ty Council is an independent organ and free to accept or reject the General Assembly's, Cons."
recommenda-
Philippines Air Disaster
ix
of Manila, Feb, 26.Three persons on board a Philippine Air M. Ivan Kerno, Assistant Scure-Force C-47 plone were killed when tary for Legal Affairs, said: "The crashed after taking off at the Security Council is responsible for Lipa airbase, southern Luzon, 011 peace and security from whatever Tuesday morning.
not and
Imam Of Yemen Succession Threatens Civil War
Cairo, Feb. 26 Emir Seif Ef Islam Ahmed, the eldest son of the late Imam Yahya Hamid Du Din, of The Yemen, who yesterday proclaimed himself Imam, has appealed to King Ibn Saud to intervene in the dispute over the succession, "before it is too late, to avoid plunging the country into a civil war," reports from Aden published in the Egyptian press said today.
The succession is disputed by imorrow
as earlier reported-for
course peace is threatened. If de- Two others were seriously in Imam Abdullah El Wazir, who made Hodeida, the principal Yemenite Red
China Asks For A Stabilisation Fund
ruler on February 10. Sca port Abdullah E Wazir is reported to An entirely new account of the have threatened that unless Emir senssination of the former. Imam Ahmed, whose father, three brothers of Yemen, asserting that he was and the Yemen Premier were sald shot after burying Royal treasure to have been assassinated earlier in the desert sands, was published this month, and his followers turn the Arabic newspaper, Al Misri, rendered from their mountainre here today."
cides that any Assembly résolution is: jured white the sixth excuped with | himself London, Feb. 20,--Britele intends threat to pence, it hus power to re-minor bruises about his body.
The co-pilot, Captain Benjamin to export up to 10 million tons of commond a reversal of that decision."
year, thanks to an un-
But neither Dr Lie nor his nesiste Ecampo, 32, was among those expectedly high production and low nats were prepared to clarity the de- killed. while the pilot: Lieutenant
which have Valles, was one of the two hutt consumption at home, the Minister cute legal questions
The other victims were enlisted of Fuel, Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, told theven raised by the United States House of Commons today".
Government: (1) Has the General
men-Reuter. Assembly a right to enforce its de-
fuge in the south and declared their Earlier reports had said that thpt cision?; (2) as the United Nations
allegiance to him, they would be Imam and his three sons had bee legal right to set up three separate
"annihilated".
strangled. The 85-year-old Yahya Governments in Palestine?: (3) What
The Arab League In Calro do- Hamid-Du-Dla drove
out to the will happen if the Security Counci
elded to appeal to both Emir Ahmed desert and burled treasure, thought finths that the root cause of the dis-
Washington, Feb. 20-Chine has and Abdullah El Wazir to avold a to be £10,000,000 worth of gold, in order in Palestine is the Assembly's
asked the United States for cur- clash and stop the mobilisation of empty paraffin tins. Stocks are about double those of partition decision?--Reuter, last winter when all exports were
rency stabilisation loan on top of their forces until the League's mia- temporarily halted during the fuel
ARABS' THREAT
the $570 million she is due to get sion, headed by Abdul Rahman Az- crisis emergency.
Washington, Feb. 26-Confirnia- for machinery and essential imports,zam Pasha, Secretary General of the be diled so that the hiding place tion that Arab
Leamic countries Mr George Marshall, the Secretary League, arrived in The Yemen to should remain secret. Mr. Gaitskell explained later that were warning the United States of State, rald Joday.
try to arrange an amicable settle- On his way back he was attack- by allocating 15 million to 10 million that her all concessions in the In evidence given to Congress last ment.
there were according to Al Misri.. tons of conl this year for exports and Middle East would be cancelled if week, Mr Marshall said it would he
bullet holes in his bunkers, Britain was
for the United Azzam Pasha is now expected to cor and 50 la his body. The body contributing she continues to press for the par- a waste of effort between £30,000,000 and £40,000,-fition of Palestine was made by States to attempt to stabilise China's sail from Port Said on board the of the Imam's Prime Minister Was 000 more to the credit side of her an Arab Once spokesman in economy nt the present time, Egyptian constguard cruiser Farouk found in a valley "badly multinted," balance of payments.-Reuter.
Runter.
Washington today.
He then ordered all the slaves who had taken part in the expedition to
were
El Awal on Saturday--and not to- Al Misri added-Reuter.