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VOL. III NO.. 96.
MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1948.
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Jerusalem Mortar Shells Rain Down KUALA LUMPUR
To Be
Open City ?
Apr. 25.
to
Lake Success, Emergency steps designed make Jerusalem virtually An open city took top priority in the United Nations today.
Many United Nations dele- gates have almost abandoned hope
of obtaining an effective in the Hot
Holy Land but
seek a way to spare Jeruss- lem's holy places,
Alexandre Parodi, of France, put before the Assembly Politi- cal Committee a resolution tended to place Jerusalem un. der United Nations
der
promptly.
F11-
caro
Paradis resolution will be debated in the political com- milies tomorrow.
Parodi
he
Indicated that hopes the United Nations will be able to agree on Palestinian guards Jerusalem to protect the city if it becomes a United Nalious responsibility, - À810- ciated Press.
On Port Of Jaffa
Of Jaffa HK Message Of
HEAVY JEWISH ASSAULT
Jerusalem, Apr. 25.-Unleashing the biggest mortar barrage yet seen in the Arab-Jewish fighting, Jewish forces today launched an all out attack on the all-Arab "orange port" of Jaffa, five days after they had seized control of Haifa, Palestine's biggest seaport.
Reports from the adjoining Jewish city of Tel Aviv said tonight that 3,000 men of the Irgun Zvai Leumi opened the attack, but in Jerusalem it was said forces of Haganah, the Jewish defence army, went into action after blasting the port with mortars.
The Irgun district commander made this announcement in Tel Aviv: "Our soldiers began a counter-offensive against Jaffa at dawn this morning. The at-
tack continues."
Russia Ends Boycott Of Trusteeship Council
Lake Success, Apr. 25.-Soviet Russia ended its boycott of the United Nations Trusteeship Coun- cil today, apparently to have a full vòice in Council debate on Palestine.
Train Dives
Into Gorge
cars
Two People Killed Adamsville, Alabama, Apr. 25.--The fast Miami to Chicago passenger train, "Sunchaser”, today hurtled from the rails on a horse-shoe curve and the locomotive and three plummeted into a 100-foot deep gorge.
Two persons were killed
and about 10 injured.
cars of the 13-car Seven other train derailed but stayed upright on the single track roadbed.
The last three cars, stuck to the track.
Engineer Jaures Booth died in the gush of scalding steam at the con- trols
In a formal letter to the United Nations, Russla designated Semen K. Tsarapkin, Charge d'Affaires of the Soviet Embassy In Washington. us the Soviet delegate.
Teorapkin was Russla's delegate on the Special Palestine Committee which worked out the UN scheme to partition the Holy Land last fall and took a leading part in vocating partition.
Russia acted as emergency stepa, which would make Jerusalem vir- tually an open city, took top priority in the UN.
CHANGED ATTITUDE Russia has refused to take a seant on the Trusteeship Council since it was not correctly established, was formed, contending the Council
no
Oftelul reports reaching Jerusalem: So far, they have received said mortar shells began to rain official Instructions from the Securi- down on Jafta-the ancient port of ty Couneli: "All we know is what we Jerusalem-about 7 a.m, local time. have read in the newspapers
'Two Arabs were killed and 64 heard on the radio," one
and others were wounded, It was added. sold-Reuter.
of them Preliminary casualty figures sald two Jews were also known to have. been killed.
An Arab Bource in Jerusalem ad- mitted that the Jews had trated
AIRPORT SAID OCCUPIED
Felicitation
of
The following message has been sent to Their Majesties on the occasion of Their Majostles' Silver Wedding Anniversary: "On the occasion Your Majesties' Silver Wed- ding the Government and people of Hongkong wish to join with all Your Majesties' subjects the world over in a common expression of loyalty and affection. On their behalf
I tender, with humble and loyal devation,
on
heartfelt this
congratulations occasion and best wishes for the future"-Signed Alexander Grantham, Gov-
ernor.
Jerusalem, Apr. 25.-The Lydda REDS SIEGE
the
pene international airport-one of the "No Mon's Land" biggest separating Jafta from Tel-Aviv and Europe and the East...was occupied OF LOCHUAN
air junctions between
were reported to have occupied the tonight by the Arab Legion, ac- Manshich quarter, including the cording to Jewish, reports. police station.
was
SMASHED
RIOTS
Ceylonese Soldiers Put Under Guard
Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 25. About 800 men of the Ceylonese Royal Pioneer Corps, stationed here, were today confined to camp under armed Gurkha guards after serious rioting in the town last night.
Several Europeans were among those assaulted and three shops were wrecked by about 150 Cey- lonese who rioted in three localities.
Only two nights before, the Cey- louese were involved in another riot during which they smashed up two shops about a mile, from the scene of last night's disturbances, injuring several people.-Reuter.
An official statement sald n court representations to the Government of enquiry was being convened Im- of Ceylon on the situation, melintely.
The first warning of trouble come when
n truckload of Ceyloneso troops were stopped by military police along the main road to Ipoh.
An officer mald a truck had been commandeered By the Ceylonese. It Was reported back to camp and serious trouble started soon after- words.
RESTAURANT WRECKED
U.S. Arms For Western Europe
A party broke out of camp and wrecked a Chinese restaurant near the camp gate in a few minutes. The rioters then lined the roads and began attacking passing cars, European motorist with his wife and child being among the first injured. Washington, Apr. 25.-In- A Chineso and a Ceylonese doctor formed Congressional Bources WLIN
of the today said President Truman rioters, who used sticks, stones and would send Congress a plan for
the
worst
victima
sien, 80 miles west of Esinging. THIS RAIN
A British Overseas Airways off- ARABS FLEE
cial said tonight the last Dakota to -In Tel-Aviv, Jews on
leave Lydda will take all British the sea- front with feld Arabs
glasses watched staff out tomorrow. He added that Shanghai, Apr. 26. The bottles. boats.
ficeing from Jaffa in small one company of British troops was Nationalists have smashed the As this was going on,
stil in occupation of the airport and month-long siege of Lochuan, rios started in a neighbouring ares,
another limited shipments of American arms to the five-nation "Wes- From Cairo, it was reported that dented the Jewish reports. ad-
60 miles south of Yenan, and King Farouk of Egypt visited Emir
He alleged that Jewish airlines' have broken the furious Commoney taken from the till and two
half o mile away, a liquor shop tern Union" within the next Abdullah, the Iraqi Regent, who
being attacked, staff had sabotaged communications.
smashed
up and three weeks. had arrived at the Zartaran Palace main international airlines,
Jewish reports said that all the munist attack on Yinghsien, 35 employees stabbed.
The plan already has been pro- here from Amman,
with miles south of Tatung, but a the capital of
sented informally to the Senato | Transjordan.j
the
on of the Egyptian Misr, new crisis developed in Well-
President (Senator Arthur Vanden had The Regent was expected to at-
operating
berz) by the Under-Secretary of tend tonight's meeting of the Arab and six seriously injured when an Three British soldiers were killed
State (Mr Robert Lovett) in two he would lay before King Farcuk derailed in the Ramich area after Yenan, former Red capital, played League Political Committee, where Army train, carrying stores,
Goyernment columns which lost
private conferences. week' evacuated recommendations
and abandoned for military aid for Palestine,
section
of the track had been a major role in breaking the Com- during reached
the removed. weekend talks in Aminan
munist ring around Lochuan, ac- In Baghdad, an Iraqi military cording, to pro-Government reports The atmosphere prevalling through-spokesman, declining out the discussions was
to confirm today. of gloom reports and pessimism caused by the Jewish Army units to Palestine, said today of movements of Iraqi successes in the Holy Land.
Jewish
that
the movements tonight that the attack on Jaffa was secret."Reuter.
in БОЦЕССЯ
Jerusalem sald forces" are, in any case, a military of military spear-headed by 600 Irgun members after an unconditional surrender to the Ambs in the port was delivered.
Palestine police sources
stated tonight
that Jaffa was "quiet but tensa,"
MARTIAL LAW
However, the Trusteeship Council is stated to bear a major role in the big power manoeuvres оп the Palestine situation. Observers here fell generally that the Russians were acting to insure a full voice in the Council deliberations on the future of Palestine.
As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, One woman passenger was killed, Russia had a seat on the Trusteeship of the injured being attended at Council under the UN charter. Birmingham, 16
Under mlles southeast
the partitions schem of the accident, doctors said
Tsarapicin that which
helped put about tix to eight were in serious through, the Trusteeship Council condition.
Was asked to assume charge Jerusalem, which would be international city.
The
The cause of the accident was not officially explained.-United Press.
MAIL TRAIN DERAILED
ok
an
United States uscd
(rusteeship plan
the for
Bombay, Apr. 25.-One personalem us a base for a tentative
was killed and three
EDITORIAL
law
1.
A.
STUDENTS' DEMANDS
as one
20
The Nationalists were now sald to be advancing on Chungpu, miles southwest of Lochuan, where the Communists were sak to be looting the city, setting fre on main buildings in preparation for a retreat.
Peiping describing the fighting of A United Press dispatch from Yinghsten said that
is only a drop in the Bucket!
SAVE MORE
and
more water
EVERY DAY
from
Patterned after wartime. Lend- Lease.
American milliary backing would provide for the fivo nations which last mouth signed a mutual defence and economic pact at Brussels.
The Executive Committee of this Western Union-comprising Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg-met for the first time in London yesterday.
To establish a committee
It 18 permanent immediately,
probably Including representatives. of the five General Sting.
Action of that type is being awaited in both Congressional and to assurances of American military administration circles-as-a-prelude- backing.
on the day
before
dad's colleges and schools declared Baghdad, Apr. 20-All of Bagh- an indefinite strike on Sunday until "the Government recruits all able war-planes attacked and silenced to the scenes of the riots and, after government Military and civilian-police rushed -bodied In Jerusalem, the British
Iraqts and sends the regular Red artillery units on the outskirts tense situations, arrested about 40 Army army to fight in Palestine." proclaimed martial law tonight in the Arab Sheikh Jarrab quarter
Simultaneously, a mass meeting on the Red reinforcements moving
of the city causing heavy enzualties of the rioting Ceylonese. of of the nation's Liberal party made from the east.
TRUMAN'S PLEDGE the city,
TROOPS ASSAULTED which was attacked by the the following demands:
The United States plan has not Jews carlier today.
British troops The Regular Army Lieutenant-General
the nearby been put in, final form, but the should The Headquarters G. H.
Malaya District Headquarters were return of the Secretary of State (Mr of Gen. occupy Palestine.
Fu Teo-yi's command in Peiping said MacMillan, General Officer Com- 2.
called out and as they neared the George Marshall) Arms for Palestine, must be that 7,000 Communists were killed
from when the Calcutta mail train, was tine. Russia has opposed trustee-manding, Palestino, imposed martial collected from the Iraqi tribes
Ceylonese
Bogota, derailed about 174 miles northwest ship for Palestine at every step-quarter was threatening the British opened up throughout Iraq,
begun throwing bricks Colombia may put new because the fighting
in 10 days of fighting through April and bottles at them.
pressure in the 3. Recruiting centres should be 24 of here early today.-Reuter.
behind it. The Lend-Lease Associated Press,
The oltuation in the camp was soon
plan stems from
"mado # pledge The dispatch also told of a clash brought under control, and armed Congress by Mr withdrawal route on the Jerusalem-
These moves Nablus road.
followed "British with the guerillas only 13
Truman treachery in surrendering Halta to cast of Peiping and Sanho, 40 miles threw
miles Gurkhas who came on the scene the Brussels pact was signed-March The Haganah forces who occupied the Zionists,"
cordon around it.
17. At that time, the chief executive п number of Arab positions in this wrote.
newspaper east of Pelping.
Today, everything seemed quiet. said. "I am sure the determination suburb last night have now been
The seriousness of the
The Ceylonese here. govern-
were calling of the free countries of Europe to It was authoritatively learned that ment driven out by British forces.
position in Welhalen According to Jewish sources, Ha-stopped three days ago. Supplies
the flow of patrol to Haifa
wasan emergency meeting of the Ceylon proiect themselves, will be matched was pointed out by a government
Federation of Malaya
(Continued on Pare ̊5) gonah killed 20 Arabs for the loss still continue to Tripoll.
nouncement that Nationalist rein- of two dead and 20 wounded.
forcements seeking to reach the bo- A Jewish source
The organ In
of the National De- Bieged Jerusalema mocratic party, expressing
cily from the cast and sald British guns blasted Haganah alarm 11 the Zionists' control
great west might not arrive in time as the positions tonight before they were Halfa, urged the immediate intera hold inside the city.
of Reds were reported to have secured occupied. Jewish causalles not known.
were vention of Iraq's Regular Army or
Last week the slege was broken "the people will force three Meanwhile, the
an action temporarily when the Reds suddenly Consuls-which the Government will not be withdrew in a move General named by the Security able to stop."
which Inter Council on Friday as the Palestine
proved to The newspaper of the Indepen-drawal to reform and redeploy the be strategical with- truce committee-the United States,dence party agreed that the use of besieging forces. Peiping reports French and Belgian Consuls-General the Iraqi Army was the only way to sald the Reds broke into the city -met informally In Jerusalem guarantee the safety today.
of Palestine after heavy guns smashed the wall Ambs-Associated Press.
on the north ski-United Fress.
Another Whitehall Threat
THE experimental abolition of
In
Ex-
the death Penalty In England. at first of vicarious Interest to the general pubile of Hongkong, threatens to become a major issue if Mr Chuler Ede, the Home Secretary, succeeds persuading
Govern. the British ment to extend the same periment to the coloufer, Hong- kong will resent any such In- trusion into its domestic affairs. The question is not so much whether it is right and proper for Hongkong and other colonics to abolish capital punishment, but whether they should be made to do so at the dictate of White- Itall. Hongkong has become wearlly accustomed to the do- mloating influence of the Colonial Office and Treasury, and only under protest have we accepted the financial co
control now being exercised
reminder that Hongkong became indebted to
# NE
the Imperial Government during the war. However, while it is Dossible to make out a some degree Justifying Whitehall Caloto control of sur public expendi ture. there is much
ch less Justifica- tion for instructions compelling us to amend, our criminal court code of procedure purely on the thenis that what is right for Britain is proper for the colonial empire. Mr Chuter Edle's argument im biles that the result of a free vote In the House of Commons on subject such as the abolition of the death penalty also represents the opinion of the people living in the colonies. This is absurd. There was never any suggestion by the original proposers of the
ed by
abolition of capital punishment that its application should extend beyond the British Isles, and the fact that the Labour Govern- ment itself was officially hostile to the motion makes Mr Chuter Ede's attitude I the more in- comprehensible. It unthinkable that on a subject of such far- reaching consequences, amend- ment
to Hongkong's criminal court care should be imposed decret. Under parilamentary procedure the limitation of capital punishment represents the will
of the people of England Inasmuch that it was accorded full debate and a free vote In the House of Commons, The very least, therefore, that the colonies should insist on is the opportunity of constitutional de- bates and votes In their respec- tive Legislative Councils which wi'! afford some guide to local public opinion. It la conceivable flui Hongkong
could plead several special' reasons why the remain death penalty should operative, or at least should possess a wider application than in Britain under the new Criminal Justice Bill. But in any event, Hongkong' is entitled to make lia view's heard and known before Whitehall permitted to Impose Any unilateral amendment to our criminal court penalties.. Tho abolition of capital punishment at Home is for an experimental perlod of five years. The wisext
L
course would seem to bo' to wait until the experiment has succeed- nd in a place of origin before Inslating that it be adopted by the colonies.
POLICE AND COMMUNISTS FIGHT IN
MILAN'S CATHEDRAL SQUARE
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Milan, Apr. 25.-Rifle This was the third anniversary of, to bumper, barrier across the street. swinging police, aided by Italy's Liberation from the Germans, Rifles and machineguns were aimed timely rain storm, today and the partisans were allowed to at the partisans, broke up Italy's post-election courtyard of Storzesco Castel. There, tered. Then someone.
celebrate with a meeting in the For the moment the Leftists fal- riot. Communists provoked and the underground fighters of the war firecracker and the partisans surged
shot, off guided the wild demonstration heard Luigi Longo, Italy's No 2 against the police lines, in Milan's famed · Cathedral Communist, declare:
Thudding clubs and Square.
"Today as then (in the uprising machinegun fire over their heads For an hour police in jeeps and against the Nazl),
wo rise as one streets. armoured cars fired into the air and single man-without authorisation down the main road to the Square. charged time ofter, time into the defence of liberty and to stage lines
of 25,000 partisan fighters who our commemoration for the fallen in halt them, and one column actually A second police barrier fälled to were being led by Communists. the war of liberation."
Panicky residents of the city
renched the Square. cheered as heavy police
With those words in their ears, reinforce the partisana 'left the courtyard and ments arrived. Tho Communists formed ranks for the half mile apparently fired at the police. A march to the Cathedral Square passerby was known to have been Their attempt to parado defled Injured and a National policeman government order issued was killed by a bullet which re- Communist outbreaks.
ssued to provent
At that moment a heavy thunder- portedly was not from polico guns. The police were ready for the things oft. Soon the only person in storm broke, and the raing cooled A streetcar cams under a burst of marchers. From aide streets roared the square machinegun fire, but its terrified jeeps, armoured cars and brengun plodding toward the cathedral.--As- was a solitary monk passengers; escaped, injury..si
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