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The
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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1948.
JEWS CLINGING DESPERATELY
TETTUCUMATAN
More Rice For
Singapore
Singapore. May 21,—The rice ration for Slugapore and Malaya will be increased in the near future, the paper Singapore Free Press reported."
The Increase would be the re- sult of increased shipments from Slam and Burma, as well as the satisfactory stock position here. Although the International Emergency Food Committee's food allocations for the second half of the year have not yet been officially pubilahed. press reporta here have salil think 425,000 tons for the whole year has been approved for Malaya.
The baslo ration is now two and two-thirds pounds a week for each person-Reuter.
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AMERICA'S
NEGRO SOLDIERS
Resent Segregation
Frankfurt, May 21-Seven American negro editors, who re- cently toured United States Army installations in Germany and Austrin, have asked for an immediate end to segregation in Army unita.
TO RUINED FORTRESS
Old City Turned Into Rubble By Arab Guns
NEW RED CROSS APPEAL
Inside the old city of Jerusalem, May 21.—A desperate band of Jews clung to a rubbled fortross 300 yards squaro in the old city of Jerusalem tonight after four days of the Arab Logion's offorts to crush or dislodge them.
Arab shells screamed over the religious city in all directions as Legion gunners raked at Jewish lookouts and gunposts on high points supporting the small grim band of Israelites penned against the 400-year-old walls.
Five times Arab dynamite squads set off charges in Tiferot Yisrael syn- agogus, tallest building in the Jewish quarter of the old city, which the Arabs thought they had captured yesterday. But Jews clung to the domed roof and underground
chambers and crawled out for iping shots today.
The Ave huge charges blow down the north wall of the old synagogue. Arab artillerymen for the second day turned shellfire on American- funnced Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew University on Mount Scopus and demanded that the 400 Jewish Aghters there surrender or die. The Mount overlooks the old city
from the north.
Arabs sald Jewish machine- ginners and mortar crews in en- trenchments at the hospital and university opened up on Arabs In the Sheikh Jarrah and Wadt el Joz quarters at the base of the Mount this morning.
for
zones In
zones
Mount Zion, also were shelled.' lives" to appeal once ΓΙΟΓΟ Montefore has been one of the Jews' | agreement on Accurity strong points for many months. Palestine..
From the Church and Hall within PROTECTION FOR ZONES a few yards of Zion Gate of the old The Committee's message pointed city, the Jews again on Thursday out that all previous night launched a vain attack to free had broken down and that Oghting negotiations the Jewish garrison besieged in the was now going on in Jerusalem. It Jewish quarter of the old city. asked the respective governments Associated Press.
take all necessary measures that; nt least the security JEWISH PLANES ATTACK
bo Tel-Aviv, May 22-The Jarnet respected, which the international Committee's delegation is making Air Force today took to the skler
every effort to establish within the over Jericho for the Art time as
town self as it had first planned. The editors declared in a special
the battle for the Holy
city In-
"The
same report made at the request of Mr
creased in intensity.
applies to security Zonca which Kenneth Royalt, the Secretary of the
delegation may There was almost a
which the complote Army Department, that "any men-
blackout of news from Jerusalem attempt to set up in other towns of
Palestine, 'sure short of a completely democratic
A Legion fold ofeer in the old but fragmentary reports from army is and always will be inada-city said that the American Consul. Haganah said that Jewish planes is to receive under supervision Arab "The object of these security zones quate, wasteful and dangerous.” Mr Wells Stabler, telephoned him
went to aid the ground forces, and attempt
non-combatants. suffering a While praising the general Army this aftemoon in on
from thus to save the largest heavy pour.ding policy found
Intercession. during their three
Glubb Pasha's Arab leglommaires, number of week's tour. the editors said they "I replied that many Arabs had Haganah said that Jewish planes sociated Press. felt concessions granted to negro been shot by Jews from these posi-attacked
strongholds at soldiers and officers were now tions at the hospital and university, Shanfat village northwest of the "absolete as the working pattern of neither of which are permitted by an efficient military machine."
the International Red Cross to fly the Red Cross flag," the officer said
SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS The editors suggested that addi- tional negro officers be assigned to command negró troops if the Army is to expect an improvement in morate, discipline and efficiency.
SURRENDER TERMS
at
the fighters to become prisoners of war.
2-A!! non-combatants including doctors, teachers and nurses to be
Red Cross."
"I told the American Consul that either the Jews murrender or we will have to destroy them all. Our They reported that approximately terms are: 10,000 acero troops within the 1-All European Command have only 152 - negro ofeern.
Because few
officers or negro soldiers are given - assignments -- in such units as the Zone Constabulary, Army post offices, hospitals and Military Government oflees, there is little, if any, incentive for negroes of background and education to seek the Army as a career, they said.
White Anding that in most cases the Arry maintained mixed educa- tional groups and social clubs, the editors said that they had found a colour line drawn at soldiers' clubs in Munich and Nuremberg-Reuter,
EDITORIAL
Terion
battered city.
Haganah sald that "all of our planes returned to their base."
Meanwhile the plight of the holy city was becoming hourly more desperate. Jerusalem has been without food convoys for a full month. Ils water supply is run- ning cut. Electric power reserves are felling.
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France
Expected
To Give Recognition To New Vietnam Govt.
Paris, May 21-France is likely to recognise the new Indo-Chinese Central Government of General Nguyen Van Xuan, but no statement will be made until official notification of its formation is received, usually well-informed quarters here stated today.
Government circles welcomed the election of the Francophile general as President as an important step towards the final settlement of France's future constitutional relationship with, Indo-China.
speech
Coun. Annam
PALESTINE THE
CAUSE
New York, May 21.-The Palestine problem is beginning to atrain British and American relations. It has not reached a point of formal protests from either nation, but it may if Britain
continues to aid the Arab nations attacking the Jews in the Holy Land. :
Privately, these charges woro already being made;
Firstly by the United States that Britain is viewing the Palestine, Oghting from a longrange stand- polat of ultimate British interest in the oil rich Middle East and dis- regarding the fact that the obvious Arab aggression is killing the Jews;
Secondly by Britain that United States Administration taking a short term view motive by political expediency due to the large Jewish population in America..
SHARPLY DEFINED
the la
not
As of today the split is sharply defined. The United States has re- cognised Israel. Britain has and her spokesman said she prob- ably will not for some time. In the Security Council the United States is preseing for an Immediate cease. fire demand which would leave an open threat of economic sanctions and milliary action.
Britain wants to ask for a truce to provide for mediation but to rule aut any action to enforce peace: The United States is
considering the
Hrting
of its arms embargo-to soll weapons to Israel Britain la con- tinuing to subsidiae and
tho equip Arab armies and the will go right on doing.so until the United Nations rules that the Arabs are guilty of aggression United Nations action" with Britain is strongly opposing. It adds to a potential diplomatic plosion between the two most Im- portant western powers. Russia for a change is lined up with the United States, but in this case that makes little difference.
TRUMAN'S ADVANTAGE
CX-
In a showdown between Britain and the United States, President Truman would seem to have an ad- vantage. American money is pay ing for the European recovery pro- gramme upon which Britain places much hope for her
her economio re- Dr Ho Chi Minh, and making which Britain, was an
habilitation. The
real hope of the
European
Republican
Most neutral observers feared
Oklahoma City, May 21.- that unless something drastic is done
As far as recognition is concert-be found while the in the next 48 hours the holy city Two fifth grade boys aged 11 ed, the attitude taken by the President,
French Government and the High his Vietminh Party were excluded. handed over to the International will be wrecked by bloody house to and 12 will tell a judge on
house fighting,
Commissioner for Indo-China, M. Haganah said that Israel's planes Saturday how they skipped Emile Bollaert, since M. Bollaert's the "dirty war," Combat asked: "Is Saying the solution could not end
Union, artisan, an effective defence, attacked Arab military objectives in school,
acroplane,
bloc of September 9 last, Legion howitzers · also baltered the Gaza district in south Palestine, flew it 150 miles, landed safely been that the formation of a Cen- of France?"-Reuter.
has it really, therefore, in the interests againal Communist nations in Ens- Jewish positions on Mount Zion in The planes left large fires burning.
term Europe les in military aid the vicinity of the Dormition Church,
in a pasture, stole a horse and tral
including all thin
from and co-operation with Meanwhile four Egyptian plones
"three
the and reputed scene of the Virgin Mary's gave Tel-Aviv its first breakfast air finally landed in gaol.
United States. death and Crusader Hall, where the raid today and in the evening drove
The 11-year-old boy told officers ter to be settled by the Indo- an internal mat-
The Arab capture of Jerusalem, last supper was believed to have the city's 240,000 inhabitants,
that he learned to fly by reading Chinese
where the Jews are still fighting been held.
SOON TO MARRY themselves. nir raid shelters for the second time comic books. His father, a well- New talks between M. Bollaert
desperately in what seems to be a Jewish concentrations in Monte- today.
known attorney, sald the youth and General Xuan are reported.
hopeless cause, may change matters. Gore, just outside the walls to the
Athens, May "rend everything he gets his hands
21. Ex-King The raids highlighted the day on
The Egyptian west and across
and Trans-Jordan The obstacles to
Michael of Rumania and Princess troops, which constitute the great tho⚫ gorge from which the Jewish State was one on concerning aviation."
a final settle-Anne of Bourbon-Parma will Both youths took an Ercoupe planement of, Franco-Indochinese relo- married in Athens shortly, it was have not shown any disposition; to be bulk of Arab forces in Palestine, week old,
from the airport here and flew it to overcome in the course of the ex-
tions will, however, still have to be disclosed here a place eight miles northwest of pected Bollaert-Xuan talks.
tonight. make important attacks on the main Reuter. Cheyenne, Oklahoma, where
(Continued on Page 147 Cairo, May 21-Egyptian Army patrols have reached
got lost and decided that we had Bethlehem,
OBSTACLES less than five miles south of Jerusa better try to find directions
home."
Although France has virtually lem, where Arab Legionnaires and
Thinking that they were only a withdrawn her objections Jews are engaged in a fight to the few miles from
home the. boys unity of the "three kys," there aro Anish for the Holy City, It was an borrowed" a horse and rode into other points in the claims nounced tonight.
United Press. Cheyenne where they were arrested. Indo-Chinese Nationalists on which the French Metropolitan Govern- ment may find it more dimcult to
Ill-Judged Criticism
OUTSIDE the arrow confines
on
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The
A
of the narrow-minded General Assembly of the Church of Scot- land and the Lord's Day Obser- vance Society, there will be title sympathy for, or appreciation of, the telegrams which these two bodies sent to the Prime Minister expressing horror that Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh should attend a race meeting 1151
night club
Sunday. telegrams ama
smack of impertinence in more ways that etic. London Court circles are reported to have observed, the Princess and the Duke were on a vialt to Paris and the itinerary prepared for them, was the sort of itinerary which would have been prepared for other visitors equally as dis- tinguished as Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. The programme was no sinister plot to To fure the Princess into the paths of wickedness, but to Frenchmen, high and
low,
-représented a typical and proper way of spend- ing Bunday. The churchmen's telegrams thundered about the "regrettable example" which the Princess was setting the "great mass of young people in Britain" by watching races and going out to dine in publie on a Sunday, but this is sheer poppycock. Tho example, which the Princess has Always set the young people of her country has been a life irreproachable and impeccablo behaviour. The admiration and affection which the Princess on- Joys throughout the nation and the Commonwealth has been won
no
as a result of her personal charm and a happy knack of making the people feel she is one of them. These are the endearing qualities which have set an example to the youth of Britain and there need be no fear that because, during an official visit to another coun- try the Princess should indulge in aciviles on * Sunday, for which she would have na opportunity of indulging in at home, that she is in any way compromising the high example she has set during ber life to date. The General Assembly and the Lord's Day Observance Society have ignored completely the fact that the Princess and her husband went to Parla wen
officially repre- senting the King and his people: that they not only fulfilled offelal duties in France but that in at- tending the various functions ar-
for ratized
them-races
and theatre, as well as visiting the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the royal couple were doing mucli more than their crities in Scot land in bringing the peoples France and Britain together closer ties of friendship understanding. That is the most of example which
the
PATROLS AT BETHLEHEM
It was believed the Egyptians from the South already have effective | contact with the Bethlehem area and with King Abdullah's TranaJordan Arab Legion-United Press.
Later, an unclear report which the Army received said the "Jewish sur- render to the Arabs was, still in the balance."
"we
backc
FORGERY BY AN
EX-PARSON
REFUSE TO SURRENDER Halfa, May 21.-The British Army tonight said it hnd received "delayed reports" from Jerusalem that the
Sydney. May 21-John Smith Jews had rejected an Arab Legion Garden, Scottish-born former trade offer on May 18 "to accept surren-union leader, was today sentenced der"
three years hard labour on charges of forgery arising from the sale of a timber concession in New Guinea Garden, a former Baptist minister and a Labour Member of the House The report said that an "unspeel of Representatives, was stated, to fed number of the Arab Legion have have forged a letter purporting to now arrived."--Associated Press. come from Mr Edward
Ward. Minister of Transport and External RED CROSS APPEAL Territories, for whom he had been Genova, May 21. The Interna-elected manager. Reuter. tional Red Cross committee appealed today to the Arab governments and
of
to the provisional government Israel to agree to the establishment
of
13
of
and
security zones in Jerusalem and
other parts of Palestine,
AND WAS SHE
: SURPRISED!
mont give way.
to the
of the
Uneficial reports received in Paris say, for example, that General Xuan wants his Government to become a dominion which would have an im- portant treaty of olliance with France.
He also apparently wants foreign consular agents in Indo-China accre dited both to his Government and to the French High Commissioner..
the French viewpoint all along, has been that Indo-China must remain an integral part of the French Union and that Indo-Chinese foreign polley and national defence must remain the exclusive respon sibility of the Metropolitan Gov- emment
But
Bao Dai, the ex-Emperor, having given his blessing to the new Cen- tral Government, is believed In Paris to be waiting for further developments before committing himselt to returning to the throne. The Communist newspaper, L'Humanite, today described Gen- eral Xuan a "new quialing." ** ENORMOUS SPLASH General Xuan, the paper In order to save as, many lives as man woman, staying with her Welsh had made an enormous splash by possible.
husband nt - farra near Llan-throwing into the pond The
appeal was addressed to the facheeth, Merioneth, opened the door "France plays in Vietnam the role governments of Egypt, Iraq: the of the bedroom and came face to of the United States in Greece," Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Trans-face with a horse wedged on the It said the Government formed Jordan and Israel.
yesterday represented "an assembly
The proposed security-zones would {.. Princess
recelve Arab and Jowish-non-com-
set to the youth of Britain and one for which no apology is ro- quired. For our part we trust that the advisers to their royal highnesses will continue to exer- cise the wise discretion they have already shown and will not allow Themselves to be influenced by Il-judred. And Impudently- phrased telegrams from bodies which represent only a fraction of opinion in Britain.
balants under Red Cross supervision London, May 11-A young Ger-
Landinst
sald,
a boulder,
It declared that the International Her ery brought a farmer, who of notables chosen for their spirit Red Cross Committee
was "pain-called the fire brigade.
hair
of collaboration with the colonial an administration and with the business The world.”
fully impressed by the gravity of It took eight firemen events in Palestine and, moved hour to back the horzę out. solely by the anxiety to protect the animal had wandered from a farm greatest number possible of human half a mile away-Reuter..
The independent Leftwing com- Ibat said' that no final solution could
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