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VOL. III NO. 137
Palestine Truce Violations
BOTH SIDES MAKE CHARGES
London, June 11---Charges and counter-charges of truce violation marked the first day of the four weeks United Nations' truce in Palestine. By tonight the Arabs had reported four specific Jewish infractions of the cease-fire during which Count Folke Bernadotte will try to negotiate peace. The U.N. mediator would be told, the Arabs said. The Jews claimed the Arabs were continuing to attack in some sectors.
All reporta-Jews, Arab and neutral-indicated that the truce, coming after six · months and twelve days of bloody conflict was an uneasy one. Orders for the cease- firo came from both sides at 6 am. (GMT), the hour fixed by Count Bernadotte. the day brought these charges:-
Average Rainfall Exceeded
The Royal Observatory this morning reported that the 'Colony's average rainfall from January 1 until midnight last night had been passed.
Arabs:
The Trans-Jordan Legion officially
violated reported that Jews
the Lease-tire 7 a. m. (GMT) by n burnt
of small arms are in the Musrara quarter of Jerusalem in which a Legion soldier was killed.
Απ authoritative Trans-Jordan source In Amman said the Jews
attacks were continuing
against East Syrian forces
Mishmar of selUement Hayarden, Jewish
In North-eastern Palestine.
But
lof about 2,000 Egyptian roops which had been cut off from a main
Egyptian column on the const for a week.
From sunset to dawn Jerusalem wan shaken by continual explosions an Trans-Jordán Legløn guns batter- ed Jewish districts and Zionist artil- lery replied.
the
In Tel-Aviv, a communique cald
Ierncil
Air Force bombed the Syrian capital of Damascus in the Anal night hours before cease-fire. More than three tons of high ex- plosives were dropped in 15 minutes. the Jews said.-Associated Press.
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1948.
Plane Dives MIGHTY DON
Into Water ·
Halifax, Nova Scolla, June 11. -Lleut. Nigel Douglas Flaber, aged 27, son of Admiral Sir Douglas Blacke Fisher, Britain's fourth sea lord, was killed when his Royal Navy twin engined Sea Hornet orashed in the harbour In Halifax Nova Scotia today.
Fashor who arrived on June 1 with the Royal Navy's 806 squadron on the new Canadian carrier Magnificent was on routine training exercise when the plane took a steep dive into the water.
With other members of his unit considered to be the six "hottest" pilots of the Royal preparing to
Navy tio туда participate in
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show com-
memoraling Air Forco Day in Halifax on Bunday.--Associated Fress.
Magnetic Mine Sinks
Steamer
150 Lives 'Feared Lost.
11.-A
SCORES 28TH
Dine
At tho
For
P.G..
Reservations
TEST CENTURY
Australia 128 Ahead,
6 Wkts In Hand
Trent Bridge, Nottingham, June 11---Australia ended the second days' play of the first Test match against England in a strong position. They had scored 293 runs for four wickets in reply to Eng- land's first innings' total of 165.
Don Bradman, the Australian captain, was 130 not out and Hassett 41 not out when stumps were drawn. This is Bradman's 28th Test century and his fifth three-figure innings of the tour.
Jim Laker, the Surrey bowler, who rescued England in the first innings, against distinguished him. self today by taking the first three Australian wickets. When Miller foll to Laker, the latter's analysis was 12.4 overs, five maidens, 22 runs, three wickets.
The fourth wicket that fell With Barnett concentrating on during the day went to Norman bowling on and outside Bradman's Yardley, who, in his first over, ac- leg stump to a packed leg field, and counted for Brown.
Young still trying mainly to keep down runs, the scoring became very slow before in. The .crowd, now about 25,000, barracked mildly as Bradman and Hassett played a suc-, cession of maiden overs.
Australia went to tea leading by
An official Trans-Jordan source said the Jews again violated the cease-nre by an attack at 11 am. MISSION ARRIVES (GMT) on the town of Lydda and Halfa June 11-Seven American d Khyor arca with Naval and Marine officers and onG the Wadi
Then came a long and sometimes machine guns and light weapons. Swedish army officer, arrived in In all
said the Arabs, Jewish Palestine today
uninteresting stand by Bradman cases,
to supervise the Copenhagen, June Are was not returned.
and Hasset who added 108 runs, United Nations cense-fire between magnetic mine is believed to Actually, England restricted Syria sent a telegram to Count the Arabs and the Jews. The fast have sent the Danish steamer, tourists to 370 runs in six hours.
the protesting Bernadotte
a group of military observers to arrive Kjobenhavn (1,688 tons) to the
Bradman, showing his best form, Jewish plane flew over Damascus at Haifa was headed by Col. Erik de bottom of tho sea of Jutland to- / completed his 28th century in Test 50 runs with four wickets down. Between midnight and B o'clock some hours after the cease-fire and Lavaleof of the Swedish army.
of rain was chased away. this morning 2.70 jaches
He said the rest of the Belgian, day with the feared loss of 150 (Damascus had recorded, and the tropical were
and American lives, according to an official of depression which first made its pre- during the night by the Israeli Air officers will come into Palestine on the Danish Admiralty. ·
The total rainfall for the year is now 28.66 inches against an average of 28.54.
that
J
been bombed French,
sence felt in Hongkong late Wed- Force). nesday night, has yielded
JEWISH ALLEGATIONS the Colony a total of 11% Inches of rain.
STORMY NIGHT Hongkong experienced
of traffic.
Jows:
· A Tel-Aviv· communique spoke of | a heavy Arab attack at 10.30, a.m.
road In
Swedish
both Jewish and Arab sides as
cir- cumstances permit, Associated Press.
starmy (GMT) on the Sedjera sefilement IS BEVIN
con-
tinuing to attack their sectors but TO RETIRE?
plosions were heard,
The rea-
Degaussing apparatus-usd Ex- tensively during the war to render ships immuno from this type mine-was
to not fitted Kjobenhavn.
Danish naval experts have begun
the
land.
cricket and his 15th against Eng- WONDERFUL CATCH Young, left arm slow, and Laker, off break, shared England's attack scoreboard after lunch when the Pread 104 runs for one wicket. Al- though no English player was nearer than 15 yards from the bat, Barnes Laker's offside feld with a square
Immediate enquiries to establish pierced off drive and
on
This was his fifth
Bradman continued to bat com. fidently and completed his century in three and a half hours, out of 183 runs scored. century of the tour.
The Test scoreboard: England: First Innings
Australia: First Innings:
Darnes, o Evans, b Laker. Morris, b Laker Bradman, not out
| Miller, e Edrich, b Laker
Brown lhw, b Yardley
Hasselt, not out
full Bedser
Extras
night. Although the average wind on the Afulch-Tibering force was only 17 knols, one short, I lower Galllec. The communique sharp and isolated gust registered jaiso charged the Arabs with
how the mine came to be within an cut in the same over. Runs came 56 knots.
established sea lane, causing Den- easily until at 121 when wonder- Comparable to this was an occa-did not name them.
mark's worst peacetime sen disaster.ful catch by the wicket-keeper, slon in 1935 when a single
Eust
Correspondents in Jerusalem re- London, June 11-Foreign
Tonight, 225 of those. 05 registered
theported that random shooting while
board Evans, dismissed Barnes, knots
con Secretary Ernest Bevin's office the Kjobenhavn were known to have
Barnes slashed at a rising ball average was 15.
tinued there for six minutes after
Just short of a length. Everyone The heavy rain dislodged a fair-the deadline, then quiet descended reported on Tuesday that Mr been rescued.
expected to see the ball flashing to sized boulder on to Harlech Road, ou, the battle
Bevin will not seek re-election lines.
DIVERS AT WORK
the boundary, but Evans was right although the ro
road is not
The all Jewish city of Tel-Aviv from his present district in the wholly closed.
small boulder be-had an air raid alert 80 Another
minutes 1950 elections.
Divers were
struggling beneath over on the off side, and his right come dislodged alongside the Peak after the cease-fire hour.
the turbulent waters of the Kaite-hand almost made contact with the the ball which bat as he parried track, but there has been no disson was not disclosed and no ex- Mr Devin's future political plans gate to release bodies trapped in the few from his glove into the air. Edrich location of
have not been definitely settled,wreckage and planes were still flying "A" "Royal"
yal Observatory official said Both sides had "atlucked strongly Foreign Office kesman ex-ever the scene in search of survivorn, Swinging and diving
"Evans · caught the ball- one Barneli this
but that the morning
present in the last hours before the cease-plained,
added.. that Bevin The Kjobenhavn, on its way from hand inches from the turt squally weath would tend to de- Arc.
"doubtless" will run in some other Copenhagen to the North
Danish
The umpire,, Cooks, at the bow- Laker that crease during the day, but
15 the South, Egyptian tanks district.
port of Aalborg, struck the mine further rainfall must be expected. broke through to relleve a spearhead which has recently been current in intel of Lemfjord, leading to the
The new move revived speculation miles off the const as it neared theer's end consulled Umpire Chester Yardley
when. England appealed and Ches- Compton ter confirmed the catch. some London papers that the aging port,
Bradman ran out ofler Barnes EDITORIAL
Foreign Secretary is about to retire Another Danish stedmship, the and apparently told him that Miller from-active polities.
Fregna, took off 220 passengers, ne- was to go in next instead of Hassett Mr Bevin, one time strong man of cording to Captain Kill, master of 1.9 was expected. Whether prem British trade unions, will be 65 the Kjobenhavn. who told of his arranged or not, the unexpected years old at the next clection tenta- "terrible experience" when death alteration in the batung order was
struck his ship in the darkness. tively set for May, 1950.
not
next a success. In Loker's
to o Office spokepon The British destroyer Onslaught over, Miller groped forward vehem Foreign vehemently denied these rumours and
submarine the
Truncheon, perfect length ball and edged it to asserting,
no question visiting North Denmark, stood by slip, where Edrich took the catch, whatever" of Bevin retiring or even to help if needed. being, made a peer.
ΙΠ
Public Opinion In H.K.
is not often we are given such comprehensive _refreshingly
first Impressions of Hongkong so public as candidly expressed in
Charles those uttered by Mr Loseby to the Y'men's Club on Thursday. Mr Laseby said what
a lot of people have thought for
a long time, but for some reason
of
or other have`kept these thoughis to themselves. The crilical sec- tion of Mr Loseby's impressions centred around the absence pubilo opinion, Government's failure to encourage open discus- sions and criticism of its policies
and and legislation, inarticulation of the
the
Unofficial
members of Legislative Council. The pointa were well Laken, although Laseby will
Mir
probably that due course come to And in public opinion is not so
much
atifled as it is wilfully aquiescent, and therefore dumb. Only once within recent years has pubillo opinion really expressed itself, and then it was a purely secilonal display of infuriatlon and frus tration, The occasion was the resentment felt by the husbands over the evacuation of their wives In 1940. They became really annoyed and, many will recall. held several pullo meetings which Governmthi was well and truly castigated, The demonstra- achieve anything tions did not tangible, but they did serve
characteristic of the Illustrate a Hongkong mentality that
At
to
MD-
some
some
which
called pubilo opinion here only becomes vociferous when Imposition is enforced; or suspected injustice done Intimately affects the private life of the Individual But should ofclat policy or acilon cut across the communal life public reaction
Invariably bored.
apathy, Government,
Inic does nothing to stimulato public interest in its own affairs,
or
healthy criticism of itself; and the same accusation can be levelled against some of our organisations
+I
In
of
whose activities profess to be in the interests of the public. For example there are a number reputable debating societies Hongkong whose standards oratory and argument are high enough to stienet publie laterest. Seldom, though, do any of them scize on local toples of the day for general discussion; they pre- fer to debate the faluous and Immaterial,
28 Buch undesirabliliy of sex equality, the deplorable level of
modern manners, and such like. Govern- mont's policies and its legislation which daily affect the lives of the community are left severely alone, and Government
the
"Anda
itself with only one serious crillo the Freas. That public opinion is virtually non-existent in long- kong can primarily be ascribed to the lack of the community and clvlo spirit But for this
001
deficiency Government must take a full measure of blame. It has never been seriously encouraged; Instead Government has persis- fenity fostered the docile acceptance of what is known as benevolent bureaucracy, where the ellizen accepts what la offered him
in the way of pubila services without
asking
nia by questions. Morcover the Hong- keag born have been kept in tight Hillo position in the administrative and social life of the Colony, and from time to Ume their Interests have even been made subservient to
those who have come to Hongkong to get what they
of IL can out Against such a background. It is
wander the 110
.Colony communally
and unconscious
to that oynically indiferent which does not directly affect the individual life. But perhaps Mr Loseby's pertinent criticism will prompt, whatever progres- sively-minded people there are In Hongkong to start a movement designed to promato vigorous and arilculate pubile
It opinion. would be the best thing could happen to this Colony.
that
· "Liere
Lord Derby To.
of
over.
TRAGIC PICTURE
in
the
Rest Of The Sport
On-Page 14
The rest of yesterday's Inter- national sports results-county cricket, Davis Cup and tourna- ment tennin, baseball, athletics and motor racing-will be found on the back page.
mac
Both the second and third wickets
12.4 and
Rumours of Bevin's retirement fed
A tragic pleture of sudden death also upon the recent return to the striking the Kjobenhavn whlic,many Cabinet of Mr Hugh Dalton, long a jof its passengers were asleep was rival of Bevin for high Labour pierced together by survivory lying Party posts.
in hospitals, hotels and hastily im-. In fact, when the Prime Minister, provized arst aid centres
Clement Attlee was forming his peaceful old city of Aalborg. government three years ago, most of Some told of hearing the screams London political pundits believed
trapped behind cabin Dalton was slated for the Foreign doars, jammed by the force of the
people Offfee. Instead in a reported last explosion. Other passengers were minute switch, he was given the killed by planks flung from the fell at 121, and at this point Laker's Treasury.-Association Press,
cargo hatches as the ship heeled superb bowling was represented by the remarkable figures, on a per- Captain Kill said: "The explosion feet pitch his analysis being occurred aft and the ship settled overs, five maldens, 22 runs In the shallow water almost per- three wickets.
This did not deter Yardley from pendicular."
An Aalborg merchant, who was bringing on Bedser and Edrich with the exhausted survivors, the new ball straight away in order told of men and women in various that Brown, the new batsmen, could London, June 11-Lord Derby, 30, one of Britain's richest men, is to stages of undress jumping into the be fully tested with speed and swing.
ell-covered waters. Children were Bradman began to store marry Lady Isabel Milles Lade, 27,
and freely
and it was a far different separated from, their mothers it was announced today.
Lord Derby succeeded to the title husbands from their wives as they Bradman from the hesitant, batsmen strived to keep aflont in the rough who began his innings before lunch. after his grandfather's death in
in He went on to his 50 out of 81. "He February.
string of Inmous Stanley bourd as people realised the
Tie said some panie broke out on a hundred minutes by driving a half. racehorses, the
sizzled shulp volicy from Bedser, which House
stables at Newmarket, and a number of estates including Knows-
vus sinking, but Captain Kill de over the turf for his second four. ley Hall near Liverpool which has clored: "There was no panic among Then ho turned Young to leg and put 30,000 acres, 500 employees and the passengers. They behaved with Australia in front.
admirable calm."-Reuter. private post office-Associated Press.
Marry
bun
a
2,600 Guests At
Palace
of
London, June 11.-Two thousand six hundred guests filled the State Apartments on the first floor Buckingham Palace at the
third presentation party of this year, given by the King and Queen.
The Royal party, which Included Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, moved informally among the guests. In the garden, tea and Ice cream were served at a long marquee facing the Palace buildings,
while a Guards band played. Reuter.
among
sco.
ANOTHER DYKE
BREAKS
[
moro
no
Bradman's footwork was a joy to see. He frequently walked into his off drive against Laker and cleverly placed his shots out of the feldmen's reach
batsmen began to look though they were in for a long stay when Yardley decided to take his; Grat turn with the buil, and he broke
the partnership in his first Portinnd, June 11-The flooding over. Yardley's fourth ball of good Columbia River broke through a length went more quickly off the other dyke on Portland's outskirt pitch than Brown, attempting today and raced over a rich lowland back stroke, anticipated, and Brown area extending 10 miles to the cast.
: was leg before, Australia's fourth Portland Airport, four golf and wicket fell at 185, when they stood country clubs, n inkeside resort and only 20 runs ahead of England. homes for several thousand persans In trying sweep Young to leg were inundated. All the residents both fansett and Bradman mis- ears were expressed that some might ball in the air near the untenanted were evacuated a few days ago, but timed their strokes and sent the
short Ane leg position.
have returned.-Reuter,
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Tokyo, June 11-Political ob- servers today predicted the early collapse of the Cabinet, formed on March 9 by the Democrat 62 lender, Mr Hitoshi Ashida,
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