THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1948.
CATEGORICAL REJECTION OF
PEACE PROPOSALS
Israel Critical Of Bernadotte Plan
London, July 5.-While Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations Mediator, today proposed to Jews and Arabs an extension of the truce, set to expire on Friday, Israel's reply to his peace proposals was understood in Israel political circles tonight to amount to "categorical rejection."
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The Jewish reply, it was understood, contained no Israeli counter-proposals but expressed readiness continue negotiations.
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The draft was being submitted | tie added, however, that Britain tonight to the State Council for had in no way intervened at any Anal approval before being handed stage in the discussions. to the Count late tonight or to- Is Pittsburgh,
inorrow.
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United States. Britain's Palestine policy was meanwhile condemned today by Leaders and Democrat Zionist Senator Claude Pepper, of Florida, the the Sist should be ot
anniversary of Zionist Organisation Convention of America.
The proposals which evoked the Averest criticism among Jews were that Jerusalemu should go to the Aral and that there supervision of immigration.
The Count, who did not name a aw deadline for the proposed truce, also urged:
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While the Convention passed resalution proposing an anti-British from Amman, of Jerusalem boycott, a report -Denihtarisation and of the Huifa port, refineries and Transjordan capital, reveals that an American, travelling to Tel-Aviv to terminni
with the United 2-Guards from France, Belgium take up duties
three States Mission to Israel, was arrest- and the United States-the Countries on the truce Commissioned by the Trausjordan police when he arrived in Amman today by air for the demilitarised places.
these pro- from Cairo. The Count propored peals at Rhodes before leaving for Tel-Aviv, Israel's capital, to receive the Jewish reply to his peace plan for the Holy Land.
PEACE IN BALANCE With peace in Palestine hanging by'n shoe-string. an Israeli cm- ollegeci that the maique tonight Egyptian forces in the south of the Holy Land had violated the Palestine truce during the last few days.
The American, Mr Ronald George to no vina Trimpe, said he had travel through Transjordan but un- derstood everything was in order,
Transjordan police ure keeping him in custody while investigating the matter-Reuter.
July
FUTURE OF JERUSALEM
5.-Politienl ob- Rhodes. servers said today that Aralis and Jews were reported to have accepted Folke The communique said that the principle mediator Count
Bernadotte's
demili- proposal for Isolated Jewish settlement of Narc
It was re- Darum was shelled on Friday night. arisation of Jerusalem.
ported that
sides indicated Forty shells fell inside the settlement por
willingness for actual acceptance but a definite agreement depended which Bernadotte upon the details" must still work out.
area.
Suping at the village from a new position continued in the last few elays, the communique added.
bath
Both the Arabs and Jews, in the A high Arab source. meanwhile,
opinion of observers here, realise ald today that. the Arabs will that further lighting in Jerusalem fuse new proposals for an extension will result in not only widespread of the truce.
the Holy City but also harm in The Arabs will resume their would prove costly to both sides, as ruggle until their legal rights are the Jews hold most of the new city recognised-Aral sovereignty over with the Arabs surrounding them and cutting off their route to Tel- Palestine," he said.
state, Aviv.-United Press.
"We don't want a Jewish nor the partition plan. The Ambs'
truce.
original acceptance of the YUGOSLAV
proved their goodwill in favour of world peace, but now they will not vichild until they win their legal rights."
A British Forelan Office spokesman tait today that Britain hoped both parties would continue discussions
Pretty Chic Uniform
of the uniforms being Preity Sue Young models one' manufactured in Kansas City, Mo., by a sporting goods concern for members of the United States women's Olympic team. Uniforms will be worn at the Olympiad in England this summer.-AP Picture,
Australia Searches For Immigrants
-a population.
London, July 5"Wanted Apply Australia. Applicants should, if possible, provide their own transport."
lem.
There, in 13 words, is Australia's immigration prob-
Some experts say Australia could support 80,000,000 people today. She has only 7,500,000.
When Premier J. B. Chifley talks fewer than 50,000 can get shipping to British government leaders on | evěry year. economic matters this week he is Lord Benverbrook's Empire- expected to press for British ald in ning the population gap. He is reliably reported to have a plan for transfer to the Dominions, including Australia, of one-third of Britain's 5D million population.
"But we do not look only to Bri-
minded Evening Standard urged editorially today that the British rovernment should speed conversion of merchant shipping for emigrant purposes,
make up
their
Plan To Fly Consumer Goods Into Germany
CONSOLIDATING NEW MARK
Berlin, July 5.-Plans are being made to fly .consumer goods into the Western sectors of Berlin as soon as sufficient stocks of food have been de- livered by air, Western Allied spokesmen said here capital.
At least one month's supply of food will be in the city by July 15, and transport planes can then be used to bring consumer goods and take out goods manufactured in the Western sectors of the German today.
new
The move was planned to con- solidate the position of the Deutsche Mark introduced into the Western sectors."
Mr Jo Fisher Freoman, United States Deputy Finance Adviser, and Mr Bernard Cook, British Director of Internal Finance, announced the plan at a press conference here.
the described
Deutsche They Mark, which will in future be used to pay only 25 percent of wages in the Western sectors, as "in effect n the hard money on bonus of BOOd norinal wage.
"The Western Mark is in effect a foreign currency In Berlin-it is the currency of the Western Zones of Germany from which Berlin is com- pletely isolated."
The nancial experts did not ex-
FULL STORY OF DARING
ROBBERY
Gold Snatched From Airport
Paris, July 5-A plane on the field was about to leave
the sleek.
plain how employers in the Wes-o the guards at the gate at tern sectors would be able to pay Orly airfield let their workers 25 per cent of their limousine slide by. The well- Marks if they dressed occupants were ob.
wares in Western were engaged in business such as
the to
catch
the foodstuff business, in which they viously passengers in a hurry the plane whose were legally bound to accept Eastern Zone mark. Such problems, engines were beginning to rev they sald; would be tackled when up. they arose.
A dark haired attractive woman with them was like many who de part from this
day.
aerodrome
every
The automobile rolled onto the
NO POLICY CHANGE The experts emphasised that there had been no change of Allied policy since the first currency reform law was issued in Berlin 10 days ago.
Local Mayors of the three Wes- tern sectors of Berlin conferred to-berodrome until it was out of sight of the gute guards. Then it clr- and day with the British, French
Customs building until 款 was hidden also from the building housing other airport guards.
American Deputy Commandants on cled the the new currency regulation Issued during the weekend.
The Mayors were understood to have spoken of Western Berlin's dissatisinction at the regulation,
forces all which in effect
cm-
of
At that moment there slid into operation the second part of a daring plan for one of the greatest cash robberies in history, as silekly or-
tain for the immigrants we need." minds." sald the paper, "that they ployees to accept 75 percent ganised as the notorious Rubel Ice
an Australia House official said in London. *Wo want immigrants from Europe and the U.S." EUROPEAN DPS
AMMO DUMP placed persons from Europe on con- Radio Australia. reported that Aus- Berlin, and that economic sabotage shattered.
of
They should
their wages In Soviet Zone marka wish to encourage family emigration."
The Executive of the Socialist Company holdup in New York in Nobody wishes to see only the young
the 1930's when more than $400,000 men and women leaving Britain, Unity Party (SED) today, mean. leaving their dependants behind." while Issued statement declar- was stolen.
Ing that a "Black Guard" had been
A window of the low building was "We are taking up to 12,000 dis- A shortwave broadcast from
set up in the American Sector of
The brunette sauntered diflon that the International Refugee tralian Federal Government officials was being organised in Eastern nearby, puffing a cigarette and ac- cording to some reports apparently Organisation provides the shipping.consider that inass Immigration Germany from the West. They are to be employed on heavier people and Industries from the "The Guard provides the frame- cting as a lookout.
as timber felling | United Kingdom will be necessary if type work such
work for a new fanatle terror or- of war construction of hydro-electric Australla is to take a greater share genisation which In case
ot British commonwealth Trieste July 6.—A Yugo- | projects.
defence brought about by the reactionaries
The robbery was done so quickly US ex- "We are also accepting
would provide cheap cannon fod- and assume her responsibility us a munitions dump servicemen. army On the slav
About 2,000 GIs took strategie zone lu the Pacific.
der," the statement said, according that it must have been rehearsed as near Isola, small industrial
and
the Soviet-sponsored provide for an
their discharge in Australia
news agency.-Reuter, Another 2,000 -re- absorption of the Arab areas of town in the Yugoslav zone of settled there. Palestine in a greater Transjordan Trieste free territory, was turned to Australia after being de- and a form of union between Trans-
blown up. on Sunday night, mobilised in America, jordan and the State of Israel.
within the framework of the negotia-BLOWN UP
tions conducted by the Mediator.
NO INTERVENTION Je refused to comment proposals, which
Military Revolt In Peru
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In a recent sabotage act, unknown persons set fire to stacks of wheat
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We, too, may give
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German many times as the Rubel Ice Con- by the South China Morning NEW. INDUSTRIES........
pany job. The men slipped from the FLIGHTS CUT DOWN automobile and from the building Post and Hong Kong Telegraph. "Defence authorities pointed out There is a
Frankfurt, July
took three chests weighted with 400 5.---Bad flying list of 10,000 ex-Cls in San that the Australian government had
weather with heavy rain and low lbs of gold worth more than $300,000. Staff Photographers äro on view,*
noise there was, was Whatever according to eyewitness re Francisco and New York."
in mind the establishment of new
ceiling, cut a number of fights to shielded by the roaring motors of
in the ports received here today.
Other European
an immigrants will heavy industries and the expansion
besieged Berlin today from yester- the broadcast
the plane preparing to take off for day's
Morning Post Building. Although no official communique come from the ranks of ex-service- of existing ones,"
Air Force hend Algiers. As the plane started down the runway, the automobile swung slated, observers believed this men, resistance Aghters and under added. "Particular attention would the United States is to 800 tons, to be another act of sabotage
quarters reported. by ground workers of France, Belgium, be paid to aircraft production and
the control point and From 4 They have shipbuilding.
to yesterday p.m.
quickly Cominform agents against Marshal Holland and Norway.
out of the gates as though it had ""To carry out these plans it 4 p.m.
the Alr today
Force discharged its passengers. been offered assisted passages like
not only for few 101 flights from Wiesbaden and
The gold had come from the the Americans. But there again the would be necessary
for Industry to Rhineman air bases.
American Smelting and Redning trouble is shipping, for there is little skilled personnel
migrate to Australia, but for com. Weather conditions are expected available between Europe and Aus-
York and was In New Company plete sections of industry to be to deteriorate further tonight.
the destined for Australian govern-
Bank of Indo- Travellers from the Yugoslav zone tralia and the
Air Force's headquarters sald Chino in Salgon. also reported that the Yugoslav ment stipulates that Britons take transferred from the United King- police raided homes of Italian Com- precedence
Europeans
tonight from June 28 to in dom."
Tonight's newspapers speculated The Canberra correspondent of yesterday "Operation Vittals" car- munists in Capodistria, capital of the shipping queue. the zone,
anol breaker who Aus- ried 3,373 tons of cargo in 1,115 the robbery might be the work of confiscated
SHIPPING SHORTAGE and
works
with accomplices known as It is want of shipping that has held tralian government officials believe flights by the Air Force and trans- Lima, July 5.—The Peruvian! which the Communists had been
previously allowed to keep.
"Big Pierre" and "Rene, the Ameri- up emigration of 600 Dutch farmers, that defence requirements will force port command,
this
095,000 flew planes
miles
in." The police wondered why the Government
In Trieste, the Executive Council has suspended
The Netherlands Emigration Founda- Britain to agree to
which is equivalent to 28 times local
thieves Communist Party
had passed up an even big- tion, with headquarters at The emigration. constitutional guarantees be- of the
Who is to pay? Australia, Britain round the world. of revolt by Army adopted by a majority of two votes Hugue, has been able to send only
resolution
Contributing to the all-out effort ger haul. accepting
so far, "uncon- 100 farmers
or the emigrants? That is one of the the Austraila
For plainly near the gold, was n big questions to be decided if and are more than 3,500 ground
currency worth ditionally" the Cominform declalon House official reported.
addition 10 100 Carton of dollar and inviting the Yugoslav Com-
Approximately 250,000 Britons when the gigantle Australian plan air crew men In
of the ground forces and German $80,000,000.-Unlled Press. munists to adopt the Moscow line, have registered at Australia House is accepted. Associated Press,
personnel who are assisting in for emigration to Australia, But
loading and unloading of planes.
COAL ON WAY Meanwhile, the Bavarian Ministry of Economics In Munich, revealed today that 600 tons of coal to be power
Belgrade, July 5-At least 50,000 will be
to persons were today belleved home- Fuerstenfeldbruck alr less after two days of floods in the of and airline officials arrived here to base on Saturday by a Bavarian coal Moravia and Mishova valleys
Serbia, southern day to join British experts investi- firm and unloaded Immediately.
The coal was ordered by General United Nations Children's Emer- gating the cause of Britain's worst
re- Lucius D. Clay, American Military gency Fund officials said the towns air disaster, which yesterday sulted in the loss of 39 lives. Governor of Berlin, Ministry officials of Nish and Leskovac in Moravia had suffered most. Parts of Nish A public enquiry is expected
to said. the collision
According In
to the Ministry, the were under six feet of water, and apen shortly into
in the old Serbian, mid-aid of the four-engined York coat will be put into sacks and loaded many houses aircraft of the Royal Air Force into aircraft and flown to Berlla Turkish and gypsy quarters Had Bouth China Morning Post Limiter Transport Command and the Swe-where they will be dropped over collapsed. Loss of life, however, is at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City a
the airfield from a low level
said to be slight.-Reuter.
Victoria In the Colony of Hongkong dish Airline's DC-8 Skymaster. in
German officials anticipate tho The two planes crashed blinding rainstorm while circling coal transport operation to start' to- near Northolt Airport, near London morrow. United Press.
FOOD FOR BERLIN
garrisons at Puno and Juliaca in Southern Peru.
The Government also banned mass meetings in Lima and other eilles nl warned leaders of the rebellion lo lay down arms or face punitive urlion by the rest of the Army.
An offcial communique of the Ministry of the Interior said the was led by Major Alfonso revoll Lion of Juliaen Garrison, who re- quested the support of other com manders in the South.
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he communique sald that Rarrisons, except those at Puno and Julipca, "expressed loyalty to the legally-established Government" of President Jose Luis Bustamente.
ABSOLUTE CALM
"With the exception of Puno and Juliaca,, there i absolute calm: in the country." sald the communique. the The Government has taken
necessary steps to order
where it has been
announce-
The revolt followed an ment by President Bustamente June 28
28 that he proposed to rule the country by decree because the Right Wing minority in Congress was obstructing legislation.
President's
announcement
The brought strong opposition, including that of his own. Vice-President, Jose Galvez, who said the move would create "grave danger for the country at home and for its prestige abroad.""
Senor Galvez, who is also Senate President and head of the National Democratic Front which helped elect Eenor Bustamente In June 1945, - muntd
Congress ahould meet scheduled on July 28.
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Last year, 21 tightists went on "atrike" against the majority, there- by nullifying legislation, and they Indicated they would take similar nction at the regular Bession scheduled for this montll-United Press
United Press.
Dog Saves Trapped Owner
Date E. Wilson, 28, (left) Bremerton, Wash., navy yard worker, is sent to hospital, recovering from. Sve days and nights in an abandoned well." Wilson was rescued from the well when Penney, a small cocker spaniel, attracted the attention of n friend who was inquiring into: Wilson's absence—AP
Picture.
AIR
DISASTER
TO BE PROBED
used in Berlin's electrored
London, July 5-A
plants, seven-man Munich'a commission of Swedish Government}
a
A steady
There were no survivors. stream of people visited the mor Hamburg, July 5.-The first Sun- tuary at Uxbridge, Middlesex, today derland flying boat left the island to Identify friends or relatives base of-Finkenwerder near Ham-
among the charred bodies.-Reuterburg this afternoon, carrying nearly
Jean Hersholt
For London
10,000 lbs of food to besieged Berlin. All day barges crossed from the landing base with canned food, such as Argentine meat. A company paratroopers is in charge of opera- loading bridge was tlon. A new erected during the morning to facl- Iltate work.
London, July 3.The film actor,
Only one flying boat will leave Jean Hersholt, is scheduled to arrive Hamburg for Berlin today. Other In London on Tuesday by air from Sunderlands will probably be put Copenhagen en route to America. on the run tomorrow.
Mr Hersholt, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Beleness, will present "Oscars" to. five. 1947 Academy Award win- ners at a dinner of the British film producers association on Thursday night-United Press,
Wing Commander J. L. Crosbie, who is in charge of the squadron, sald that each Sunderland will make two trips daily. When the opera- tion gets into full swing, they will be, transporting 200,000 lbs of food dally-United Press.
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