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VOL. III NO. 162
MONDAY, JULY 12, 1948.
Israeli Troops Continue Big
Offensive
IMPORTANT JERUSALEM
BATTLE SHAPING
Jewish Shock Forces Prepare For Action
Cairo, July 11.-Israeli troops are advancing on Ramle, 10 miles southeast of Tel-Aviv, from captured Lydda airport in their biggest and most successful offensive of Palestine war, advices from Tel-Aviv said tonight.
Thousands of Arab civilians were reported to be fleeing from Lydda and Ramle toward Latrun on the main Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem highway. The Israeli troops are permitting them to filter through their lines but are confiscating vehicles, dispatches said.
new
Jerusalem dispatches and Egyptian front dispatches indicated that a big battle is shaping up in Jerusalem and that Jewish shock troops are preparing an attempt to storm into the Arab-hold old walled city area.
unTM
Picked Israel! troops blasted occupied buildings just outside the ancient six-foot thick wall to reach positions at Jaffa. A heavy mortar barrage bombarded Arab positions in the old elty.
Assad Dagher, spokesman for the Arab Arab League, said here that the
of the. Political Committee Lengue, before deciding to resume politi- war discovered all possible cal measures that might be taken
ότι
At the the same time Arab artil-against the Arab countries. Dagher tery opened a big bombardment of said that pressure is being put by Jewish-held suburbs of Jerusalem, the United States and Britain
troops Arab countries through their envoys Iraqi
and regular Arub shelled the main Tel-Aviv-laita in the respective capitals. coastal. highway at three separate
He said, "There is no pressure points from six miles east of Tel-stronger than death and we Arabs Aviv to 11-miles south of Halla.
Arab
are prepared to die rather than to yleld to the pressure being brought
A United Press dispatch from on us." Amman reported that the League would hold an
Regarding possible Arab counter important reprisals, he said. "We supply the meeting on Monday at Alel in the Americans with oil but the Ameri- mountains outside Beirut, Lebanon, cans supply the Arab countries with
some of the most
critical psticks and limousines,"
where decisions of the seven Arab coun-
tries have been reached.
that Trans- The dispatch sald Jordan delegates are expected
Ver to
It is up to the Arab governments. take final decision and himself revealed that King
hind
the nsked
Arab 10 Abdulloh
com- take no vigorous "part in discussions League whether its political
discuss concerning Count Folke Bernadotte's mitteo should not at least
truce." King Bernadotte's proposal 10 demill- appeal for a new Adullah conferred with Glubb Pasha, tarize Jerusalem.
Dagher said commanding the Arab Legion, the
because
the Committee re-
Amman dispatch said. It appeared plied that there is no need for dis- it has already possible from the Amman dispatch cussion
ON THE WAR FRONTS
that heated arguments might arise reached decisions.
the at the Alel
over
advisability or cing the truce.
Amman
dispatches
suggested that
have Individual
long
Arab
While the biggesi military activity Jerusalem. countries might vote by majority to entered at Lydda and
permanent Jewish and Arab communiques and accept the truce or a
dispatches reported fighting peace agreement and that if they press did, resignations might be expected throughout Palestine.
(Continued on Page 8) from some cabinets.
EDITORIAL
5
The Sterling Area
UESTIONS such as
"Is the Sterling Area necessary?” and "Would it not be better". If illa- were the Sterling Area solved?" are being asked with increasing frequency. Indeed,
of frequency
such the questions is leading many assume, on the principle
very
to
that
pay
there of reasons
has variety "Can
been a widespread shortage of the Sterling Arca last?".
dollars, a shortage from which the Sterling Area has suffered. In addition, Britain has been ex- pected to honour balances bullt up by members of the Sterling Area during the war and deposited in London, the creditors naturally wishing to use these balances to have goods for the
they the the since
WR5.
The needed supplying of these goods has placed a great strain, not only on Britain's productive resources but also on the Sterling Area's ex- the question now really is mination of the Sterling Arta would help to solve, Bettain's problem, and thereby speed up the process of
recovery There In the world
really
an
progresa perverse
there cannot be smoke without Aro, that the Sterling Arca
to world obstacle
Bome beculiarly British arrangement that the Empire insists on cling- to when its usefulness has Ing
outlived.
Krounds
already been
art
the
Bloc
genuine 110
There
for
change reserves,hether the ter-
is no reason to think that if the
do
On
Top, several large buildings, surrounded by rubble, are all that remain landing in the downtown area of Fukul, Japan, after a series of devastating earthquakes. Note building at top right in state of collapse. Above residents of Fuk
of Fukal build temporary structure amidst wreckage within bours after a disastrous earthquake and fre town. swept the Industrial Photo made By Charles Gorry, Photo- Associated Press Staff grapher who flew to the scene from Tokyo,
NEW C-IN-C
FOR BPF
Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Brind
Malayan Police Kill & Capture Insurgents
ACTION AT ABANDONED TIN MINE
Kuala Lumpur, July 11.-Malayan police, comb- ing an area just outside Kuala Lumpur today, shot and killed threo Chinese insurgents and arrested 15 other suspects, bringing the total bag in this area
police and military the last 24 hours of intensive sweep to four dead and 19 arrested.
Today's
action
wits
at
in
an, planter was killed, another is miss- abandoned tin mine on the outskirts ing and two Asians were killed in
area, where a large
r. house, surprising 15 others were presumably at breakfast.
KILLED IN CAVE
оп
who
two
Only The Choir
force of in- an ambush on Friday. surgents were reported massing
In the Rentau area in the South, Friday for an attack on Kuala Lum-
police and military are carrying out the pur.
"active operations" following such a conclusion. The Sterling Bloe came into existence after
and murder last night of a Tamil rubber A police leader mid police Britain went off the gold standard
Gurkhas investigating a alle were estate foreman, police said.
They said the foreman was shot in 1931, and became an effective.
fired on by an armed sentry, who Individual members of the Ster- prolectiva
for Bystem
the self- countries, notably members of
London, July 11-Vice-Admiral then took flight and fell under a hull dead by a party of Chinese who invaded his house during a heavy llur Area, particularly governing Dominions, were left
Sir E. J. Patrick Brind has been of police bullets. the Commonwealth. Up to 1939,
they
Commander-in-CWJet. appointed fend for themselves
Troops and, police then rushed to rainstorm.-Associated Press. to Sterling existence of the
beiter than they
British Pacific Fleet, in succession would fare any was dependent upon no that After
now. They would have
to Bir Denis W. Boyd. formal agreement.
not existed, i fewer dollars at their disposal date if it had
have
Vice-Admiral Brind figured in a been neotssary to and would probably would have
Hemanda
famous incident in Chinese waters. деп greater make mary create it. The exigencies of tho
A further search disclosed Britain's limited
in 1930, he went to Tsingtao to resources.
the wrongful arrest of more armed Chinese lying low in a war forced the sterling bloc, or
investigate existence of the Actually the
a British the Sterling Area to adopt more
merchant ship by the
cave nearby, When they refused to Sterling Area and the established
Но
tho took
cruiser Japanese. formal strangements Ban
habit of constant consultation on
come out, police shot both dead. In- Not merely did they hitherto
Birmingham among ☐ floct
Warwick, England, July 11.-The of side the houro polleo recovered four keep their currencies aligned,, common problems la an assurance that the methods now employed similar but they also adopted a
Japanese
heavy cruisers and air rifles and several hand grenades, domestle chaplain to the King and foreign exchange policy by con- offer a beller hope of
craft carriers and went aboard the two sacks of rice, & number of blan- former dean of the Royal Chapel selation
the choir needed overhauling in his tributing all their foreign ex
Japanese flagship to demand the kets and uniforms as well as a large today charged that everything but
collection of
new parish here, to a common
release of the merchant ship. change carnings
one ofleer Communist literature,
Polleo d como their
at Perak
reported a "murder
Rev W. H. Elliot who wan pool and pledging themselves to for-
The Japanese threatend to blow
on a draw on this pool only
known pointed to St Mary's Church was made up both Brilllah ships, but they attempt purposes connected with the war effort. As part and parcel of the
managed to get away and the story Chinese Communist," presumably by April, wrote in his parlah magazine of this enterprise spread along the members of their own ranks. Police that ho was shocked by the idle and same idea, they adopted a similar
Chinese coast, resulting in a British said he was shot through the head ungodly, gossip. -control to policy of exchange husband their foreign exchango
shipping boom. resources (ohloffy dollars and. for a Since the war, zola),
Than If the !
to over-
countries# separately
and by Intermittent conferences. mean- This must not be taken as mea log A solution is guaranteed. That requires not the damember- ment of the Sterling Ares but an increase in the productive powers of all those countries now depen- dent on American aid
but is still alive.
Police also announced
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PLOT TO SUCCEED STALIN
Said To Be Reason >For Tito's Excommunication. Londou, July 11.-Two London newspapers said to day that Marshal Tito was thrown out of the Cominforma because he wanted. Stalin's job as leader of tho Com. munist movement.
Both newspapers--the People and the Sunday Dispatch-claimed stories on "inside" information:
The newspaper, People, under a Vienna dateline, said that Marshal Tito had been "ploting" to become Stalin's successor.
About a year ago, the newspaper said, this information reached the Kremlin and was then that Stalin sent secret agents to Belgrade to spy on the Yugoslav dictator.
dis
FIRST ROUND. RESULT **People said that some of Stalin's spies died and others "Just appeared." "The newspaper cluded that Tito "won. round."
coo-
the first
1
The Sunday Dispatch's diplomatie correspondent said an account
of
the sensational Stalln-Tito rift was based on "Information from an un- Impeachable source."
Tho Cominform attack on the Marshal
Tito setup
Yugoslavia was the outcome of fear on the part that of Kremila of the 13 men
Marshal Tito might eventually Enatch leunist world
national
of
the inter
the Moscow," the Sunday Dispatch said.
Dispatch Sunday
salda Tho "Stalin, they argued, is in poor Berlin, July 11. The Amori-health and he may not live very can-licensed Dona news agency much longer. Marshal Tito is the
only possible rival for said today that it has been te national Communist leadership
alone has personailty tud ported without confirmation He that Marshal Vassily Sokolov-blacking in any way rivalling Stalin's. without sky, Soviet commander in Ger- All other national Communist lea-. many, has been relieved of his ders are colourless
popularity.
command.
The British licensed DPE agency said
report, and the
Wus broadcast
licensed radio
same
news
and
STALIN DISPLEASED
"When Stalln dies, they argued, It carried a similar what is there to prevent Marshal Information Tito becoming the Number 1 man by the American- which would shift the centre of the control Communist station, Rias. All international sold the Information
from Moscow to Belgrade? So It decided to discredit
Marshal washed from "Soviet sources,"
Reports sald that Sckolovsky" the Sunday Dispensed by
Stalin was would be recalled to Russia to take out.
three
over.
pointed
on Important military field Marshal Tito's plans for a Balkan command but he would remain in confederation, his stand on Trieste Berlin until the current crisis is and his ambitions toward Macedonia and which greatly hampered the Greek Responsible American British sources said they have no Communists.
sold that The People's story information on the report and that
"reasonable Marshal Tito has made up his mind agreed it is n they
boots when to All Stalin's speculation."United Press,
Russian leader dics.
the
"He and his leading followers,”
PROMOTION REPORT Berlin, July 11-Marshal Vassili Sokolovksy, the Soviet Commander- the People said. "believe that they In-Chief in Germany and the chief have already outdated the Bolshevic Russian protagonist in the Berlin revolution of 1917.
"They say that Stalin and his crisis, has been marked down for
oldfashioned
utterly promotion to a high military com supporters
the whole mand in Russia, according to poll-fossilised revolutionaries. tical circles close to the Soviet incapable of winning Military Government today-Reu-world over to Bolshevism"-United
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