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PALESTINE BOILING OVER

Jerusalem A "Besieged City"

AMERICAN AIRMEN DETAINED

'Belgrade, Aug. 14. Authorities here have: held incommunicado the occupants of an Ameri- can C-47 Army transport which was forced down near Ljubljana by Yu- goslav fighters on Fri- day.

The

officer in Yugo-Slav charge at the scene refused to tell US. State Department re- presentative where the pants of the plane are being held.

Occi-

Harold Shantz, Charge d'Affairs of the United States Embassy, said "we have been given no indication of when they will be released."

are

nationality unknown, was jured," "bit" "all the "olliers aboard the plane are in perfect condition."

"Shame To The British Navy"

Jerusalem, Aug. 14.

Fifty thousand British troops were garrisoning Palestine early today, on the alert for the Haganah's promised reaction to the deporta- tions of Jewish illegal Immigrants. In the all Jewish city of Tel Aviv, British police forces are patrolling the streets, after entering the city just before midnight. Outside the city, armoured cars, were standing by.

ZIONISM HIGHLY ORGANISED

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London, Aug. 13.

Mr. John Cognel, con- tributing to the London "Evening News" today Jan article on the back- ground to the Palestine problem, writes: "Zion- ism is not only longing to return to its lost

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Loputon, Aug. 14. The "Dally Mall" said to- day that the Government is believed to have decided to abolish capitai punishment in the United Kingdom for a five-year period beginning January, 1949. It is under- sload that the decision will be announced by the Home Secretary when Parliament reassembler in · Autumn, the paper said.

investigations, of capital punishment by a prison re- forms committee are reported to have shown that the in- fluence of executions is bad on other prisoners. — Aszo- clated PrenÉ.

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Macabre Series Of Girl Murders

(By Barton D. Pattie)

London, Aug. 14.

A macabre series of slayings of pretty women and young girls is giving Scotland Yard Investi- gators their greatest trial in many years, So baffling and clueless have been some of the deaths that 21 killings since the war, 14 of them involving females, remain unsolved.

Some of the victims died under such grisly circumstan- ces that hardened delectives used auch adjeétives as "horri- ble," "ghastly" and "grue- some" in their report.

Scotland Yard won't attempt. to analyze the current murder sicgc, They do say that the eruption of anti-social bc- haviour which has hit Britain since the war, far exceeds any-

homeland. It has de- MYSTERY MOVE thing experienced after 1918. and efficient and highly BE EGYPTIAN

Jerusalem's central area looked like a besieged city. The guards at police headquarters and Government buildings had been strengthen-veloped into a vigorous ed. Barbed wire fortifications-guarded the American Consulate. Infantry were quarter- ed in the Public Information Öffice." Armour- ed cars in pairs were patrolling Royal Air Force stations.

resist

tration:

ware ejected from

the

organised effort to set up

a Jewish national stafe in Palestine.

height

have

AMBASSADOR

Death Of H.G. Wells

London, Aug. 14. Herbert George Wells,

au- "

Crimes of all types are being the world famous committed at more than double thor, died on Tuesday at the rate of the late 30's. In his London home, at the metropolitan London an average

of 10,000 offenses has been reage of 79.

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London; Aug. 14.

ing health for a considerable"

.

methods of exposition.

throughout the world.

Ho-and his work were known

With Shaw, he was one of the big Rudyard Kipling and Bernard three of modern English Utera-

ture.

corded monthly since V-E Day, His secretary told the Anzo- compared with 4,000 clated Press that Mr. Wells

"died peacefully at 4 pm." For the first two years of the

average in 1938. Throughout Palestine, British lowed the calling of a general

Some members of Scotland The statement, was tranquil, a

which thr troops were munting a network strike-from 6 p.m. yesterday war Palestine

A certain amount of Yard's undermanned homicide secretary of the famous author of blocks along the main roads, until midnight by the Jewish useful base for the British in the mystery surrounds the force have been working 16 would

not elaborate, con- National Council in Jerusalem, Middle East. From the middle of As the first batch of illegal who had earlier decided to en- 1041 onwards, however, Jewish- sudden return to Alex-hours a day and many have not tinued: "He had been in fail- immigrants were being deported force the policy of non-coopera- British relations deteriorated. In andria yesterday of the had a day off in three months,

a spokesman said.

time. The funeral will he from Haifa to^Cyprus, troops tion against the local adminis- early 1943 Britain was at the Egyptian Ambassador to

private." opened fire on thousands of cur

Murder Mysteries of her prestige in the

Wells, through many years of few breakers trying to gel

The most recent mysteries on his life, had been a prophet of Middle East-Germans and Ita- London, Abdul Fatimah through to the strictly guarded

Warning Shots

been driven out of Amir Pasha.

which Yard Inspectors are In Jerusalem. the police firedians had He added that early reportsport, killing three Jews and in-

"The working hardest at the moment! Come," and lie had made science Shape of Things ts: saying the pilot and co-pilot juring seven.

warning shots last night into Africa by the British Army. Had

While he is known to have are those of: were injured

apparently

the air when Jews tried to hold we then formulatet n new and

neat Zion comprehensible Palestine polley it left London yesterday morning

Ars, Lillian Miller, 20-year- and history the popular sub- fulse.

The only move by the Ha મા demonstration Shant said one passenger ganah--the illegal Jewish de Square in the heart of the city, without arab resistance and with more than one, official at the soldier who was strangled to by breathing into

been put through by air travelling incognito, old blonde wife of a Canadian jects of the man in the street. dry. fence force said to consist of after a protest meeting against Jewish co-operation.

Egyptian Embassy stated yes

death on footpath after at- 80,000-members-ao-far-bus--the-doportations to Cyprus.. The Palestine crisis has one terday afternoon that he was tending a dance in the Cathe been to lasue a "passive resis Meanwhile, in Haifa harbour,

cause somewhat over-still in Britain.

dral City of Canterbury. tance" order, posted in handbills a strange drama was being play-major

looked in. Britain: The British

Authorities have questioned throghout Tel Aviv yesterday, ed out as ragged and unkempt Labour Party are in power. For no doubt that Arir Pnaha's re- 1,700 British soldiers quarter

Informed quarters here have calling on Jews to disregard any Jews further curfew and to

ybars up to and including the turn to Egypt is connected with ed near the murder scene but Blackpool Conference last year the prolonged hitch in the rego-have not unearthed clue. questioning.

Wells had 50 books to his Labour bad been idly pro-tiations for the revision of the Mrs. Francio Vera Mizzi, 26, Zlonist. Zionista expected support Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936. described by the police as well from Labour; they exited a re- The Ambassador is reliably known in Piccadilly Circus hare ecclelogg political.coonomy and

They

ran the gamut of versal of the 1939 White Paper understood to have had a long and clubs, strangled with and encouragement of large-scale conversation with the Foreign stocking in her London flat especially in his younger years romance" and not infrequently. Immigration.

Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bavin, in Three United States servico- Instead they have

into flights of fancy through bad what the short period between the lat- men wore questioned but re-which he predicted many of the they think to be an evasiveness ter's return to work at the For-lenscă. almost amounting to a betrayal. eign Office after his indisposi Muriel Joan Drinkwater, 12-Inventiong by which the 20th Already embittered against the tion last week and his depar-year-old Welsh singing school-century, has distinguished British administration in Pales-ture for the Parls conference. girl raped and shot to death in His book, "The Outline of line they are now deeply hostile But in the opinion of Londona wood near Swansea. to Britain and the British people.observers, Amir Panha's return

History" sold one and I half Sheila Martin, 11, strangled, million copies and made him a The whole weight of the ter- to take part lit the treaty rovi- with her own hair ribbon in a richman

in Palestine is directed aion talks--a wholly normal pro- thicket near Falkham Green not against the Arahs but against cedure on the part of an Am- while 10,000 persone watched to fame revealed

The story of Mr. Wells rise the British troops and public and bassador-would not explain the motorcycle races a few yards over many disadvantages, He the whole apparatus of the Goveonditions of secrecy surround away. ment-Reuter.

was born

humble circumstan- His father was a profes-+ sional cricketer. When Wella left school, he became ค draper's apprentice and then a chemist assistant. This life he hated and in 1889 he became an assistant master at a pri- vate school.

The passengers included six United States Army personnel. one American civilian and three others. Authorities in charge here refused to give the Ameri can representative the name of those in the plane, but said they are being given the bestTM of treatment, good quarters and good food,"

The Yugo-Slav Government cont a note to the Embassy complaining! of

in- "ever

At an anti-British torchlight demonstration in Tel Aviv yea erday, 20,000 Jews shouted down all references to the Bri- fish Government. Other d moni trators, carrying banner with Shame to the British Navy" o them. tried to set fire to RB creasing" violations of Yugo-an. red ear, then surged down

the main Alleniy Slavia's sovereignity.

Road and "This case reveals that cer-

smashed the windows of a Bri- tain crews not only wilfully violated Yugo-Slavia's sovereig- nity, but as wilfully refused to submit to lawful calls from this morning, was dispersed by Yugo-Slav planes. Only after Jewish police after trying to determined action by our break into Government build- fighters Was the American inga.

tish department store, Spinneya, Another Tel Aviv crowd, par- streets early ading the main

plane forced to land," the note The issue of the flaganal,

SERVICE HEADS CONFER

London, Aug. 14. British Service chints at- · tended a meeting of the Cabi- act at No. 10 Downing Street this morning when (according to reliable sources) they re- ported to the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, on the situation in Palestine after the banning of illegal Immi¬ gration-Reuter.

"floating slums" that had brought them to the "Promised

declared.-Associated Press. "passive resistance" order fol Land" and climbed up the de-

Hong Kong Victory Stamps

portation ships that were carry-.

rorism

U.S. Dollars

ing them to camps in Cyprus. Backing

Some offered resistance. to the British troops as they climbed the gangways but others went quietly on to the next stage of their long journey.-Renter.

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More Ships

The Jews

London, Aug. 14. A spokesman of the Colonial Jerusalem, Aug. 14. Office speelfically named "Am- ship, containing illegal Jerican financial sources" as rea- Jewish refugees, the fourth to ponsible for "encouraging and enter Palestine waters since directing" the illegal Immigra- Monday morning, was today re-tion of Jews Into Palestine. ported to be nearing Halfa, Sho

ing his departure.—Reuter,

(Continued on Page 8, Col. 5.)

Shocking Conditions In Army Camp

Singapore, Aug. 14. Lieutenant-Colonel R. Leyland, commanding offi

cer of the Thirteenth Parachute (Lancashire) Battalion (263 mẹn of which are facing a court martial at Kluang on charges of mutiny at Muar camp), told the court today that sani-

-

will be arrested on entering ter The spokesman made the tary conditions in the Semarang camp in Java

ritorial waters.

atatement when asked to

des-

The first consignment of Hongkong Victory Com- memorative Stamps, which was despatched by air from England on July 30th, has been held up at Rangoon, and the Hongkong postal au- thorities were therefore unable to issue the stamps for sale on Wednesday, August 14th.,

A Jewish Agency spokesmancribe the "very large financial the first anniversary of the cessation of hostili anid today that two more illegal contributions" which, the Bri-. ties, as originally intended. They will be is- Immigrant, ships, carrying 1,300tish statement sald on Monday passengers, were approachingnight, were financing the masa sued as soon as they arrive in the Colony.

Palestine waters and that others exodus of European Jewn to the The Commemorative isnue de would soon be leaving European | Holy Land. in two denominations, of 30 ports on their way here-- cents and $1. printed in blue and Reuter. red, and brewn and red respec-

In Cyprus tively. The design of the

Famagusta, Aug. 14. stampa is symbolical, consisting Two ships bringing Jewish of a "Phoenix Rising from the illegal immigrants from Halfa, Fiamca" with a medallion of the which arrived at Famagusta King's head above, and a scrolearly this morning, were today bearing the dates 1841-1945 be-anchored half a mile off shore and nearly a mile apart with On each side of the shield is the crufsor "Ajex" a lion supporting a shield; end on the shields are the Chinese

IRAN AND BRITAIN

London, Aug, 13.. -New Yoric radio reporta that Hussein Ala, Iranian, Ambassador to the United, States, stated in Washington today that Iran might be "forced" to bring the present. dispute with Britain over the troops sent to Basra before the United Nations 'Security. Council Reuter,

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Mr. Wells has often been compared with Jules Verne and some of his early fantasies show similar Imaginative tendencies to those of Verne. Recognition as a writer camo to Wells after the publication of his book "The Time Machine," The

Stolen the Bacillus," "The War of Worlds" and "The Invisible Man."

Ware

were "shocking." There was no water and

His Last Years only one tent for the entire battalion.

Mr. Wells' Inst years When the battalion arrived at) The Judge Advocate asked tinged with certain sadness be- Muar

early in

May, he was whether the battalion was going cause all his life he had dream- "amazed to find that the camp at that time into actual opera-ed of world peace and progresa. was not n better condition" tions.

because it has been occupied by Colonel Leyland replied: "The Cooperation among the peoples Deciuing to name individuals aix

Britial and Indian troops for situation could not be described of the world was the keynote Colonel aa active operations in the real ved to see the atomic bomb, of much of his writing but he months, declared or-organizations, or better to Leyland, who was a witness for sense of the word," identify the "American financial the prosecution..

which he' foretold in 1914 ̧in When he arrived at the Muar (Confinued on Fage 0, Col. 6.) sources", the spokesman refer- Referring to the alleged mu-leamp on May 6, Colonel Ley- red a reporter to "the many ad-tiny-the men are said to have land said that he tried to bring. vertisements in United States refused to parade the Colonel up an advance party from Singa newspapers appealing for

THE WEATHER to aid European Jews to get to ignored his order to go back to owing to a fatal accident which remains highest to the north east ovidence that his men pore to improve the camp but General diluations, -- Pressure Palestine by illegal menus."

He cited one advertisement, ed a table

Ho install had just occurred, no officers of Japan and the south of Borne02. the company mess, published in April, which car canteen and requested those telephoned to the Deputy Assis depression is centerd over Enst and chairs in the were available. Next day ho It is low over Chinn generally. A ried the phrase "American dol-men to go back to their com tant Quartermaster General, Chins...

money

gave

moving west-north ́west/

bo

characters for Hong Kong. On The ships were the "Empire lars. pitted against British panies, tolling them at the same who assured him that a compot- The typhoon is situated each side of the stamps are two Heywood," flying the British arms."-Associated Press.

time of the seriousness of their ent engineer officer would ins- tween 600 and 700 miles north uprights, each bearing four Chi. flag, and an unmarked ship, 1 (In New York, Ben Hecht, behaviour. Only four or five pect the camp and soo why the west of the Marianas and is nese characters, those on the estimated to be of 12,000 tons playwright and chairman of the obeyed.

National Committee for a Free

work had been delayed. Fight denoting The Return of and flying no flag.-Renter.

The battalion was drafted! The witness added that as Today's forecast:-Light mo the Phoenix Brings Prosperity"

Palestine, said his organization from an English base to Singn-Isanlor officer of the brigado as derate south west winds. Cloudy and those on the left "Perpetuni

Tel Aviv, Aug. 13. had paid for the advertising pore where the men were billet-well as the battalion commander, with intermediate rain at first, Peace Between China and Bri- The Municipal Council of Tol mentioned by the Colonial Office led at Raffles College.

the had sent a letter stating, dui improving," `tain","

Aviv lasued a proclamation today apokesman and declared that

Reporting their movements what priorities were necessary The design of the stamps was demanding the landing of all re--"wo will continue our worked out in Stanley Intern- fugees who have arrived off the and try to increase them one or that, he said that at the for repairs and stores to bring ment Camp by the Pontmaster-shores of Palestine,

hundred fold. There has not been Selangor barracks (Singapore) the camp to a proper standard. enough

the mon had to sleep on General, Mr. I. Wynne-Jones,

the Between May 6 and May 14, money raised yet floor and there was neither lighting was arranged, food Police and Troops Stoned by and Mr. W. E. Jones, Senlor

American support of Palesting water nor lights on their arri-stores were improvised and kit. Max: Rel. Humidly-16 per Jewish Crowds.

Draughtsman of the Public

| Is in its infancy.”)—Associated vol. Works Department

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efforts

Colonel Leyland added:

Yesterday's Weather:--

Maxima: 69.2degrees

Minimum:---78 degrees. Sunshine:--0.9 hours. “Kalndalt:0.085-Inches.

When the battalion went to built Batavia, the billata were over. crowded and later, at Semarang would point out that no material house which foll down on the Vatican City, Aug. 14. (Java) the "canitary conditions was made available and after second day. Its timber and rub Pope Pius XII, on Tuesday, were shocking "There was no six monthal Occupation by Bri- Wie ware used for the hard floors Arthur Maasner, water and only one tent for the fish and Indian troops," it was of the lentes During the woek Ambassador to entire battalion. Later, the bat obvious that there was very lis- before the affogod mutiny, stores who presented him talion, find dyn be darkening At to scrap lyipir around. In fact were obtained. Including some

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