1947-09-11 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1947.

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A Pitched Battle

Fanatical Zionist Blamed For Clash

Women Scream And Flail Their Arms

Hamburg, Sept. 9.

British troops today battled for an hour with Jew- Ish refugees before breaking their resistance to disembarking on German soll. Steel helmeted troops went into action armed with

high pressure water hoses, steel tipped truncheons, gas guns and masks, and "walkie

talkic radios for keeping close touch with the shore.

MOUSE A SABOTEUR

Manila, Sept. 10,

A little moto yesterday morning caused hundreds of Manila residents eat cold breakfasts.

The mouse, in an investiga- five mood, found its way into the main oil circuit breaker of the city's power system. Before the little fellow extricated, considerable age was incurred as well as a poor shutof during the breakfast hour-United Press.

dam-

kept on singing it until she lost consciousness.

Jews To Enter

France?

.

London, Sept. 9. British and French authorities in Paris were today. discussing the technicalities surrounding the par sible numission to France of the "Exodus" Jews at Hamburg. The Jown replied with The authorities Kave the

Foreign Office spokesman stated. screaming. kicking, struggling, Jews half an hour. later ex-j

The spokesman did i not make it seratching auth, above all, fana- tended to an hour, before send

ment had agreed in principle 10 clear whether the French Govern- Hel hatred.

ing in the troops. The first The total casualties were: ultimatum was greeted in all-

accept any Jews who may, select ence, the second with whist- the Jews through the top grat

The hoses were turned to move to France from Germany. Ung and jeers.

In reply to the recent British the samg request to hold - open ing of the bold, the pressure asylum facilities that were avail- of the water sweeping them abla to the Jews when they ra. from the bottom of the single fused to land at Port de Boue, the the floor. ladder and from the centre of French Government agreed to ne- cept the Jows from the three Bil- tain transports provided they were not forcibly disembarked.

one

One soldier with a broken wrist, one with a cracked hend Fanzel

with cut face, Seventeen Jewish men were in. Jured, the worst having a bro ken wrist, and seven women, for suffering from hysteria.

The resistance on board the Runnymede Park, the third and fast of

the "Exodia" "hips was ascribed by the British civil governor of Hamburg, Mr. Vaughan Berry, to one alone, who is said to rule with

rod of iron,"

man

Then the troopa went in.

Eyewitness Account Reutera dent, in an eyewitness account, special correspon-

relates:

•

The

on

The question of principle to be cleared up is whether the French Government considers the disem barkation at Hamburg wan

for.

As soon as the bottom of Jewish Exodus refitgeen on the helmeted soldiers, carrying steel Ninety per cent of the 1500 the steps were cleared, steel Runnymede Park today fought tipped truncheons, fied into the savagely for un hour and hold "at the double." half with the British troops.

troops deployed in aeible-Reuter. For the after the steel helmeted soldiers ed the Jews against the walls; first few minutes hollow square formation, shov- had streamed into the holda, of the hold. A shower of: were not used, but as the battle, he'mets of the troops.

tipped truncheons vegetable tins clanked of steel Italy's Left Wing Socialista became more violent, they were!

tonight presented 31 Burprise wieked.

Here and there, in

Immi. motion of no confidence in the grant attempted to But his non-Leftist government to the way through the ring of steel National Assembly an Premier but was beaten back with club Alcide de Gasperi'a party held blows about the shoulder and an emergency meeting to study the upper arms.

the tense political situation. i United Press.

This man, believed to be call-the ed Mordecai Miry Rosman, and for 20 years a famatlen Zion ist, had organised for battle from the moment the ship left Gibraltar. Mr. Berry Brid.

steel

ed beemme

Fire Hoses Resistanee on board the

High pressure fire hoses were hit ended when he was

Bed to subdue the Jews. Wo turged down the gene-

men, children and old people way stili battling against

fought as savage'y as the men.

Boy Begins It overwhelming otdis and

"Teen-age" boys put up a par- Thep boy, aged about 15, ticularly violent resistance. Trendfest

to prison..

lashed out at the soldiers hust- Then the ship was cleared,

The operation was complicating him towards the stairway. Trimble started anew at the surly this morning. tore town him up the stairs.

the immigrants. The soldiers started carrying trains transporting the Jews to all two of the stairways the camps.

Halfway up, he kicked free lending to the holds, thus of the four soldiers The refured food, tried Luž

holding creating two smash fences and even the iron! necks,

serious hottie him and pitched down the stair. way, carrying two of the sol- The soldiers on They spat at British Runnymede Park reported that

board the diers with him. fiers and abusest reporters, Jewish lenders had held a Women screamed and flailed |_mischt-long-mass meeting.

In the early morning, before the battle, religious services were held in the holds.

Throughout the greater part of the battle. the Jews chanted the Zinist anthem and last girl carried from the holds f

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Dozen Arrests

When the trains ved T. 1 more than a dozen ringleaders of the resistance were left in Hamburg prisons.

In contrast to the other two hips, which disembarked with anly the briefest trouble

yes. terday and earlier. this morn- ing, trouble passed down the gongway.

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He gripped a atitirpost at the bottom of the stairs and bug a for nearly a minute while soldiers struggled to pry him lose.

Meanwhile the Jews broke into wild cheering. mingled with piercing screams from the women and children.

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Time Bomb Explodes After Landing

Hamburg, Sept. 9.

A time bomb was found aboard the Empire Rival shortly after all the Jews had disembarked to- day and it exploded ashore with such force that hundreds of windows were shattered.

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aboard.

Prague. Sept. 9.

The Empire Rival was the Require Tehela, defendant be-only vessel of the three where (ore ·ពន Albanian espionage resistance was not offered and court, alleged that he had been though the bomb wag feand trained by American intelligence shortly after the Jews had left agents for canlongge and the ship the British authorities Babotage in that ry, the withheld the announcement. news agency Tanjug reported

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