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CRISIS IN PALESTINE Arab-Jewish Feud Closes Down Roads
CNRRA CHARGES
SHANGHAI, JAN. 25.
Jerusalem-Jaffa
Covered
Road Impassable With
Jerusalem, Jan. 25,
TEN TOP-RANKING The increasing violence of the lighting in Pales-
YES-
CNHRA OFFICIALS TERDAY FACED THE DIS- TRICT COURT ON CHARGES OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN THE DISPOSAL OF LARGE QUANTITIES RELIEF GOODS, INCLUD. ING ELECTRIC FANS, COT. TON-WOOL. WOOL AND FURNITURE.
OF
The exact amount involved in the alleged irregularities was not disclos. ed but it is believed that the figure devami million
itate Chinese dollars.
Two businessmen, a textile factory manager and a building contractor, nid to be involved line af the illegal deals, were arraigned as co defendants,
After a brief hearing, the case was adjourned for further investigation. -Reuter.
Mukden Air Crash Mystery
Pelping. Jan. 25. CNAC investigators are still mystified by the cause of the Mukden plane crash, according to an injured passenger urrlying in Pelping today.
tine, which has disrupted many public ser- vices, is causing a crisis in this strife-torn country's economy.
British economic officials here are predicting an economic collapse when, according to sche- dule, the British start pulling out of the coun- try.
nn
Comunic
Already. the spread of the Arab-Jew fighting has enforced
partition of th business life of the Holy Land with trading between the con munities vatanly strangled by the counter wide road and ra way altches.
In derssalem, the supply and distribution of food and fuel is beginning to show signs of strain as armed Arab guerillas increase their attacks and ambushes 00 the rond and rait trufle in and out of the capital.
a
pended services for nearly week, opening only spasmodicni- ly with a skeleton staff strug ging to clear stacked up inall
Confusion
Having eaten their dinner, two 18-year-old Chinese girls locked themselves Inat night la the kit- civen to have a bath,
lew Ininutes later, they found themselves, stripped of ali their clothes, in the kitchen be low,
the four had given way. Except for being euvered with dust, the girls suffered only a few scratches and shock. Angry and embarrassed they walted with a jerring and laughing crowd look King
until on
clothes were thrown from the upper floor.
To avoid complications. the owner of the building which in- Many British oficials arecidentally Was in Tai Tuen working single-handed in their Strtet, derided to pay a small Mees and public transport func compensation. It is alleged that fi is under daily bomb and bui- he had been informed of the let attack,
dangerous condition of the kit then,
Single-handed
Bank robbers, both Jew and Arab, have become so active re- terally, o:ting tens of thousands Inside Jerusalem, an estimated of pounds from banks in various 1,500 Jews, beleaguered In the parts of the country, that cus- Jewish quarter behind the high mees ure often subjected to a battimented grey walls of the thorough search by armed guards Old City, are so severely black-before being allowed to enter. nded by more than 20,000 hostile Arabs that
only British Army armoured conveys or food and threatened starvation. supplice can
them from
save
Wailing Wall
In spite of armed guards on trains carrying mall, many mall bags were st len by armed ban dits.
Brenuse of the uncertainly of postal security, coupled with the bank robb.ries, the Barclay's Bank in Jerusalem, In common The British authorities
with ther hunks, refused to DC- willing to
Old City cept cheques escort the evacuees. Jews ou
made outside the of their borriended
city, unless such cheques wert
He said airline cirles told him the plane, carrying mostly women and children
худа not unduly
were
overcrowded quarter and the Arabs were will-presented in dupliente.
He said he was told the plane's ing to agree to an "evacuation engines prior
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Thus, guns and bombs, warring
the takeoff truce but the Jews refused to Jews and Arabs, have destroyed "sounded Amonth." but would move, declaring that evacuation the exceptional prosperity which not rise three-fourths down the would mean the abandonment of runway and finally got off the ground "barely Inches" from the end of the runway, wobbling
the holiest
shrine-the Jewish Wailing Wall. b.th Arab and Jew, whose bus Businessmen and shopkeepers all the time and rose no higher inesses were situated in mixed areas, have jort Hundreds of A few minutes Inter the craft
thousands of pounds when their lost altitude
sraall districts were turned into a de-
"No village, skimmed it, bounced off serted
Men's Land" by aun-tights and enstant salping
than 50 feet.
over
A
& railway escarpment and crack-which have taken a heavy toll of
ed into three pieces. United Prens.
life.
Shop assistants, office workers in the Government and clerks Budapest, Jan. 24. and other servicez
are sefusing Hungary and Rumania today to work if it means exposure to signed a 20-year friendship malli attack. Some Governinent de tory aid paci, providing for joint purtinents have closed down. military action against any al- The Jerusotem Post Office, fes tacker.United Press.
tooned with barbed wire,
U-
Crucial Civil War.
Battle In Progress
Shanghai, Jan. 25.
China's best mechanised forces were today rac- ing with all possible speed to the vital Hopei- Jehol-Liaoning (West Manchurian) corridor as the collapse of the Government armies in the Sinlitun area in West Manchuria appeared
Palestine has
been enjoying since the end of the war, and the really severe fighting, which the yet started. Reuter. whole country expects, had not
Impassable
Jerusalem, Jan. 26. salem and Jaffa was impassable The main road between Jeru-
yesterday a few miles s:utheast of Jaffa at a point where a heavy explosion ripped it up early this morning. The
explosion came after Palestine's quietest day since the United Nalitus partition decision which Arab sources said the Arab forces were using to re- group, for new allocks.
The death of an Arab in a gun battle, which developed after an accident north of Hahoriyn, northern Palistine, was officially reported.
t
Thirty Years Later
Wigan, Lancs, Jan. 24. While ploughing a field at Higher House farm near here, Norman Anders, 32- year-old tracter driver, was blown from his tractor and Injured about the head and body when the plough struck what was thought to an anti-aircraft shell
The plough was blown to Bleces and the explosion left a five-feet wide crater. At the Wigan Infirmary. both Anders'
eyes Were found to be injured and one has had to be removed. It Was the first time the ffald was ploughed since 1914.— Reuter.
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THIRTEEN KILLED IN
PHILIPPINES
Manila, Jan. 25.
At least 13 were dead nine seriously injured and many made homeless in Iloilo City as a series of earthquakes rocked the island of Panay for four hours before dawn today.
Four other densely populated islands in Central Philippines, Negros, Cebu, Leyte and Carin- duque, were jolted and shaken by tremors.
One local weather observer at Capiz, provincial capital of north coast Panay, where 11 | separate quakes wire recorded, *** beileved volcanié eruption was responsible for continued tru- bles, but there were no reports of eruption from other sources,
Communication with stricken Panay
Soviet View Of Bevin
London, Jan. 25. Moscow Radio charged today that Foreign Secretary Ernest Berla followed a Wall Street line in his declaration of new British foreign policy doomed to failure because
and kald it is contradicts the vital interests of the European peoples."
came
Atlantic
QUAKE
Ship Drama
Premerhaven. Jan. 26. Nineteen survivors of the Josoph
Ultimate Result In China
*
NEW YORK, JAN, 24, ISAAC EPSTEIN, FORM- ER HONG KONG CORRES- FONDENT IN THE FAR EAST, TOLD A MEETING TODAY THAT THE OLD RULING GROUPS IN CHINA ARE BEING DEFEATED.
Represented by. Generalissimo
the
Were meagre. Prell- minary reports from Hollo told of the terror-stricken population rushing from fragile houses into V. Connolly, which was abandoned Chiang Kai-shek, they have becorde the streets, only to face the with 6,500 coffine aboard in mid-an weak and the movement against graver danger from collapsing Atlantic, arrived here on Saturday them to strong that “even the Unit- walis
aboard the U.S. transport General ed States cannot change the ultimata tower built by the
The Imposing six-store bell R. E. Callan none the worse for result." three centuries ago in front of
Spaniards their harrowing experience.
The rally, sponsored by the left- Twenty soven other persona wing Committer for Democratie Fare Cathedral collapsed, bury aboard the Connolly were picked Palley in the Far East, heard tons of red bricks. ing at least two persons beneath up by another American vessel on Bernard Seaman, another former
The tower January 12,
correspondent, charge that Hrith had withsto:d virtual 80 per The Connolly which WŁA en each passing day President Roxas The broadlenat, quoting article when the Japaness
cent, destruction of the city route to Europe to pick up the the Philippines makes increasingly by Izakow
entered in remains of American war victims clearer that he in In the newspaper
■ prisoner or April 1942.
caught fire and was abandoned. Pravda, said: "It is the-forces
puppet of American vested interests." of Wall Street that dictated to
Much of the damage
Capt. John L. Schinchek, of the If the Pilipino people unite in a from the British Labour Minister the inga originally wrecked
Flame from the large-scale movement to unseat collapsing walls of build- Calle, said:
during burning coffin ship looked like boll- corrupt, ungepulas programme ha expanded of split- the
puppet regime, One ting Europa."
unidentified in Reysers and were visible more then American troops now stationed American Izakov interpreted Mr. Bovin's were caught and fatally crushed
and Αγο Filipinos the 18 miles away."
in the Philippines may be ordered to Princess Chivekiar Ibrahim, of address to the House of Commons on Bluemenrit Strats, one of the sky, of Philadelphia, one of the States policy," Seaman said.--United Second Ofcer Antony Kroschen-protect this quiescent tool of United Core who died intestate lost on Thursday and Friday a principal business thartughfares 19 rescued, said he was on watch February 17, has left £12,023 Programme designed to Fugland, it was
"apili
falling walls, Two children at 5 G.m. on January 12 when he disclosed here Europe." day.
Tho
were among the victime and a noticed smoke billowing from the broadcast saldi The Leiters of administration have Western bloc conceived
mengino room. He gave the alarm by Mr. her children in
modists who was separated from bren
the granted to her husband, Bvin and his colleagues is a sort orished when ruins buried her boats within 45 minutes without darknese and the 40 men aboard hit the life- hamy Husseini Pasha, and to of colonial powers embracing col Wahid Yousay Pasha and Wahidonial peoples in its touncles and
a chance to pick up their posses- Threo others died on a EL Dine Bry, all of Cairo. Reu- sucking the fulces out of them." "hilippine railroad station when
*reet intersection near thelons.-United Press. -United Press.
in abandoned
concrete business bullding gave way and thunder-
d to the ground,
Thousands of city residenta tok shelter in Sunburst Park on the outskirts of the city.
ter
IBRAHIM WILL
London, Jan. 24
Arabs Infiltrate Over Border
Beirut, Jan. 25.
About 1,000-well-trained volunteers slipped across the Palestine border during the last two nights from three neighbouring Arab states, well-informed source said today.
Thla WAS the first major wave of volunteers to infiltrate the Holy Land in preparation for the fullscale war which may break out at any time.
The "Invasion" was executed by three separate forces, one coming from Lebanon on the north, the second from Trans- Jordan on the east and the third from Byria to the north- northeast of the Holy Land.
The Arab policy is gradually becoming cloir,
While waiting evacuation be- for the British foro striking any major blows, the Arabs are building up their of liberation" "army
within Palestine by gradual Infiltra- tion of trained groups with or- ders to lay low uniti further instructions.
The main Arab worry con- tinues to be inadequate arms
and equipment, Palestines Arabs are clamouring for wea- pons, especially for the defence of coastal positions. They are particularly concerned about Jatta around which the Jews have strengthened their post- tions, virtually cutting it off from the outside.
To divert Zionist pressure on Jaffa the Arabs have been sending reinforcements to Balme and Abou Kebir, two Arab villages wedged into Jow- Ish held areas.
Halidi,
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home.
war.
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!
Twelve ad
Manila, Jan. 25,
FLAG WAVING
Preas.
Pakistan Fighting
New Delhi, Jan. 25. Unoflicist reports today said that large numbers of camel-mounted Patan tribesmen poured across the Pakistan order on Friday night and hesleged the tiny Indian staté of the Fareign Office is considering mak
It was reliably reported today that Jaisalmer in Rajputans.
Nanking, Jan. 25.
ing diplomatic representations
до
The reports sid that the raiders, tocrossing from Kharpur, plundered Slam againer the banning of the fly-several villages with ing of Chinese national flagi in number of canaleles. Chinese schools
The Siamese Government An Iloilo correspondent report-ordered that only Siamese flags should ed that another quake shook Iloilo be flown and the Siamese national City at 5.46 am. GMT, lasting two anthem sung in a fag raising cert minutos.
mony in the morning-United Press
Con-
Meanwhlio 12 dead was firmed, including James Hoffmen, 68. Norwegian cook of the steam- ship HiwasIOS.
Damage thus far was estimated. at $250,000.
SHIP ABLAZE
unknown
Official-courtes had no confirmation-
Tut it is understood that the Ministry
of Interior has already directed
roops to the scene-United Press.
OFF TO IRAQ
London, Jan. 25, The Prime Minister of Iraq. Rotterdam, Jan, 25. Sayed Saleh Jobur, and, nieu- A fire. which took eightberg ut the Iraq! treaty delega- hours to extinguish, partly des- tion to Britain, left London by troyed 35 tons of raw cotton air for Iraq in a specially char- atest quake, women and children swedish ship Sonja berthed
Panic gripped the city in the and damaged the remainder in tered York plane of the British campering into the streets. Ons here.
the holds of the 1,588-ton Overseas Airways Corporation
today. was heard shouting, "My God, s this the end."
Eleven injured are at prosent hospitalised in Hollo while 32 re- fused to go to hospital-United Press,
Manila Shooting
Manila, Jan. 25.
The cause of the fire was un- known.-Reuter.
The Premier signed the new Anglo-Iraqi tresty at Ports- mouth last week.-Reuter.
Coldest Day This Winter
The Colony was grippe din a cold spell throughout yesterday when the temperature fell to 40.7" F.
Carrying rifles, revolvera, The accident occurred when a grenades and a few tommy- British Army water lorry crushed guns, the Arabs trundled into into a Jewish armoured bus last trucks from their Syrlan stag- night, causing is occupants to being area at the Kattan training Heve that they had been attack-camp and were carried to three ed and to open fire.
"tronts." Arab villagers, hearing the The convoys fanned out as shooing in the darkness, also
they approached the Holy Joined in the fight.-Router.
Land, dropping men at various points Gome distance apart. Each small force included a leader, deputy leaders and a Palestine Arab guide. As before
A Captain in the Ordnance Section
"The best policeman we can have," and the army-like bell tents were the each group has specific orders
of the Philippion Army Command aid a certain European police in- only sign of resistance." The Chinese not to clash with the British. Arab Higher Committee's Gen- on highway 544 miles north of evidently sight.
Palestine was shot by unidemlied ladividualspector of the weather, and he is national flag, towering above the The Arab
reinforcement cral-Secretary, told the Leban Manila at nine o'clock at night,
white slogan flags, benesth it, futter- make their way afoot under on daily: "Palestine Arabs need
ed bravely in the cold winde. cover of darkness to their as-
The coldest day this winter saw The ordnance Captain left his Hong Kong and Kowloon streets gingerly threading the dangerous arms. If the Arab world pro-"
An occasional being would be seen signed hill area in Palestine vides us with arms we will be
depolit
accompanied by Lieutenant where most of them work at a
friend. After devoid of the usual Sunday "markets" bypaths evidently to get som
some bever- able, without outside help, toto visit the home of secret base which will serve defeat as the headquarters for Fawz
the Zionists within a leaving the gate, the Lieutenant die bane of the police. The only evidence his "sanctuary" to get down for some
and "cafes" which have been the
ages, Then a policeman would leave lew months. Kawaki,-field
I say this with covered he had forgotten a pack Reseca of the usual bustling were the cigarettes or "stock" returning hand- commander of full knowledge of the Jewish and leaving, the unarmed Captain in the Arab forces.
strength."-United Press. the jeep, he went back to his quarters. low improvised "buts" scattered far ful to his Car perched on the bill be-
Returning five minutes later, he and between-scene of relief and hind the much-disputed area.
imminent in the face of the relentless Com-Soviet Aims
munist attacks.
These mechanised units, transferred only recently from the Shantung front, are said to be con- verging on Sinlitun-described as the key point of the entire railway network in West Manchuria-from south-west Manchuria and the north-eastern Hopei port of Chinwangtao.
patches make RD
For Peace
Moscow, Jan. 25. The Foreign Minister M. Molotas, was quoted in "Pravda" today saying the Soviet Union is trying to nastire long lasting peace.
The
reportedl newspaper
that
The latest pro-Government dis- lish his headquarters in the Gees Molotor told the Ukrainian Supreme *tate of Soviet (Parliament), in Kiev: "Our peace loving peoples are striving for
attempt 20 play Walt city of Shanhail;wan, down the seriamness of the Govern On the Yangtze feant, a
190
ment's position and it was reparted emergency has been declared in the the assurance of a firm, long peace that the outskirts of the chy have former treaty port of chang. been lost and that several Commun miles due west of Bankow, as the
and the security of peoples, This is ist armies have gained a footing in-result of the approach of a Commun
the hatis of the Statinine foreign side the city and are at present at force numbering several thousands policy of the Soviet Union." attacking the railway station.
The
high Government leaders
vanguard of this army was
as express point only 20 miles east of the city.
Fan Han-chich, "comidauder of the resources,
I'rcan.
Associated
Anti-Smuggling
Hussein
More Irritating Than Fatal"
Informed British Foreign Office sources said today
London, Jan. 25.
that France's reported franc, devalua- tion plan would make it more difficult for Bri- tain to maintain the present value of the pound sterling, but would not result in its de- valuation......
"
A source close to the Treasury said: "It would be
more irritating than fatal.
found the Captain lying in the road
momentary joy to the usually karana beside the jeep with bullet wound ed
who despite days of constables, vigilance could not "evice" the per- sistent barkers. There were also very a pedestrians 'seen, and those out
In his temple. The officer rushed to the Tenth General Hospital where his condition was critical. Associated Pres.
AMERICAN SHOT
Conversations overhead in buses, trams and ferry launches boiled down to: Our weather T most fickled, lika lady. Today's the coldest day since a long time. > necessity had to brave the chill, It may be recalled that early last wrapped up like Deduolos, in getting week the "winter samson" took a turn outdoor.
upwards, the highest temperature re gistered being 70.9 degrees Fahrenheit Even the Police Stations reported on Tuesday. Complaints then could "Very Quiet" to inquiries. The cold be audibly must have been lodeed a good police- "elekyness" and "Whew, it's warm!"
heard anywhere
+
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THE WEATHER
of
Berlin, Jan., 24. An American -Hallenant was shot in the shoulder by a Rus
Buses did not have the mual full sian soldier in the American esc capacity. Inquiries from several in- tor of Berith early t:day United spectors indicated that not one bus States Air Force omciala sald to had been "packed" yesterday-unlike day-United Press,
the Saturday crowds.
General altation a--Intense Giberian The movie halls however were anti-cyclone continues to dominate Haina observed to be as usunt with the and Japan. Trough extande from the wulf of Toskín to the Exrees Stralis to a rapid- the
ly deepening depression, moving to south of Tonkin.
Forchtrach N, te NE winds, stronge
STUDENTS SACKED patron gathering in force
howing hour...
st
The despatches, however, quote fat night nail to have reached Molotov spoke at a session of the Supreme Soviet in celebration of the Ing confidence that the mechanted which, before the war, was one of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Re: 30th anniversary of the founding of reinforcements will turn the tide of the upper Yangue ports thrown open public "Pravda" said. one of the most crucial battles ever to international trade. fought in Manchuria a son, as they
The
Keneral, military situation was scrive on the scene and aying into reviewed at a conference in Nunking action.
yesterday evening, called by President Meanwhile, General Wel Li-huang, Chiang Kai-shek, which decided, the sew Manchurian Commanderinamong other things, to postpone Chiel, after
an emergency confes proposed meeting of all Nationalist ence in Mukden with General Chen military chiefs early in February. Chong, Chief-of-Staff, and Geurent
According to
pro-Government Mr. K.T. Ting, Deputy Com
Canton, Jan. 25. A picture of mute despair was the the
ww missioner of the Chinese Mari. postponement.
Several thousandsudents are environments of the much publicised by the fact that many ime Customs and concurrenity Britain's concern about the Informed SOURCES
sald
the expected to be thrown out of school Kowloon City ren, where recently possible to leave their posts at present hal, arrived in Hong Kong yester export market was reflected by loopholes through which pocula
police had to report to tear gas and It was reported here
This today
8.5. Wing Sang" the fact that the Chancellor of tors could buy pound sterling for consequence of decision of private agalast the
is expected to resule In bullets to disperse a demonstration that owing to the milleary situation in day by the General Fan will probably be sp. their areas.
from Taiwan.
the Exchequer, Sir Stafford less than the official rate. They schools to increase their feds. by BreThe Police Patrols were huddled alfalls of 41 in Total sinee
Government eviction pointed Commander-in-Chief of the Among the present at yesterday's Mr. Ting's visit to the Colony Sir Wilfrid Eady, pecond secredincult for the government to
Crippa tock with him to Parin said it would make it much more times-Central Nord naw Communist Suppression Head discussions, were the acting Ministeri in connection with the recent tary of the Treasury, and Mr. mattain the official rate but in quarters In the Hopel-Jehol-Liaoning of National Defence, General Chiny encluded Hong Kong China Cameron Cobbold, Deputy Govsisted that this did not mean the corridor, so as to complete the arch-sues, the Vice-Minister of De Customs Agreement file will senior of the Bank of England, Insyllable devaluation of the rangement with General Fu Troy, fence, Omeral Liu Fi, the Deputy discuss technical drills prior to These two men last teamed for pounds Commander-in-Chief for North Chiefs of General Staff, General Lin the enforcement of the anti- foreign mission last August in Chins for cooperation between their Wal and General Fang Tien, and smuggling measures in which the United States when Britain The Financial Times"
General Fan ja expected is įstabil Cheer of Nanh Klangsu front,
General Hu Chu-tung, Commander the Hong Kong Government has decided to suspend the free cons the French plant would create "* 313
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