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Jerusalem, Apr: 1.

Nine Jews were killed and 17 wounded when a largo Jewish food convoy, trying to fight its way through the Arab blockado to relieve the Jowish quarter of Jerusalem, made a second at- tampt today to burst through Arab road blocks in the Judean Hills.. The convoy, which had been sheltering near the settlement of Hulda, after being ambushed by Arabs, last night, made its bid to get through simultaneously with a strong drive by Haganah forces at Mount Costel, in the hills west of Jerusalem, in an attempt to beat back the Arabs lying in wait for the food lorries.

The casualties were thought to have been high among the Haganah "striking forte." The Jews claimed to have killed 20 Arabs.

The convoy was forced to turn back after the battle,

The convoy has already lost two armoured cars, one lorry and a tractor, the police head- quarters announced today.

The convoy was held up by at Arab mines and road blocks the village of Hulda. The vehicles teft were apparently wrecked and burned out when they tried 10 smash through some road blocks.

Another report said the Arabs had captured six armoured forries during last night's attack. The Arabs claimed 60 men of the Haganah guards have been killed, though the Jowish Agency

maintained there had been no fatal casualties.

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Meanwhile, officials of Palestine Government have been in touch with Arab lenders in an attempt to negotiate methods by which food convoys may be allowed to enter Jerusalem with- out bloodshed.

Food Hoarding

Jews in Jerusalem are

Ing Linned food and joutalde the breadshops

tions resolution on partition last touched off fresh November

strife. official Amb-Jewish Agures, disclosed today.

Of those killed, 110 were Brl- tah soldiers or police. More than 4,000 people have also been wounded, 1,107 of them serious- ty.

The sources showed that 500 of the deaths occurred during March this year. Reuter.

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Washington, Apr. 1.

Spain has been eliminated from the European recovery programme by the Joint House and Senato Confer. ence, now sliting on the final ald legislation.

Earlier In the day, the Presidential Prom Becretary, Mr. Charles Ross, sald Preal- dant Truman "is utterly op posed" to the Inclusion of Spain in the ERP. He said the President wlsbad the Spain clause, Inserted by tha Housa, to be stricken out from the draft isgislation at the Bonata-House Confer- ence/Router.

Three Day Fire In "Ocean Mail"

Scattle, April 2

A three-day fire in the Shang- hai bound freighter, Ocean Mall, has been extinuished at Dutch Harbour, the Coast

ported on Thursday.

Guard re-

The extent of damage is not known and it is not known whe- ther the grafn laden vessel would be able to proceed. She put in- to Dutch Harbour, Alaska, where the fire was put out with Coast Guard aid.-Associated Press,

Italy In Favoured Position

London, Apr. 1.

There is "a certain element of truih" in a report that British colonies will, in future, give Italy trade" preferences moro favourable than are enjoyed by the Dominions, a Colonial Office spokesman, sald today,

The spokesman was commen- ting on a statement by Sir Earlo Page, former member of the Aus- tralian Government, that the Colonial Omco had instructed Fast African colonies to

give Italy and Germany trade pro- ference over Dominions such as South Africa and Australia.

com- Sir Earle Page urged a bined Dominion protest to the British Government.

"The report is not true about Germany," the spokesman said, "but there is a certain element of, truth in it with regard to Italy," which arises from interpretations of Colonial Office directives by individual colonies."

The British Government will shortly issue fresh instructions to British colonies on trade pre- ferences, Reuter learns-Router.

Committee BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

Geneva, Apr. 1.

A Ukrainian speech Was ex- punged from the records today at the United Nation. Conference on

Freedom of Information.

In the first such action taken. since the conference opened, the Commitice an Collection and Transmission of News voted 18 to involves the

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

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5 to eliminate from the record a events, whereby each sido suiting built his plan, the timing declaration by the Ukrainian does its part in helping eliminate made it wise now to load the hoard-delegate, Gregory Pobega.

losers in the next suit. In a heart 10, letting West have it queueing Pobega introduced into a tech-spade contract, for instance, the with the J. The diamond 10 because inlcal discussion on censorship clubs may be used to get rid of came back to the A. Now ho of dwindling stocks.

by a lengthy declaration com-a a losing heart, the hearts then shed losers like water off a

a duck's A martar homb exploded plaining against

"censorship may be employed to get rid of a back. He scored the club K, led. near the Zlon

Elon Gatemons of the private owners, bank tycoons, losing diamond, and along the

to the heart A, discarded the and way the spade suit may be em-heart 9 with the spade Q to set eight gates of Jerusalem's Old holders of vast monopolies

em-heart 5 on the club A.

ruffed the Walled City early today as reactionary Interests in theployed for ruffing out a loser in hear Arabs in Delr Abu Tor village United States."

the hearts to thereby put them in up the dummy's heart 8, led the

and Jown in the Yemen Moshe The British delegate, Ernest shape for the discard of the un-spade 7 to the K. discarded his quarter of

Jerusalem renewed) Jay demanded that the speech be wanted diamond. It can all be losing diamond 7 on the thirteenth their daily gun battle.

Irrelevant. expunged

He quite systematic, almost sym- heart and had nothing left in his Two police armoured cars in described it as an "insult to the metrical.

own hand except good trumps. the area were fired on, the police Committee" and said it was ob said. There were no reports of casualties.

Armed Arabs ralded the Bim section of the Palestine Govern- ment's Information Office in the the

vious that "some countries came to the conference to avoid any attempt to get down to the de- tailed methods told before

the s963 conference."

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The resolution was in the form of an amendment to a United

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assuring freedom of in- North principles formation which was submitted 1-NT--Pass 2 S last week.

Pass The Soviet drift is almost ber- R. J. Reynolds, of the San 10 6 43 tain to be rejected by a majority tanoni at Saranac Lake, Now HKQJZ

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