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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948.
BRITAIN'S BIGGEST TANKS POURING INTO PALESTINE An Eye-Witness Story
Convoy Drama
By A Special Correspondent
Cairo, May 2:
A regiment of giant British tanks mounting heavy
cannon is on its way from the Suez Canal Zone. to embattled Jorusalem,
saw 34-tori Comets of the 4th Royal Tank Regi- ment rumbling in long convoys across Sinal Desert toward Palestine on Saturday afternoon during the last lap of a harrowing motor trip from the Holy City.
I counted more than 20 of the monsters armed with 77 mm cannon before losing iraek of them.
Supporting supply and com- munications vehicles formed additional-impressive, convoy
Those big tanka, more formidable than any weapons of the Jew or Arab in Palosting or of the neighbouring Arab armies, were scheduled to bivouac in southern Palestine on Saturday night and to reach Jerusalem today.
One junior officer told me that "their inlssion was te protect the evacuation of British personnel from the Holy Land where Bet- lish and Arab vehicles with which I was travelling on Satur- day were shot up by Jews.
.
"I think we are going to show them we
mean busİncis" Bold o Tommy.
The 4th Royal Tank Regiment move into Palestine follows the apring on Thursday of the Jewish offensive" to take the strategie Jerusalem? residential
riistrict-of-Katamon.
on
Bullets cracked off the rocks around our car. We tumbled out the and threw aurselves flat in ditch as fast as possible.
Tommies and Mauritian sol- diers fired back with two Bren guns and rines. Their artis were too tight to make any im- pression on the men behind the stone wall
what to do.
Of Fourth Fire
American Mystery In
“Manoeuvrés''
Triasts, May 2.
·City' of-
American forces were hold- Ing manoeuvros today' In the hilla adjoining the frontier -bofwpen--the-Free-
Triests and Yugoslavia..
Ameriban tanke. and arm- oured care were drawn up In alde roads and machine-gun posta guarded the ronde Bentries were watching MTE points along the border.
A particularly sharp watch was planned after dark to- night-Reuter.
SevenWeeks
Melbourne, May-2 Police and fire experts to-| [day opened an investigation into a fire last night on board the 7,400-ton British freight- | er, Pemba-the fourth mys- terious fire in the ship in seven weeks.
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************ caught fire, also at Melbourne. Hongkong
throw two pound shells Ints the settlement.
+
The last time the Pemba
the police said they suspected saboteurs of trying to sink. Arab Legion riflemen dropped her. The new outbreak was into the ditch beside us and confined to the ship's No. 5 blazed away. In a few minutes hold, among wool and general; the Jewish positions became cargo, and was under control Under. Are, soldiers manned a silent. While the armoured cars in an hour. wrecker and tried to salvage the kept the settlement covered the Two (uns of cheese and most smashed truck, We lay for o wrecker that came with them long time beneath the road's pulled our car out of the ditch of the flour cargo was ruined by
fire and water. shoulder, trying to figure out and the convoy began sorting it- The removal of the cargo
self out.
started tonight, The captain Far
I walked up the hill and met said no official report was pos- away, at the head of the convoy, Corporal Bennett made Lt. Herbert. He said he had ible-till-this-had-been-rum-
dash
with an
Arab driver lost one
out of am-pleted. man, was for the stalled bus. They munition and had some of his Most of the Pemba's cargo was hoped to drive it to safely on trucks shot up. He would have destroyed in the previous blaze. the other side of the hilltop. to turn around and go back.
The first two fires were also at Second Lt. Derek Herbert of Grim-Faced Tommies
Australian porte-one at Mel- Hillingdon, Middlesex, said some
Grim-faced Tommies told me bourne, the other at Sydney. passengers were believed to be
something about dead Corporal) The ship is owned by the Bri- still in the vehicles. I heard two
Bennett, They knew him os tish India Steam Navigation loud heavy thuds, distinguished Yorkie, and thought he was from Company and manned by
12 from previous rillecracks.
some place around York, but Europeans and 80 Indians. Her maybe it was Birmingham.
ran is between Australia, India "They're using mortars" yelled was an old soldier, they said. He and East Africo _a_soldier-A-second-mortar shelf | had gone through World
War
The 7,000-ton Chyebassa, own-
A
Mortar Shells
חגרי He f
Life Gunds poking out of the I found two holes in the ground turret of two, the red and white eight or ten feet apart. Bennett's checked khafa of Transjordan's beret lay nearby. I ran back Arab Legion.
down the length of the convoy trying to learn his first name and home town. Our car began to move and we had to climb
up.
Senator In
Fighting
got Bennett. Only a few minutes II with the 8th Army only to be led by the same company, has Inter help came. Four armour-killed in Palestine.
been twice ablaze since she dock- British Warning ed cars rolled majestically down Bennett's body had been plek-ed at Melbourne three months The British Commissioner, the highway from the directioned up before I reached where he ago. Reuter. Gen Sir Alan Cunalagham, is of Bethlehem, black berels of died. understood to have advised the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem Friday that if the Jews did not stop attacking "Arab territory the British Army would be "Kemel Salalah, driver of the brought-
back
into Palestine In Just cur in our convoy, said that full force. Many British Army he had gone for help when the
nits
to @ghting started, and had found and give 11 .moved recently Tripoli, Libyn and other destina- the armoured cars in Bethlehem." As we passed. Bennett's cap
and the long announced They moved tions
through the was still lying there on the sate for the completion of
convey to the top of a hill ́on] ground beside a small Army's evacuation is August 15.
the far side of the valley, then mortar crater.-Associated Press. if ordered to Impose the truce which churchmen and United Nations officials have bean urging to protect the holy -places--the Tank Regiment: could probably put an end to large
scale military operations between the Arab and the Jews in Jerusalem.
it
the
the
. It is not likely, Mawever, that
could stop the intermittent.
sniping and bombing which
Bloody Mood
Anxious Conference On Palestine
Washington, May 2.
**
makes the Holy City a night-State Department officials-mot-in-conference-today-
maro
What effect the Regiment s presence will have on the Arab The
countries' announced intentions
to send regular ar
armies against the Zionists soon, la à matter for conjecture. Dr. Waller Eylan, spokesman
the Jewish Agency, conten-led Friday
for
on
that Britain was trying to create a solid Arab bloc under her con- trol, and that she would be happy to have. King Abdullah's Arab
Legion in control of hi5|
Pinned Down
to consider reports from strifo-torn Palestine. reported judgment of British military officials that the situation there is rapidly growing worse apparently is shared by American officials.
France In
Sounder Health
Birmingham, Alabama, May 2.
Senator Glen Taylor, 'Vice-Pre- sidential candidate of the Third
Party, today lett Birmingham and ita gaol with the promise to re- turn and ght the city's raco
the segregation law to
courts.
highest
Senator Taylor left by commer- ciol plane in the middle of the alternoon, less than 24 hours after He was booked on disorderly con duct-charges,—-
He claimed he was "man- handled" by the police when he attempted to enter
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Left Wing rally through the eng trance for negroes.
He was freed-under'a-US$100 bond within a few minutes after There is no immediate in- being Angerprinted and his trial. dication what was discussed, was set for Tuesday night in the but the plight of some 4,000 Recorder's Court-United Press. American citizens in Palestine
is assumed to have been one of the topica.
Pending a United Nations agreement on new measures to restore order in the Holy Land, American officials have been acting on these con- clusions:
1-The British will go through
to
linking British troops in Jordan and the Suez Canal Zone,
It' wan
Was the Arab Legionnaires and the British Army guarda In cannon-firing armoured cata who rescued the convoy of Bri
Metz, May 2. tish trucks and Arab' vehicles |
Premier Robert Schuman loaded with men, women children from a Jawlah ambush is cured of one
and today proclaimed that, France with their announced plans
give up responsibility for order of its worse in Palestine two weeks hence. on Saturday morning.
diseases in modern history- 2. The reported dispatch of the virus of confusion and new British forces from Egypt, scepticism.
Cyprus and Malta is to safeguard of British troops Before they shelled the Jewish Speaking before the depart-the withdrawal of Bri attackers into silence, however, ment congress of his Middle-of- already on the scene.
the-road Catholic MRP Party, 3. After the convey had been pinned down
it not before, May 15, if under fire for more than two the Premier declared, "When the Holy Land faces prospects
Into
the premier's re- of bloodshed on an ev hours and Corporal Bennett of moved No. 1 Company, Royal Army sidence there was snow on the tragic scale than at present. | Service Corps, had been blown- ground. I never expected to see Only a truce agreement carried
to places by a mortar
the first leaves of spring front out by Jews and Arabs or a decision by London to extend The Arab-driven car in which these same windows.
"When
to I was riding in the middle of
power the British mandate beyond May convoy, with Charles Thelford, scepticism and lack of confidence 1 give hops of avoiding these the American former news officer of the Pales of the people and nation hound- developments, in tine Government and, two-Pales ed me. The situation called for official view. tinian Arabs, started out alone swift
action or and from Jerusalem for Cairo at 7.00 we would lose everything. a.m. on Saturday morning.
"I feared that I would not and of the necessary conviction in my
Α
Bethlehe
shell.
I
came
unpopular
even moru
New Shift
a
Meanwhile, in New York miles south
strong belief prevailed among ត shepherd boy fellow workers, but I did." United Nations delegates that, the "waved"and"shouted frantically Schuqian continued: "Our U.S. is about to shift its Pales- na dur car passed. We stopped moves were not always the best tine polley again. If any such and waited.
but the willingness of the move is planned however, it is u
A truck filled with armed French people has been the closely guarded secret. The U.S.
Arabs appeared from the direc- cause
tion
of the death of
that
of Bethlehem and proceeded strange virus, lack of confidence. along.
That confidence has 'now been
A British truck convoy in Justified by the Marshall Plan." which an Arab bus contraining-United Press.
many women had already taken
refuge, arrived a few minutes
later and our waiting cars swung Democracy
_in_between_the tnisks.
Slowly we cropt around The
last intervening hill-and-Inio-the- In-China
wide valley which Kfer com-}} mands.
Shanghal, May 3.
delegation continue to deny any change is contemplated.
No delegate claimed "any de- finite Information on US plans, but several said they had no doubt that a now American formula would ba brought forward within the wook.
A typical comment came from "n"""delegation, spokesman-wno- sold it was dimeult to see how the US could continue - much Several Democratic Socialist longer to support the plan for a On the exposed hillside acrous Party members have recently
Palestine trusteeship Associated this valley Arab Tiflemen were joined running and crouching among governments throughout the coun-
re-organised Provincial Press.
try, according to Chiness press reports today,
the rocks.
A -Jowish· Attack
Such provinces as Fuklen, An-
SPAATZ IN U.K.
London, May 2.
The Jews walted until the cons havel and Kiangat are said to have General Carl Spaalz, the Unit- voy was well spread before them, coalition governments, following ed States Chief of Staff for the then, they opened fire from be- re-organisation, with a view to Air Forces and former "com- bind a stone, wall, que says includlog non-Kuomintang om- mander of the American Eighth The Arab bus stopped and clale po as to keep in line with Air Force arrived in London to- most of its passengers Jumped the principle of the now conall-day by air from the United out and ran to shøller igra tution, thats
States. roadelda. ditch away from ♪ the]: The Democratic Socialist Party The General will spend a few
General ambuth. One truck stoppad is also expected to be represented days in Britain before leaving (and, turohad - Waolewaed: against when a new Central: Government for Germany, where ha la to in-
another putting it out of.com is formed with a broadened, base, spect the United States forces *misalon.
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