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EGYPTIANS NEAR TEL AVIV City Again Blasted By Arab Bombers

Reprisal Raids Jews Hard-Pressed Soviet

Warning

Tel-Aviv, May 17."

The "Voice of Taradi", the newly formed broadcasting station of larael, today warn ed Egypt and other Arab

states, now invading Palca. tine, that they would be at. tacked from the ale.

broadcast, The

made in Arabic, said: "Air attacks on Arab citter wiit come".- Aleuter.

Nathan Rd. Armed Robbery

Three robbers. two armed with revolvers and one with a hammer. chose the best- lighted and mast erowded of Nathan Rond, for a part raid about 9 p.m. last night.

The Cheung Hng (Tung Kee) |

on

- fix gokt

In Other Parts

Cairo, May 17.

The Arab Higher Executive Committee said today Egyptian troops have driven within 30 miles

of Tel-Aviv after an advance of at least 34 milos into Palestine,

The office said also the Jewish Agency has au- thorised the surrender of Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem to the Arab Volunteer Com- mand.

•

said the

And Klein Mystery

Lieutenant Dratvin, the

Mura.

safety

Q1

Berlin, May 10.

General Mihail Soviet Deputy Military Governor in Germany, announced here that Mr. Igor Klein, former liaison officer with the British Control Com- | mission in Berlin, hud placed"] himself volunturlty in the cus-) "Conditions af surrender", dullah of Transjordan

lody of the Soviet Kommanda provide that Jews give up station supplied two-thirits Jewish industry in Palestine.

Ten days ago, their arms, that men be con-

public Foreign Egyptian

Minister

Reclor sidered prisoners-of-war und

Alamed Khushaba Pasha said hiskers in the British

for Mr. Berlin began, a march that women and children be

Government has received no of Klein, whose engagement with the handed over to the Inter-

lol notification about recognition Control Commission had

born national Red Cross, it sald. of Israel. "When any such not terminated, when it became known

The office, quoting a communication reaches us, ite Egyptian

from the Middle East Broad-Government will base its reply as he had not arrived in Britain nor used the passage booked for on international law," he said. casting Stalion, said Syrian and

him from The Hook, of Holland. General Draivin made the dia-

oficial'y where. abouts in a latter requesting the British authorities to take delivery of Mr. Klein.-Router,

a troops have joined forces

that

on the Sumath area of the seth-Acre Near Capture closure of the

captured

crn tip of the Sea of Galflee. The town,

bry reported Syrians,

one-hait and is two miles Inside Palestine.

The Arabs claimed also to have power sintlon

Goldsmiths at 340 Nathan Rund, seized Rulenburg

The other side of Saigon!

nt the vofluence of the Yormak Street from the Majestic Theatre,

King Ab- Jordan River lost 23 gold chalis tweighing about 0.05 fuels) and bangles (4.5 tuels), with a intal value of approximately 54,500.

Two men, one with a revólver and the other with the haminer, who entered the shop just nx the 7.20 p.m. performance crowd was streaming out of the side exists. of the Majestie Thentre,

While the armed men held up

the Tokis

the shop,

of the

The Que

with the

the hammer smashed the

top

of

counter qu

glass grabbed the chains and bangles, A foki, Lee Chun-man, leaped over the counter into the street and raised the alarm. The thled man, who was keeping watch

Criteria

For UK

Recognition

London, May 17. The criteria which would outside the shop, firen a shot into Jewish State

govern recognition of the new by the British Government. were

announced ten by the Foreign Office spokes-

nun today.

The

air. According to the tokis, the whole robbery took under minutes.

comprising

and

chain, brooches pendants, to the total value of 41,270 Was also reported us having been stolen front 10 Triangular Street, first floor, be tween 10.10 p.m. and 10.50 p.m. Jast night.

•

They are: 1. Existence administration:

For the third straight day Tel-Aviv was bombed from the ale this morning as the army of new-born feruel claimed it. was near capture of the Arab city of Acre and oven Hau struck seven miles into enemy Lebanon.

Today's nir attack on

Incael's

capital efty came on top of two days of aerial raids that took at least 10 lives. The new raid ap- parently was aimed at the nort area which h

viously.

It

was believed that today's raid

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Charity Ball

Princess Margaret dancing with Lord Ogilvy, of the Scots Guards, when she at- tended a Charity Ball at the Dorchester in aid of King George V. Saltors' Fund.

Japs Plotted To Hide War Crimes

Tokyo, May 17.

been hit pre- Japanese Army and Navy officers conspired to conceal vicious war crimos from Allied inves- tigators, S.C.A.P.'s Australian war crimes section charged today.

vas made by only two planes one

of them a light or medium bomb-

er.

Jews Admission

Meanwhile, the Jews of Israel were under. hard pressure from the northeast and south.

It said one Army command ordered that "motters

of war crimes are a fight to the last against the Allied: forces." The plot was started within a few hours after the Japanese sur- ⚫ render.

The two-and-half year in-matter which must unavoidabli

the con- be sald on one's duties. vestigation to break spiracy

disclosed was Lleut-Colonel D.L.B.

idea.

Inurder one

.

Increased By Forty Per Cent

Shanghai, May 17.

Chino's currency was officially depreciated by 40% today when the Exchange Equalisation Committed raised its foreign exchango "open market" rates.

The new rates for United States dollars were CN$468,000 buying and CN$480,000 selling (the previous rates were CN$320,000 and CN$328,000 respectively).

Madam President Party

New York, May 17.

A new elernent has entered the American election arena--

an organisation called the "Madam

The new pound sterling rates were increased to CN$1,402,- 000 buying and CN$1,442,000 selling (the previous rates were CN$950,000 and CN$984,- 000 respectively).

_The_black-mucket-forpign-cur

rency and guia quotations to mained steady today and fälled to react to the latest upward re- vision

The curb rate for the United States dollar stood at around CN$1,100,000 while the price of Gold ber Wal quoted J CN$63,500,000 per ounce. Preventive measures - adopted

President's Party", by the city authorities Included advocating "a woman for pre-mic police squads at commodity the stationing of special econo-

|sident".-

aro

"Dwindling Fast" -

the

"Ching today said that

Thousands Wish To Emigrate

Canberra, May 17.

Two hundred and fifty thousand Britons, wishing to emigrate to Australia, applied: for

at Australia PROZAGRE House in London during the first four months of thin year. Mr. Arthur Calwell, Australian Minister for Ins migration, announced today,

He inid that although Australia had obtained near- ly half * million tone er shipping. for the British-- -Austrális-run, it—war” far

short of requirementa Reuter.

Elizabeth Attends

Paris Races

Paris, May 10, ·

In a statement hended "Wake and share trading centres. up Indies, women

the on

the march for a better world",

Meanwhile, organisation claimed a 10,000,000 | Economist" membership grid sald

Its China's foreign exchange reserve" Princess Elizabeth and the was "dwindling fast" owing to Duke of Edinburgh,watched the the "unraces at Longchamp this after- foreign

that

roal was 50,000,000 voters.

rate of

A public opinion survey, con- what it described ucted by the organisation, listed realistic Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of change." the late President, Mrs. Claire Booth Luce, dramatist

and wife

of publisher Henry Luce, and the Duchess

of Windsor us

among the women best qualified to run for President.

It promised a woman candidate In both the Republican and De- mocratic Parties, or "a party of our own"

the election

ileuter.

for

Typhoon

Heading

For Guam

盟

Informad

ex non from the Presidential box, woll Quoting

backed by a great bank of pink, sources, the weekly said: "Only White and blue hydrangeas, UB$10,000,000

The Princess, wearing in white la obtained by the Government through export lowered frock and a white hat only US$1,000,000 trimmed with white flowers, fof- lowed each event closely through overseas remittances

binoculars, but, did not bet. monthly.

The French police advised her China's imports, however, to not to go to look at the horses in quire at least US$15,000,000. One the paddock as had a Bret been of the most important reasons

trada

from

and

why the Government has found planned, and this deprived - the Whitsunday crowd of 'a gresi it impossible to obtain more for chance to see her at close view.

and why eign exchange

large guma, of, overseas remittancea have gone to the blackmarket is the unrealistic rate in foreign ex- change."

Laud cheers greeted the Princess the Duke as they stopped Into

end

..

their bax to be readived by Madame Vincent' Aurlol, the Pre- sident's wife,

The paper added that though

In the morning, the Royal couple "same change in the present for-

roa orly to attend a celebration eign exchange control policy of Holy Communion at the Angl=" long been overdus, no change is can. Church in the Rue. Daguer expected at present, when there

US MOVIES TO

BE MADE IN UK

Dutch B25 Crashes

Tokyo May 17.

Guam, May 17.

is talk of re-organising the Gov.seau, Just across from the British

Embassy in Paris-Reuter.. orment, following the assump 3-Matters of war crlines are a A typhoon by

was heading to-

tion of office by Generalíasino today Goalett, fight to the lust against the Al-ward Guam

and this Chiang Kai-shek as President and of Sydney, chief of the second lted

island was on the alert. forces,

General Li, Tsung-len as Vice- Australian war crimes section. this group planned

Gosleti declared members_of_The storm,-with-80-knot-winds President.-Reuter.-

at its centre, was reported some! The conspiracy stretched from of their interpreters believed s 75 miles to the southwest and the South Pacific into Japanese weak he might talk but Anally moving northeast. home islands, Goslett said, На charged many top Japanese of Arms and Navy headquarter Incoming traffic. Ships were leav

abandoned the

He said

Apra harbour was closed to cora still are stubbornly carrying

prepared false lists of Allied waring two and three at a time. The

A Netherlands East Indies B. New York, May 10. prisoners to show they me! death

Held at noon.

Eleven out of 20 pictures to be 25 Army transport crashed and by Allied bombings, disenso o Navy shut down its Agana air- ing statements.

aboard prison ships en route is. A search was ordered for 18 mnde overseas by American com-burned in a forced landing on a He said a glaring part of the Japan.

Yap islanders blown to ace yes panies within the next 12 months beach at Chirasaki yesterday."

All the 11 persons aboard es- the plot

order by the was an

He said

Japanese Flesterday It boats and rafts. Yop. will be made in Britain, studio

flamer caped before Rabout learned the

announcements kald Carolines, is about 200 press Japanese 18th Army headquar- headquarters at

the

plane, ters in New Guinea to set up that 32 persons, including 23 Ausmiles southwest of Guam.-Asso-day.

trailans and nine

These will have their earnings Dutch Army German misclated Press, the "committee for the com.

officers en route lonaries were strangled and their

frozen in Britain under tarms of from Batavia to Tokyo for tech cealment of war crimes,"

bodies thrown into the sea.

the tax agreement to finance nical conferences

This mission. come **from Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok in his first news conference Inst night. He said Jewish settlements of a functioning are being pressed by the Exyp:

ian Army In the southern desert 2. Clearly dedned frontiers; and by the frul Amy-in-th 3. A governing hudy in position northern Jordan valley. to accept international oblign- The Israelita army, Haganah tions and full them.

said in special bulletin the The spokesman-said the Cov-Acre is expected to surrender a crument is not satisfied that these any moment." three conditions are fulfilled t Hagano sald 31 Egyptians hout the plan to confuse me

been killed in a two-day battir He emphasised Britain is guided for Narim, southernmost Jewis gators with false and mislead

considerations in its settlement in the southern doser) Paris, May 18.

only by legal consider upperach the recognition ques-und 200 enemy soldiers had been Completely sobered and re- tion even if the British criteria of klled and wounded

at Mallky. pentnut, a French

student recognition low

are different from near the Jewish State's north- was released today after he was the American ones.

enstern border with Lebunan. caught by police trying to scale

(A Syrian Army communique The official request of the Israel

issues in Dumascus last night the said the volunteer Atab Libera- not yet renched British Foreign Office.

tion Army had recaptured Mallk- The student, apparently under

con- ya from the Jews.) In announcing the basic the Influence of, ulenhol whenditions for British recognition of caught, said he had hot some of Israel spokesman

the

TRIED TO SEE ELIZABETH

the present moment.

the wall of the British Embassy Government for British recogni-

where

Princess Elizabeth and ton has Prince Philip are staying.

denied Entered Lebanon

his friends he would be received there was any bios or prejudice

by

the

Press.

Princess. Associated in the British

consideration of such a step--United Press.

Step Against Violence

}

At Chamber Elections

Armed plainclothes police will be on hand to pre- vent or deal with any violenco that might break

Three-Point Policy

Was

Wos

Hailstones

In Luzon.

torrential

But it ordered that in. vestigators be told the 32 bad dlad aboard the versal Kowe hended by Major-

Maru when it was sunk by General Yoshihara, chief of Staff, It had this three-point policy.

Allied bombers off New Britain, of the number

Goslett said after 20 months 1-Minimiso

Manila, May" 17. victims and Japanese involved in persistent work the false story

Hailstones as big as dove's Aero, old crustiers' port 12 war crimes,

Rear- broken. Jupanese miles below the Lebanese "border.

2-Retrain absolutely from Admiral Ryukichi Tomurn was eggs are reported to have fallen is just north of the coastal strip talking about other Japanese convicted. for responsibility in the in tropical Central Luzon recent- carmarked for Palestine Jews in personnel sad in speaking about stranglings, and executed in Hongly, accompanied by the United Nations partition plan. oneself and limit statements to Kong-Associated Press,

Thousands of Arabs fled there from Halts; across the bay, when Halfa felf to Haganah a few weeks before Israel came into being lost Friday midnight. Ha- ganah claims La have reached Rabin Nasaurs on the froutier to the north by passing' Acre.

Haganal's Upper Galilee radio

JAP FIVE-YEAR PLAN

TO RESTORE ECONOMY

Tokyo, May 17.

out during the Hong Kong Chinese General station announced last night that The Japanese Government today announced Chamber of Commerce annual elections to- morrow, soureas close to the Chamber told the

| Litany River at a cost of one man

"China Mail" lost nights learned last night that wounded.

Ja striking (orce had gone · Haven

miles into Lebanon and destroy-{ ed a strategic bridge over the

The Army and the The Meanwhile, no date has yet been fixed for the seven dis the Hon. Mr. Leo d'Aimada, K.C., rald was in the Mer Uyun die aident committee Members Instructed by Messrs. Lo and triet. (who have issued a writto Lo, solicitor, has been briefed by

It

Haganah said the Egyptian in-Air Force had machine-gunned

prevent the elections) to state the Chamber to contest the British troops; wounding eight.

their case against the Cham Junction. ber for an injunction.

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Page Two

De-Communist

Pingchuan..

Pago Thres

Attack

in southern Palestino on Saturday,

Rellable, London

sources said

Fa-five-

year plan designed to restore the country's economy to prewar loval by 1952, plan which was prepared by the Economic Stabilization Board emphasised that Japan's recovery would be greatly dependent upon for- eign capital. This was especially important it was stated for the revival of major industries. Current inflation would have power supply; (2) imports of raw half of the flye-year period portation capacity-Reuter. without leaving effects menac- 1ng to cronomie: stability, the |Horument-recommended.

rains.

It happened In Tayug, - 125 miles northeast of Manila.

Children and housewives, mar- velling at the novel downpour, rushed out to collect the mORS- trous leo pellets in jars and tin cans.

Local farmers superstitiously Interpreted the event good omen, presaging-a beautiful har- vest and an early' 'rainfall this farming season. They also claim- ed that it indicated .an abuh- dance of tleh in creeks, swamps and rivers—Associated Press.

The Weather

4.

A work trough from à, depresion near

North China, and a

The seven opposing members last night.one. other, soldier. Was to be subdued in the ́ ́first [material; (3) ⋅ shorlaga, of, trans- North Bakhalin le moving RE

have engaged the services " of

Mr. H.G. Sheldḍa, KC., instruct-

ed by Mr. P.L. Lam.

The Chamber's 10-Man Elec..

tions Supervisory Committee is

killed.

Tiberias Raided

Japan's current crisis was not

On scheduled to meet at noon today Hagshall also reported enemy surface deep but "deeply rooted"

Foralan Buyara Ignorant

“of" HK Products. *Bun, Po. Elected - Yuan

Proaldent.

„Forlós) Baok_Franogi

Page: Sever

Wallets

From: Ride.

Hine

Réspontes

to discuss and complete arrange air attacks on Tiberian and severin.. the crash of the national ments for the election of a new al nearby Jewish settlementa General Commuffled tomorrow. along the Sea of Galileo in north the work

Members of the Chamber and fern Palestine, with some casual- pressmen will not be permitted {ties,

HUNGER-STRIKE AGREEMENT

weak anti-eyeform over: "N.W. China. In intanalfying slightly and alay moving 8.2.

· The depresstun south of Tokyo · fa"-sta | Honery__and_filling An, Tha.....troplani depression at 0800 : hours... GMT):43 j.ma. | Hong, Koog, Bommer Titse) - waa' centre '"about" 185 mlina N.. at:10, knota,

Today's | Forazzat ----Modernle Esst winda. Fair.

10: 2140 mm=11,65 far, sa against au amruge job: 4414-rum.as 17,8), Ins?

Mag,HUN Mendinsan...ntĮ

economy

arising from the loss of

mtenble agreement has An

Yesterday's Weathercial thi mua nhà đều Ti The plan contemplates the been reached between stabilization of the economy hunger striking editorial staff Minimum 1.7 dem Fabe 16 enter the Chamber premises From Natanya, Jewish coastal when (1) the people can liva.on of Canton's Yuet Wah Po and maintain Tynon

Shunshine t`.8.6 hours. en either of the two days unless city north of Tel-Aviv, came a reasonable standard of living the owners, according to mess× they produce identification cards report that, Jews had: besten off tres from, wants of daily necci- ages from Canton yesterday.

LOGIN nn. Arab attack on Geulim vilties; (2) the nation's exporis. A new scale of wages with at the door

„üllaga min faraallis: tereltery dise Aeroportct the "gunday

A report dreutated in Halin unclent to pay-for-import high cost of living allowances has ar Hérald" the seven dat that the Transjordan Asali lagien.

Alabour, encioney fand produce been Introduced to the satisfaċ- pt, Equat

tion-af

Rel. Humidity. reporters and Dew Poins According to a

the authors plant the population of proof-ronder staated/n:*21-hour wind," Direction) awian Japan, conservatively calmated, junger strike at noon on Satur

Wind Faroe Increased salarios segg will have reached "approximately days sources said Jown 4 million by 1912.

啡

Committee members inplat.,; that hand blown-up the hydroaleatris tivity nro:notably, raised stakIATAN

the annual elections shall not be plant, at the iconfures of th Brudersta

the railleation

Yarmuke and

present General Committus, mitten

The Commnities, however, has ruled that, the matter, should be had evacuates inft tó: the new 5: Klensel":"Com-south sad of baltiem to be lectus tomostowar

akoniated

King Factors limiting the tempo of living.

foamy Krainomiau reconstitution XA new agreement was resched

thent.

to-

destroyed The plane carried a group of

with SCAP oficials, Variety leading film production

When the

lost contact pilot said "there are 27 different ways with Haneda airfield in bad wea- of American film companies get ther he decided to land on the ting their frozen money out of beach at Chigasaki. Chigasaki England and the British have is on. Sazami Bay three miles found a way of saying "no" to south

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