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GUNMEN KIDNAP BRITISH French Reinforcements
ARMY OFFICER FROM HOTEL
MAJOR FLOGGED IN RETALIATION FOR YOUTH'S BIRCHING
TWO NCO'S EACH RECEIVE EIGHTEEN STROKES
Jerusalem, Dec, 29.
Jewish gunmen to-night kidnapped a British Army officer from the Metropole Hotel in Nathanya, midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa..
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Earlier to-day the Irgun Zvai -Leumi had announced in pamphlets distributed in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv that
a British Army officer would he flogged in retaliation for the flogging of one of its "Bghters."
The fighter was named in the |
pamphlets as Benjamin Yossef SUSPECT DIES IN ROME
Rome, Dre, 29.
One of the Jews being held by the
Kimchin, sentenced on Decem- ber 11, to 18 strokes of the birch and 18 years' imprison-Italian police for the bomb attempt ment for his part in the Jaffa at the British Embassy, died yester bank robbery on September 13. day from wounds received when shot
Kimchia, who is 10 years of age, trying to escape, wan' told at the trial: "You are lucky your
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FOUGHT GALLANTLY-HMS LIwo, 170 ft former Yangtze steamer belonging to the Indo-China Steam Navigation. Co., Ltd., which sank in the Banka Strait after gallant
action against Japenose ships in February 1942. The late Lieut. T. Wilkinsan, who was in command of the ship, has been post- humously awarded the Victoria Cross; white another officer, Sub-Lieut R. G. Stanton, at present Chief Officer of the .. Wingsang, has been awarded the DAO.
AMERICANS
ACCUSE
RUSSIA
Washington, Dec. 20. The House of Representatives Com- mittee on Post-War Economie Plan- ning and Policy to-night urged the State Department to exercise- tho maximum pressure to dissuade Bri tan, Sweden, Switzerland and Franco from supplying Russia with Imple
unts of industrial
developatent inents "Chat can only be deleterious to the interests of a securs and peaceful world under the present Rusalan po- licten."
The Committee, In its report to the Houre, unanimously necused Russin of "failure to keep the Potsdam and
DIXIE TIGHE'S Twenty-Seven other agreements.
FIGHT
TO LIVE
Tokyo, Dec. 29. Miss Dixie Tighe, New York Post correspondent, continued her fight to live as medical officers of the 49th General Hospital sald she was "hold- The Jew, whose name was given as ing her own." They added, however, ngo provents your beink Epstein, received & cord
in an that there was little improvement. sentenced to death." He was charged UNRRA-marked package, according
The wide known European and with discharging a firearm and with to a tome newspaper. He tried to Asiatle war correspondent was still offences punishable by death under guard Bred two shots, mortally cerebral haemorrhage. United Press..
Paleting Emergency Defence wounding him. According to the Regulation
nowspaper he was escaping in the
Thousand
Germans For Trial
For Indo-China Report
Paris, Dec. 29.*
French sailors and air men of the aircraft carriers Bearn, Colossus and Dismude, as well as of the light cruisers Fantasque and Trio mphant, who are now on leave, have been recalled to their base at Toulon, ac- cording to the newspaper Paris Combat.
The paper links this informa-
tion with the report that a
formation of French warships is EVACUATION OF
on the eve of sailing to Indo- China.
was recently loaned by the Admiralty to the French Navy-Reuter.
The aircraft càrrler Colossus
French sources in London to-night hinted that more and larger rein- forcements, including probably part of the French Mediterranean Fleet, will be sent to Indo-China the next few days, adde Central News.
Gen. Leclero's. Mission
within
Paris, Dec. 29. The French Government, obvious ly worried by the situation in Inde China, to-day learned of the arrival at Saigon of its third high-ranking investigator this week, Gen. Jacques
Leclerc,
ITALY
FORECAST
Rome, Dec. 29. The complete evacuation of Italy by British and United States Forces during 1947 was forecast by General Sir William D. Morgan, Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre, in his New Year's Message to all the Allied Forces in Italy, to-day.
...an
“During 1047 we confidently expect and hope that Italy will be completely Leclere flew into Salgon airport on evacuated by British and American Saturday niternoon several days alter forces," General Morgan zaid. "Sinc the arrival of the French Minister the end of hostilities it has been
to
Allied of the Colonies, Marius Moulet, and necessary
retain
Indo-Chins of the High nearly one week after the return to garrison in Italy until the United Commis- Nations could settle the conditions of
the sioner, Admiral Thierry d'Argenneu. pence treaties,
Tanciere's A communique Issued by Chief of Staff snortly niter the desning lender of the
of the French armoured
rmoured divi- sion during the war stepped from
that
The report declared that the most serious of all violations of the Pots- dam Agreement was the alleged German rearming of Russia by plants in
tho Itusalan-controlled 'zonts, including the rocket-making and testing-grounds at Peenemunde, which were to have been scrapped.
"If this allegation is established as a fact by the joint inspection teams which have been agreed to but not permitted to operate in the Russian zones, this act would call for a re- twin-engined converted pomber, nunciation Agreement.
of the entire Potsdam
"The Western Allies would have
repeated a fact already known, Leclerc was In Indo-China "on a tomary mission
Berlin, Dec. 29. The trial of about 27,000 Germans, how held in civil in- ternment in the British zone every just ground for a demand on Indo-China, various
Inspection. ontinued to gather Moutel continued news of the tense situation in north
Viet Namh forces
anlawful possession of firearms, both lower himself from a winilow but the unconscious after being stricken with of Germany, by Garman courts, | Russia to evacute Germany completeived in Paris that ports were re“. Į
the
A later report stated that a British hope of reaching the sanctuary of the brigade major was brought back to Vatican.-Reuter.
the hotel after he had been flogged publicly.
According
to the Palestine Broadcasting Service the motor receives 20 strokes with a leather strap.
Later this evening it was officially stated that two other British soldiers -NCOs were picked up by Irgun, Zvai Leumi members and taken to the Zoo Gardens and each given 18 strokes. They were later released.— Reuter,
Tlod-To-Rack -
Assocluted Press adds
the major
was whisked
that
ZIONIST EXECUTIVE
London, Dec. 20..
A new Zionist Executive, consist- Ing of 19 members and representing the coalition of the three major Zionist parties, was elected by 77- member Zionist General Council at its final session in Basle last night, the Swiss radio reported to-lay.
Burmese Mission
Ready For London Visit
Rangoon, Dec. 29. Preparations are well advanced for The seat of President of the World the departure enrly in January of Zionist Organisation-Jaal held by Dr the Burmese ministerial mission to Chaim Weizmann-remains vacant, London. the radio added.
in
Will start at the end of January. ly," the report states-Reutor.
They are former members of or- Kunisations declared criminal by the Nuremberg Wor"
Crimes Tribunal the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, the Gestapo, Securl- ty Police and SS.
Among them are a few women. The future of thousands of other members of these organisations awaiting reparation in Britain o elsewhere or at least in the British zore, is under consideration.
Special rules of procedure how being drafted by the German Central Legal Onice, which is responsible for the trials.
Dre
Russia Proposes
·Disarmament
Scheme
in and around Nambo, in suthern Indo-China, were being prepared for future
attacks on French
positions. The
reports from Indo-Chint differ as to what Instructions have been Given these Viet Namh sympathisers: to figh now or to wall until after Moutet leaves for Paris.
Newspaper comments in Paris have been the bitterest since the Indo-
Chinese fighting flared up 10 days ago. The majority of French poli- tical commentators and
columnists
"It has been a diffutt perlock requiring goodwill and patience on both sides. Now that's our task is nearly completed, I trust that, this spirit will be maintained.
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"We have no other wish than to leave Italy as soon as duty permits, so that the Italiana nay freely work out their own destiny.”—Reuter.
Albanian Reply
On Corfu Mines Incident
London, Dec. 29. The diplomatic correspondent of have pointed out, that unless France the Sunday Timen to-day norted that Lake Success. New York. Dec. 20. smts
smashes the Viet Namh uprising the the contents of the recent Albanian Il is estimated that between 100
Soviet Russin has proposed that a
Whole French empire is likely to go reply to the British note cancerning and 130 German tribunals will be complete disarmament scheme, in- by the board.
the Corfu Channel mines incident required to dispose of all the cases cluding details of International con- Writing in the evening newspaper, were by the end of next year.
ronly craded The article sald ̈thiä raply! Tribunais will have the deadly weapons, be drawn up within columnist, "Ferlinex" said Franco
must be prepared to throw sufficient the British demands for reparations to imposa a maximum sentence, three months. Power!
years imprisonment 'and In a letter to the United Nations military and economic weight behind by evading responsibility, alleging her troops in Indo-China lose the mines must have been laid by some confiscation of
of properly.
Secretary-General. Dr Trygve Je,
third party. The trials will be open to the the Soviet, representative to the everything.
Informed sources throughout Paris some German public and will be held in Security Council, M. Andret Gromy- he nearest towns, where law courts to, submitted this resolution for the are available, to the six camps in, Security Council's meeting on Tues- which the internees are held.
day.
---tro]-of-the-atom - bomb -- and--- other -France-Solr, the famed political foot known to be "entirely, unsatis-
all The delegations will include The now executive was holding its parties in the interim government away first meeting from his wife in the lounge of Hoic! Reuter.
Baste to-day with the exception of the Myachit
whose leader, former Premier Metropole in Nathanyu,
Saw, is in Calcutta for an operation. It is not known whether the Myochit Party will delegate other leader.Reuter.
40 mlies
Abrth of Tel Aviv. The official announcement said he was blind- folded, led to
rack and given a 20
stroke whipping.
Two sergeants taken from Arman Hotch
on the seafront of Tel Aviv were tied to trees in the garden and given 18 'strokes coch in the presence of a small group of on- Tooker held at bay by tommy
Funners.
The Tel Aviv kidnappers fed after the whippings, leaving the sergeants
tied to the trees.
The major, taken from the hotel
Anglo-Soviet
Military Staff Talks
London, Dec. 29. Marahul S'olin will make an offer) in a motor car by five menned to Field-Marshal Viscount Mont- with machine-guns, limped back a gomery, Chief of the Imperial Gent bour Inter clad only in underwear.
latter visits Police
said that on anonymous ral Staff-when the telephone call to the Hebrew language, Morrow in the New Year for the
* holding of regulur
ary
of a
US Navy's Part
In Shanghai Rescue Work
The
of ten
Over Hundred Courts
The resolution calls for the A British spokesman said to-night
Immediately of that the number of courts might be establishment as high as 100. It was hoped, he special commission of the Council to or said, to finish this series of trinis by proceed with the Implementation the end of 1947, but the 27,003 were practical measures according to the only a quarter of the people lable General Assembly's recently approved be charged by virtue of their disarmament plan and to prepare membership of convicted organisa- and within a period of "trom one Hons. The whole operation is being to two months, but not
fater than handed over to the Germans, with three months," proposals in accor- Herr Karl Meyer of Oldenburg, a dance with that plan. barrister, who was one of Hitler's The new Soviet motion is inter- Shanghai, Dec. 20.
Jewish victims, ду Inspector-preted in informed circles here as Commending the US Navy ground General.
further Bussian attempt to seize Each court will have a chairman the Initiative in pushing forward control approach for the part they a played in saving one aircraft on the with legal qualifications, who will be early disarmament—iteuser. ground Irgun Zval Lawni was joint Chiefs of Staff responsible for the floggings.
declares the Diplomatic MacDonald, of CNAC, announced, the expense of the German tax- Correspondent of the London "Peo-to-day that there was no criticism pay camp will have a legal ad- ple" la to-day's lasue of that paper. against the US Navy GCA Kinngwan
The writer says that stuff talks facill les in the recent triple crashes terces who are lawyers can help and a staff committee ure to be "the in this elty. general framework of a 20 years Additional facts concerning
tried part of friendship between Britain air crashes on Christmas night show one day may have been the legal
the their defence. Thus, a man and the Soviet, signed in London that the fullest support of the US adviser to another the day before, during, the war."-Reuter.
Navy was extended in the einer though he will not be allowed to gency. Brought to the alert by the appear as counsel in court.. Klangwan tower to execute the sea
Former members of the Nazi party rescue plan, the US Navy had two picket preke
turboat are barred as defence counsels. vessels and one
the Wangpon
River searching
To get the best out of the thou- 15 minutes of the disasters. The search, under the direction of sand German civil servanta working Lt-Comdr H. S. Noon, of the Fleet on the trials, alt are to be given the
at the ordinary sedentary worker.
newspaper said, the Jewish Under-1 Staff talks and the 10mitice in night of December 23, Chief Pilo; paid the salary of a district judge at
More Immigrants-Bail
Cyrenia, Cyprus, Dec. 20, Seven hundred and fifty Jewish Hlegal Immigrants from the Carrelos sailed for camps near Famagusta, Palestine to-day on the British sloamer Ocean Vigour-Reuter,
French Police Break Up
Falangist Spy Network
-Paris, Dec. 20. French police reported, on Saturday the breakun of a Spanish Falangist spy network in southern France, which, they said, was compiling information on the numerous Spanish Republican refugees north of the border.
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bureau.
where the
vice
their fellow Internees lo prepare
or
are agreed that France must inereuse the number of fighting, men in the Indo-Chinese campaign if she wants (Continued on Page 4)
The reply also charged the British Government with sending warships into the Channel with the "evil-in- the sibanian tent" to intimidate people, the paper sald.-United Press,
Russia And France Blamed
For Germany's Lack Of Unity
Washington, Dec. 29.
The House of Representative Special Committee on postwar economic policy and planning to-day blamed Russia and France for failure to get economic unification. of Germany, and said the Soviet Union retarded re- covery in Eastern Europe.
JAPANESE “WOLF
OF CHANGSOU". for new. Congressional investiga-thom with United States honey of
· FACES TRIAL
The Committee also issued economies in ex-enemy countries for of supporting an eight-point recommendation the present method
which they In hun were being tions.
drained by Russia and France: Es views came out in ita-progresa Secondly, a study of the elimination report on the cecnomte reconstruction of the export of United States "kno of Europe. The Commitice said the how and Anished products which United States must take the lead "in could be useful in the development Shanghai, Dec. 29. *
of reconstruction of nomle weapons; and a positive polley Harochi Yonamura, Japanese gen and cannot rest content with merely Thirdly, a study of the nature of darmerie chief of Changsou, know as occupying its present zones and dis the employment of gold reserves by the "Weif of Changsou," was 'nr-
relief." tributing
countries which were not members of raigned for trial to-day before a mill-
been carried out. If judice the operation of gold us the tary court for the alleged murder of
exchango highest scale of rations-double those 123 Chinese underground worker of ent could had the Potsdam agree the Bank or Fund "which may
and Changsoa. Talchong and
been paasible after the German Tho Because the rest of the man The accused, wha ruled supreme in Occupation. But added that economie the night unul 3 am. on December Civil Service will have so much Changsou during the war, was reports unification was impossible because of int
surplus Verrels should be ekira work in view of the drain oned to have struck terror Into the various reasons, including the "re-made available to Russia er its sa their ranks, they are having their hearts of the inhabitants in the disfusal of Russia France" to park tellites until outstanding failures to Irations Increased by a third, •
cipate.
Air Wing 1 with headquarters at Klangwan, was conducted throughout
20 United Fress.
· POLES › WANT · PEACE TREATY SIGNED IN WARSAW
London, Dec. 29. Moscow Radio broadcast a report this morning that the Foilsh Govern- ment had decided to propose to the Council of Foreign Ministers that
Five persona wero arrested in to the Spanish side for lack of
evidence to three different spots along the coast, sufficient
warrant then released on parole. Two of pressing charges, according to dis- these, a French woman from Saint patches to French newspapers.
Two of the five persons originally Jean de Luz, and a Basque, youth were reniTested on Saturday and arrested, the French News Agency kaken to Toulouse for trial by said, were former officers of the the peace treaty with Germany ralillary authorities, the police said. Spanish Republican mingled with can
Sponlar my
who should be signed in Warsaw. here to The proposal, is based on the con-
The group, according to French sound out their opinions and neu-viction that since the German wor authorities, operated under three
ViUrs. Tho French woman arrested began on Polish territory, the sign- Spanish officers with headquartets at Saint Jean de Luz, police said, ing of the fronty in Warsaw would In Iran, Spanish frontier town, operated a bar which the group used have a "great symbolic, moral, and The three officers were reported to as a rendezvous, and the hemelt political signincance for future have been apprehended two days ago served as its "mall box,Associated generations, the report added
Central News. on French soll, and conducted back Press.
trict.
The reperi sald
"'real had
of
Co-operation" from the All'es med ommended
and
Europa
nd lease
80, of
keep her agreements for the return To ensure the speedlest possible The "Lone Wolf” Blarted in 1943 Russin's political and economic or purchaso vessels under wartime justice, British experts are examinas a petty officer and was quickly policies "have retarded the recovery
It Ing the German legn! codo with the promoted to the post of gendarmerio of all Eastern Europe, and threatened
suggested the also mi alm of making changes which will chief, owing to his reld persecution to run the economie line as well as "Foreign Affairs Committee recom simplify procedure.--Reuter:
mend the State Department to grant of underground workers. Numerous the political frontier across
Trieste. to were named in from Stettin cases of atrocities which the accused handled human clear, that there are many beings like beasts and many of his under the control of Russia in States on a strictly, reciprocal basis
rode whore victims died from the atrocities- Eastern Europe
'freedom to for the number of United States:d rent of the world plonintle agent to be United Press.
rade with the
or others accredited, affects their own ability to fulf the ke the Press, t admitted agreements of Yalta and Potsdam, Russla and choose their own governmenta
FLIGHT FROM HK.
TO DAUGHTER'S BEDSIDE IN UK
Birmingham, Dec. 20.
Second Engineer William Longwin arrived to learn that she had im- proved and was out of danger.
It is also viens and entry, passports for the ad- mission of Russians into the United
untries;
The Committee suggested that the Liquiries Recommended ramo principio be applied to protect The Committee recommended Con- the entry of U.S. citizens into Russian After flag. 13,000 miles from The cost of his air passage wasgressional inquiries on, firstly, review contraffed zones of Europe by con Hongkong to see his daughter Rose-paid by his employers, the Indo-df the annneinl aspects of the U.S. trolling the entry of Russians and mary, four months old, who was China Steam Navigation Company, necuention policy in order to sub their agenta into zones occupied by dangerously with meningitis, -Reuter
stitute productive and self-supporting the United States United Press.
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