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VOL. II NO. 99

2,742 Berlin BRITISH

Suicides

Berlin, Jan. 27.

Berlin police records to day showed that 1,809 re- sidents had committed sui- cide during 1946, bringing the post-war total to 2,742. Sixty-five percent of the suicides were women, police

Officials said,

attributed

most of the self-slaying, to poor living conditions and food shortages.

"They could not live on a No. 5 (1,100 calories) ration card and proferred a quick death to slow starva- tion," one official said.- United Press.

Reaction To Air Disasters

London, Jan. 27. Romeling strongly to the two week-end air disasters, the British press to-day called for an immediate enquiry into use and loadings of Dakota craft.

the air-

for an In particular, they asked offelal statement on the load which

British-operated Dakotas

carry,

naked

should

The News Chronicle tenned the overloading

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1947.

JUDGE

WHILE IN

Partition

Plan

Rejected

London, Jan. 28. Dr Jamal Effendi Husseini, vice-chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Executive, on Monday rejected partition as a solution of the Palestine pro- blem and warned Britain that the creation of a Jewish state there would become "a per- source of trouble in manent the middle cast.'

Dr fusseini spoke to the Anglo- Arabian Palestine conference which resumed its sessions on Monday with one of the principal parties to settlement the Jews still absent.

Addressing 22 Arab and three Bri- tish deleitates in the conference room of St James Painee, Husseini claimed allen that establishment of "an Jewish state" would entail "the crea- tion of another Balkans in the Middle East" and that all Arabs would resist it "with all means at their disposal."

Husseint demanded that Socialist Britain should full the pledges the British government had given to the people of Palestine which, he said, guaranteed self-determination.

PARTITION="A MENACE”

a

"To the Arab world partition pre- Saying that British Dakota

are cents

a further nenace," Husseini allowed to take 3,000 pounds more sald. "The Arab world is a furri- lond than they were designed to total continuity inhabited by a homo- carry, the Daily Mail editorial to-day reneous population with one national

ald: "It must be

whether outlook. As such it is free from British civil aviation profitablé pay-serious friction and is a natural bul- lond is considered to be more im- wark for peace. The creation of an portant than the safety of passen allen Jewish state in Palestine means fers."

the destruction of that, territorial continuity and national homogeneity and the creation of a running sore of these planes as that will undoubtedly become a per- "national scandal" and emphasised that only last week the Scandinavian mangni source of trouble in the mid-

dle cast." countries had asked the British

Husseini called the Palestine Arab nuthorities not to overloud Dakotas

cuse simple and self evident, and ying from British pirfields.

said that I meant only hat the Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Ex- people desired to remain in "un press declared: "To ground all Da- kotas would disorganise and lerupt airline services. It la an extreme mensure that may yet have to be Press. discussed if disasters continue".

In general, newspapers called for what the Daily Mail aptly described as an International Plimsoli Line"

in the air-safety code, formulated and respected by all nations-Reuter,

An

PLANE EXPLODES

San Diego, Calif, Jan, 20,

Army jet-propelled PRO

disturbed possession of their country and to safeguard their natural existence and freedom. Associated

TRUMAN MADE THE DECISION

Boston, Jan. 20. President Harry S. Truman per- sonally made in wartime decision to

KIDNAPPED

COURT

Another Sensational Jerusalem Outrage

Jerusalem, Jan. 27.

Judge Windham, British District Court judge, was kidnapped by Jewish terrorists to-day, it was officially announced.

Ten armed Jows forced their way into the Dis- trict Court at Telaviv while a civil suit was in pro- gress and at gunpoint kidnapped Judge Windham, who is President of the District Court.

The kidnappers drove off in a block waloon car.

They addressed the Judge in He

brew and ordered him to come with them. The court was partially Alled at the lime, but there was no case

Judge Windham, who is nearly 4, had a distinguished record during in progress.

the Somaliland campaign during Judge Windhem was appointed tite war, when he was seconded to president of the courtroom on January the Government of British Somali-after several months of service as

relieving judge. land as Legal Secretary.

Eight of the ten armed Jews who were kidnapped Judge Windham sitting in the public gallery when the Judge took his sent on the bench. As the session opened, two other unmen entered from a side docr and rapped out the order: "Do not move or wo shoot".

The eight gummen sitting in the public gallery then approached the bench and at pistol point hustled the Judge into one of the cars-reported to have been stolen-waiting outside. The terrorists had previously cut all telephone wires outside the court.

According to

from a message

telephone u Jewish, girl Telaviv,

head

wound operator sustained a wille resisting. The whole kidnapping operation took less than one minute, scarding to eyewitnesses.

•

Several persons in the courtroom were held at gun point while the abduction took place, pollee sald.

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RESPITE FOR TERRORIST

Execution of Groner Postponed

Jerusalem, Jan. 28. Dov Bela Groner the Palestine terrorist sentenced to death for his part in an Irgun raid will not be hanged on Tuesday,

An indeterminato delay in his bang- ing was ordered on Monday night by General Sir Evelyn Barker, Palestine Commander,

A week ago he confirmed the sen- tence of death which a military court had passed on Groner.

It was learned offcially that the respite was granted to Grouer when n Palestine lawyer set in motion the machinery for an appeal. He had been briefed, it was learned reliably. by Groner's sister, Mrs Helen Fried- man of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

Later, General Barker ordered a curfew, effective in the whole of Tel- aviv, the Jewish quarters of Jeru- salem, Haifa and on all highways In Palestine.

Justice Windham, still in his black

The dramatic developments in the Judicial robe and white

wig. was taken from the building by a rear Groner case came after the kidnap- opening to Lilienblumping from his court on Monday of Mr entrance

Police said it was believed Justice Ralph Windham, President of street. there were eight men and two women the Telaviv district court. in the gang which made the ab- duction, and that they were armed with both tommy guns and revolvers.

CANADA'S GESTURE

Repeal Of Chinese

Judge Windham is heir presump Immigration Act

tive to the English baronetcy Bowyer-Smith.-Reuter,

ABDUCTED AS HOSTAGE

Associated Press adds that

of

the i

As

The police believe that he was obducted for the same reason terrorists took former Major H. 1. Collins on Sunday night as a hostage for Groner.

VAIN SEARCH ́

In a vain search for Collins, the Jerusalem bank manager, who was kidnapped from his flat on Sunday night, troops combed the Jabrynthine stums of Jerusalem as the curfew fell on Monday night.

Stéelhelmetted and armed with rifle and bayonets, they entered shops and houses in the Jewish quar-

that ters. It was officially stated neither Collins nor any suspects had been found.

The soldiers taking part in the search

Ottawa, Canada, Jan, 28. Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced the Canadian police authorities said they were con- government intends to repeal the vinced that the kidnapping was car- Chinese immigration act which ried out for the same reason as Mon- has drastically limited the num- day night's abduction of Major Col- ber of Chinese allowed into Tight Infantry, lins-for use as a hostage for Dov Bela Gruner Jewish-terrorist-now Canada... under sentence of death.

tinofficial sources said that the 10 gangsters were well dressed and ap- parently arrived at the court building

in three taxis.

"Shooting Ster" fighter virtually. The president disclosed this in a Grace Moore

obliterated itself and its plot when letter to President Kari T. Compton,

it crashed and exploded in a field of Massachusetts Institute of Tech-

north of here.

Witnesnes said the plane caught hology, published in the February To Be Buried

afire in the air and the pilot, trying for an emergency landing, crashed. -Associated Press.

TAKE-OFF CRASH

Albuquerque,

New Mexico, Jan. 28. An Army B29 with 14 men aboard crashed

and

burned during takeoff from Kirkland Field and authorities expressed belief_all_were killed. The plane, burst into flames (Continned vn Poze 4)

EDITORIAL

Atlantic Monthly.

issue of the At

Commenting on Compton's article

atomic bomb saved "hun-

war

In America

Cannes, Jan. 27.

Immigrants . Held Up

San Francisco, Jan. 27,

Three hundred, children of Chinese American citizens are being held in special detention quarters at U.S. Immigration Head- quarters while officials do- termine whether they are eligible to enter the United States.

The District Oporation Officer, Mr Arthur Phelan, said the immigrants were detained because they lack- ed the necessary clearances from United States Consuls

Overseas

or husbands and fathers had to be located in order to check citizenship.

United Press.

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MOSLEM MOBS DEMONSTRATE

React To Arrests

New Delhi, Jan. 27. The arrest of Moslem League officials in Punjab State hus touched off widespread protest demonstrations.

Mobs twice aflacked the gool at Julundur, 80 miles east of Lahore, to free League officials held there. They dispersed when the pollee fired into the air. Six polloemen were injured during the dis

turbance.

At Lahore, eight. Moslems were freed from gaol after conferences by high Government officfuls. Stx of the

however, had to be eight, ejected from the gaol because they refused to leave unless all arrested Moslem were freed.

The eight Moslems, Including two women, immediately addressed a ban in defance of the meeting against gatherings. They dared the palice to rearreat them.

Other mass demonstrations were reported in Gujrat. Ferozepur and Ludhiana. The police made mass

-United Press.

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Breakdown In Treaty Parleys

EGYPT MAKES NEW DEMAND

London, Jan. 28. Foreign Secretary Bovin told the House of Commons on Mon- day that negotiations for a re- vision of the 1936 Anglo- Egyptian treaty bad broken down on the Egyptian demand for a permanent union with Sudan.

In a simultaneous announcement te the Chamber of Deputies in Cairo, Prime Minister Nokranbi Pasha Mold that Egypt's demands included the evacuation of British troops, and the hope of future negotiations in which "broader and less stubborn counsels world

prevall". He the

declared that in meantime the treaty will be, ad- hered to.

The trenty expired in 1948.

Mr Bevin disclosed he had offered to sign treaty of mutual assistance and protocol calling for the evacun- tion of the troops from Erypt.

BEVIN BITTER

to

In addition, he said, he had agreed start Reparate discussion of Egyptian demands for the Sudden at a conference attended also by the Sudanese.

To all these proposals, he declared, he had received "either an uncom- promising negative or proposals which would involve negotiations based on the theory that, whatever amount of self determination given the Sudanese, the Sudan must be joined with Egypt.

הפער

Mr Beyin said that he had even been accused of "pursuing a policy of endeavouring to Mich the Sudan from Egypt." Associated Press. "NATIONAL DEMANDS"

Cairo, Jan. 28, Premier Nokrashi Pasha told both Houses of Parliament on Monday: "It is ridiculous that anybody should claim that Egypt wants to dominate the Sudan. Egypt will work for the welfare and prosperity of the Sudanese.

were men of the Royal Irish Fusillers, arrests, charging the meetings illegal, through a most critical stage and to the Lincolnshire regiment, and the Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

areas

and

CROWDS DISPERSED

Ho asked the Egyptians and Swinnese to "mcrifice their com in- terests as the country Wor passing

Jain in the trustic for achieving their national demands."

After delivering this message

to the Chamber of Deputies the Prime Minister presented it to the Senate Associated Press:

BRITAIN ACCUSED

Calro, Jan. 28. Nour el Din Tarrat, a Nationalist deputy told the Egyptian Council of Ministers on Monday: "The Brush are our real enemies, we should fight them hard, not only in Egypt but in the whole world, before the Security Council of the United Nations and in every place.

Jullunder, Punjab, Jan. 27.” It was officially reported" on

night. that the High The police-fired seven-rounds to crowd which Mr King said a bili will be intro-Monday

Commissioner, General Sir Alan disperse a Moslem duced in the coming session of par- Cunningham had summoned Jewish threatened to attack the district gol Here yesterday and 23 arrests were Lament for the repeal of the act Agency leaders to government house

made, It was

to-day. announced conference and told them which, he said, was regarded by the for Chinese government "as an exclusion that

unless Judge

There were no casualties. Windham net and in the nature of discrimina and Collins were returned immediate- The Moslems were demonstrating Won on the grounds of race againstty, it would be necessary to "with-against the previous arrests of Mus-

friendly and allied people."

draw the civil administration from lems and against the Punjab Govern- placement's ban on the Moslem League's He added that the effect of the re- certain

under military control. National Guard organisation. peal would be to remove "all dis- them

Dr Elizer Kaplan and Mrs Golda Later, a party of velled Moslem

"It is no use co-operating or at- crimhuntion against the Chinese race,"

Meyerson

were present at tha women marched In mock funeral tempting to reach an understanding and to bring Chinese persons under

procession right up to the inner gate with the British because, they are the general provisions of the Immi- conference,

of the prison without pollee inter-imperialists. gration act, and no longer under le-

TELAVIV QUIET

ference.

The British are frightened by our glatation applying exclusively to per-

Several

other processions took taking the matter to the Security sons of Chinese origin.

should place, some Moslems carrying naked Council and our delegation

words and stoves in defiance of the tell the world that Britain occupled tortured the ban against carrying such weapons Egypt by force and

country."-Associated Press. Reuter.

that the dreds of thousands perhaps several millions of lives both Anseriean and

With repeal of the act, wives and Japanese" and shortened the

unmarried children living in China several months, Mr Truman wrote

Grace Moore's husband, Valentin will be allowed to join husbands and in the our statement

Atlantic Parera, before leaving for Copen- fathers in Canada. Heretofore they Monthly is fair analysis of the hagen to-day said that his wife's were barred.-Associated Press, situation except that the final de-body would be returned to New York cision had to be made by the Pre- for the funeral. sident and was made after a complete survey of the whole situation."-As-

sonated Pres

your

One-Sided Co-operation.

asi weck this column became emphatic about the need for the publis to co-operate with the police in dealing with law-breakers, potent- fal or actual. But la doing so, we did not bargain for non-o-operation on the part of the authorities. Two cases have come to light and H they are going to represent the future attitude of the police to this Com- question of a anlled front against lawessḥess, then, the "Police missioner's appeal for co-operation will become so much nonsense.

No more glaring example of deliberate indifference to his duties as a police officer could be found than that disclosed in yesterday's Central Magistracy prosecution in which a Commando lesilfied; that a police constable refused to arrest a 29an whom, the soldier, allered, had sold him a black market ticket for the King's Theatre. According to

to the Commando to the arresting

to do evidence, the constable curtly told the himself. Xie did no, and then found himself the object of hostile damonstration of Chinese hooligans. Incidentally, not a word was said in court about this constable's behaviour; nor was it migrested that the Commando was telling anything but the truth. We trust, however, that the Police Commissioner will not allow the matter to rest at that, Constables cannot be given the right to decide whether or not they will arrest a person when an accusailon has been made by a third party, The other case, smacking more of blase indifference than anything else, concerned the report of a house-breaking and robbery in Kowloon last week. The victims were Europeans and immediately they discovered the robbery at 7 o'clock in the morning they 'phoned the police" station. They were told to “iphone again later.". Half an hour later the wife reported in person to the station and was then told to walt ne the pollos officer was dressing. The police finally arrived at the barzled house about an hour and a half after the first telephoned report.

We do not suggest thin le typlent, but the fact that it can, and, does happen, soarsely, makes for public confidence in the appeal for: co- operation with the police. We suggest that the Police Commaissioner oirenlackso his staff with a pointedly-worded memo on the subject of police po-egoraidag with the public.

..

Mr Parera said he could not give the exnet date of the funeral. He told the United Press he had telephoned Copenhagen immediately when la learned of the crash and had spoken eye-witnesses-United 'to several Press.

PRINCE GUSTAV ADOLF

Copenhagen, Jun, 27.

Factories Hit By Coal Cuts

London, Jan. 27. Thousands of factories all over Britain will start short time work this week as a result of cuts in cun

The Swedish Crown Prince is due allocation.

was

An Associated Press Correspon- dent, Erie Gottgetreu, gathered from Telaviv that the whole city deathly quiet just after dark, except the Tumble o! "literally for hundreds of Bren gun carriers and armoured cars. A few troops were

walking about the streets. Meanwhile both police and mill- tary pressed the search for the kidnappers.

seen

Two Jews were detained for questioning during the day.

Legal circles in Jerusalem belleve that the appen), "even if unsuccess ful," may delay the execution Groner "for months."

ul

Asher Levitsky, a Russian born Jew who practised law for a number of years in the United Kingdom, was

have conferred reported to

a Jerusalem prison

Levitsky was reported by

to arrive in Copenhagen to-night to Most Industries dependent on steel Groner in supervise the transport to Sweden of¡ will be affected. Some Shefeld steel | Monday. the remains of his son, Princu Gus-works have started a four-day week. tav Adolf.

with on

1850-

The steel output is expected to clates to be convinced that the con- victed man should appeal to the The Identification of the dend went drop by a quarter million tons

month during the period of curtalled Privy Council, "despite Groner's on throughout the night.

recalcitrance and insistence on being The Darish Government has or-coal supplies.

Hundreds of cotton mills are also a martyr," It was pointed out that dered that flags be down at half- mast throughout the country this reported going over to short time such an appeal can only be made if work. Many are said to have Groner signs the authorisotion him- morning.

adopted a scheme a three-and-a-self-Associated Press. The Danish air authorities, to-day half-day week until coal deliveries prohibited the use of Danish airports Increase, by Dakota planes with a total weight | Further cuts in working time nwy exceeding 11,450 kilogramines at the have to be made In addition to those take-off and 11,080 llogrammes planned earlier as a result of delays weight at landing-Reuter.

in poal supplies due to transport difficulties, arising from the heavy snowfall.

LOADS REDUCED

HEAVY COST OF OCCUPATION

Washington, Jan. 24. The shortage of textile goods for President Truman to-day · asked Copenhagen, Jan. 27. home needs has reached a new Congress for a supplemental appro- Denmark clamped a lower limit on climax, press reports sold to-day: priation of $300,000,000 for govern- lands, which Dakota transport planes Men's stores were empty and tailorsment and relief in areas occupied can carry In this country, following were facing the "worst crisis in by American forces. The request in the crash which, took the lives of history. Shirts, suite, conts, ties in addition to $425,000,000 previously the American opera star, Miss Grace and handkerchiefs were all'at a appropriated for this purpose during

Tho the current fiscal year. Moore, Prince Gustav Adolf of premalum. Sweden, and 20 other persona."

Shortage of manpower is the main money would be for use between clue to the present difficulties. The now and July. The Danish alr authorities leading Industries, Including several The request also makes the total announced that, effective now, no metal working and all textile indus- for the current fiscal year equal to Dakota would be allowed to leave antries, need 057,000 workers-an an estimated expense of $720,000,000 nirport in Danimark with a load of increase of 22 per cent on the pro- for the coming fiscal year" in: more than 25,108 pounds-United went total-to regain their pre-war government and feeding of occupied

territories.-United Press. Premi

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