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Another Immigrant Ship Intercepted

Wounded By Bullets

Halfa, Fob 17.

Four Jaws auffering from bullet wounds including one woman and a girl, were admitted to the Athlit clearance camp hospital on Sunday night,

Attendants said it was ballevad that they were brought ashora from the uncertified Immigrant ship Gerus, boarded earlier by the British navy of the Pales tine coast.

Three British destroyers cocor. ted the Heruth with 700 Jews aboard into the Halla harbour and the British moved in two brigades of the oth Airborne division to ramova the Im. migrants and ship thest im mediately to Cyprus.

Heruth is Hebrew for freedom. The ship which was reported manned by an American crew and officers and sponsored by an

Jewish American

WAS group. sighted on Saturday night south- west of Tel-Aviv.-Associated Preas.

DEMAND FOR ISLANDS

U. S. In Pacific

600 JEWS ON

BOARD

Jerusalem, Feb. 16.

A Jewish illegal ship believed to be named Ulua, carrying over 600 passengers was intercepted by British Navy destroyers off the Palestine coast to-day, off- cial Government sources state.

The port area at Haifa has been cordoned off and troops are stand- Ing by for the expected tranship- when ment of Blegal immigrants the ship is brought in. probably to- .morrow.

According to a message from Jatta the ship is now standing the count neur Jaffa outside the three- mile limit.

The arrival of the ship has sent excitement rising among Tel-Aviv's estimated 200,000 population, nd be British troops are reported ta standing by outside the town.

The Ulua, reported to be under charter to an American organisation, left Sweden flying the Honduras nag on January 24. It was Jented at the time that she was bound for Palestine. She was reported to be Intercepted by British destroyers off Halta last Wednesday but was later said to be "somewhere in the Medi-

terranean."

HABEAS CORPUS WRITS

Wells of habeas corpus culling on Lake Success, Feb. 10. the Palesting Government and the The United States will spurn Bri-British military and naval authori- tish and Russian advice on Monday ties to show cause why the Jewish United Natious legal immigrants now on board the by asking Security Council for exclusive cus-Ulun should not be allowed to land served to- In Palestine will be tely over strategie Japanese-mun- dated islands in the Pacific.

morrow, an authoritative Jewish source sold here to-night. They on behalf of the will be served Jewish community.

the

United Stalen sources disclosed to- night that the draft agreement pro- viding for strategic trusteeship over the Marlanas, Marshalls and Caro- lines will be submitted to the United Nations with the request that it, be inced on current egenda.

However, it was learned that "Bri- publicly held to tain and Russin their position that the matter should rest until the signing of the Japanese peace treaty and the United States raight agree to postpone discussion for an indefinite period.

United States delegates hero huve been instructed to make certain first that the United States case for ex- clusive trusteeship over the Islands has been presented in detail" "In a public session of the Security Coun- clI.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1947.

On

Places All His Hopes

Anti-Inflation Measurės

Paris, Feb. 16.

M. Paul Ramadier, French Socialist Premier, to-day warned France that if his anti-inflation measures fail the country will face a disaster of inflation.

He said that those who did not consent to sacrifice would be "criminals against their country.".

He was speaking at the Town Hall of his native town of de Cazeville, north of Toulouse.

"You must understand that a one-sided Increase of wages increase the paper money in circulation," he said, "That situation would bring the Republic of France to disaster and abyss. An increase of wages obtained by increasing the issue of bank notes would be a lessening of your real purchasing power. Everybody must consent to sacrifices. Those who do not are criminals against their country.

"We must suffer to be free but common effort will assure us of the welfare of France, of the Republic and of liberty."--Reuter.

EUROPE FREEZING:

BERLIN DEATH-ROLL

London, Feb. 16.

The icy winds which swept across Europe to-day, keeping temperatures below freezing, caused at least seven more deaths in Berlin, and made fuelles Parisians stay abed.

In Vienna,

the mayor to-day

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'SWITCH-ON? DECISION EXPECTED TOMORROW

Fight For Coal

London, Feb. 16: Minens, railway workers and seamen were working non-stop to-day, although Sunday, to case Britain's fuel crisis now entering its second week.

Reuter learns that the Prime Minister's special coal committee of ministers and experts hopes that by Tuesday it will be able to fix the provisional day for the resumption of

current Electric

to industry. Domestic cuts will certainly not be cancelled this week, nor probably the next, and industry will be able to resume al only about half-speed at Birt

Pressed to estimate when some re- taxation of restrictions will be pos- sible, Sir Guy Nott-Bower, deputy secretary of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, said to-day: "That rests with the Cabinet. They will decide when it is right to make the first relaxa- flon and how to do it. It is not easy to get out of this. It has got to be pioaned,"

Coal Blocks at power stallons are now responding to the efforts of last Weck. Yesterday alone stocks rose by 47,000 tons to 1,053,000 tons.

Seven new deaths from cold re- ported overnight in Berlin made a appealed to the people to clean the total of 158 in the city since Decen-heaviest snow in many years from streets to prevent illness and ber 1. The newspaper Dermorgen the reported a police survey showed that flooding when the thaw comes. He nearly 10,000 people were in danger estimated 10,000,000 cubic metres of

the

with little streets of freezing owing to

in inadequate snow

inachinery available to clear it. home heating.

Temperatures in Austria remained consumption in the Was

a few degrees below freezing and February 7 stocks now stand at ten skies were overcast. Many and a half days' supply, compared the people still were being treated for with just under nine days a week

one man the slippery streets, and died from complications after break ing a leg on the street.

Even on the basis of the high week ended

However, the grim picture slightly relieved by the morning newspapers report that shipments of coal had arrived in the city. Power has been cui about 11 hours daily bruises and fractures from falls on the eight main London power.

due to a shortage of coal.

In Paris, citizens stayed in bed an the temperatures dropped sharply

wind and a bitter north

brought show flurries. The streets and sub- Pros- ways were almost deserted. pects of heating city buildings were

A similar application to prevent slim aluce fuel shipments were the deportation of a previous ship-stopped by frozen canals. There was

no lcin! estimate of any load of illegal immigrants was re- fected by the Palestine Supreme from cold. Court.

A Inter report said that Jews jumped overboard from the Ulua when Dritish naval ratings boarded the ship but they were reseved by navat launches.-Reuter.

AMERICAN CREW

London, Feb. 16. The Exchange Telegraph agency reported to-day from Jerusalem' that "the" immigrant "ship"intercepted by British destroyers of Tel-Aviv car- ried an American crew under an Americans captain and had salled under charter from 3 Northern European part-United Press,

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SOLE GUARDIAN AIM President Truman made public inst November's terms under which the Unlled Stutes wants to be the sole

TRIAL THIS WEEK guardian of the Pacife Islands. At

Jerusalem, Feb. 16. that time, governments which the United States felt were directly con- The military trial of four mare cerned with the matter were asked to Irgunists, charged with raiding the last comment on the proposal, Both Bri-Jerusalem railway tain and Russia subsequently told the November, was scheduled in Jerusa United States State Department that lem later this week, and there was they thought it should wait until the a strong possibility the four would

death also receive Japanese peace treaty had been nego- tiated. Australia added a similar bit of advice, pointing out that it wel- comes United States trusteeship over the islands whon the proper time comes,

The contents of the British, Russion and Australian notes have never been made public but it was understood that none gave any detalled objections to the US, proposal. Many United Nations delegates made no secret of their surprise at the harshness of the (Continued on Page 4)

EDITORIAL

Jewish sources looked upon

deaths

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At

stations stocks had risen by mid- night yesterday from about seven to eight and a half days' supply, while local stocks at London gas under- takings rose from 203,000 tons 212,000 tons this morning.

to

JOSELITYSTEMATEN ZONASTERCUPINTOLAT

Plane Hits Hospital

Glasgow, Feb. 16.

A Fleet Air Arm Seafire aircraft crashed into the roof of the mental wing of a Glasgow hospital to-day. killing the pilot and in- juring a male patient.

The engine was torn from the fuselage and crashed Into the dining hall, where shortly before over

100 patients had been eating. Several patients were clean- ing up the hall at the time and one was injured by fly- ing glass-United Press.

FRENCH ON OFFENSIVE

Indo-China Dospatch.

Hanol, Feb. 16.

French troops to-day are re- ported to be, mopping up single snipers left In the ruins of a 'large portion of the Chiese An- namite quarter, on the northern outskirts of Hanol after heavy offensive by the French on Friday and Saturday to clear this area, where ibo Vict Namhese Nationalists had been entrenched behind þarricades,

Wheat Deal Profit Disclosures

London, Feb. 16. The Daily Telegraph said to- day that the Argentine govern- ment's Central selling agency had made a profit of more than £7,500,000 on is £15,000,000 wheat deal with the Ministry of Food.

The Food Minister, Mr John Stra- chey, recently bought 800,000 tons of Argentine wheat to fill an “urgent gap in Britain's food supplies," but refused to tel

to tell the price in the House

of Commons because the consent of both parties to the contract be necessary.

"Sufficient information is

would

shou

£30

available in the city to show that the price paid was approximately per ton free on board," the Telegraph said. "This is more than double the price paid by the British GoverTI- ment to the British farmer.

"It is also well over double, the price paid by the Argentine govern→ ment to their own farmers. They buy the farmers' wheat partly at £12-175 Tper ton and partly at £11-5 per

ton.

100 PER CENT PROFIT

The Central Selling Agency hus to pay rail transport to port and perhaps some storage charges, buß-- its profit on the deal “has been at least 100 per cent.

"I

cannot have made less than £7,000.000 and have made a

may

The fighting continues in other much as £8,000,000, quarters of the city's suburbs as the "The price is also high in relation Viet Namliese have taken up the to offensive against French outposts.

Brianadian

wheat, for which the Government pays the Cana- dian Grain

Board the equivalent of The Nationalists have reoccupied two villages, Giap Nhat and Ging approximately £15 per ion free on board under its very favourable con- Tu, on the circular road which sur-tract. A small quantity of Canadian rounds the Tonkingese capital and wheat sold by the Canadian Grain are now digging in.

Board on the free market telches mi-

£24 per ton. proximately 2-24

"The Argentine government

HOLLAND ICEBOUND Reports from Europe stated that its 20th consecutive Holland had

WEATHER HANDICAP day of ley weather. Many houses

The weather is still not helping and offices were without heat and theatres and schools were cut off in the race to build up stocks and resume full industrial production. temporarily from coal supplies,

The official weather forecast to-night There have been electricity is: "Very cold weather continuing. culs yet, but gas pressures are being

Here are the latest reports from reduced daily. No casualties have mines, railways and docks, where been reported from cold, however, Sir Guy Nott-Bower sald the res

ponse has been "quite remarkable," Frankfurt was suffering to-day

with

of cool doing maght were with the temperaure at 18 degrees actual delivery of a down to was promised to rent work: relief for the next three days. Snow Over 4,000 miners at eight pits in flurries hit the elly Intermittently. South Wales and Forest In Glouces-

Munich reported a freak "Insulated tershire worked unceasingly to-day. Lo the northwest spur of "Little and there is a temporary Cap here Soviet Press troops, was "gut”a "high"price," United" Press.

over-

VIENNA SNOWSTORM

Londoners awoke to see a few flakes of snow falling from an cast sky while a bitter wind numbed those who ventured into the streets. Electricity supply cuts again imposed to-day.

And Peace

Treaties

Moscow, Feb. 16 The newspapers Pravda and Iz- vestia on Sunday expanded to eight size--lo pages-twice the ordinary begin carrying texts of the satellite peace trenules."

which held

steady the week-end wirk. temperaturer Bround 20 degrees Fahrenheit.— United Press.

At Royal Family Capetown To-day

his

French dispatches describe this area as having been in "no man's thus used its power as

central land."

Iseller to meet bulk buying on more cribed as an "infiltration attempt" wheat ready for immediate shipment dea than equal terms. Argentine has

Another Nationalist attack

of the

suburbs of Hanol where slow small

In other parts

western scale house to house operations are 'in progress French troops have advanced several blocks from the "Street of

prxhuced in Wales as the result of Ton after ton of

coal

came up pitshafts and some pits were expected to exceed their targets,

MINERS' RESPONSE Attendance, was 94 per cent

of Medica Cups" to "The Street of normal in South Wales pits, at one Other French messages say that of which only four men falled to the Viet Namh radio on Friday

appear.

Extra shafts were worked on the Tyne to-day, loading empty colliers There was a little sun for the first time in three weeks, but not enough to show frozen coal in wagons.

In Leicestershire coalfields during the week-end not

Demonstrations In Cyprus

announced that "following the re-

Nicosia, Cyprus, Feb. 16. the

the sand

Grecks Twenty-five quest of a representative of

International Red Cross, President | from all over Cyprus demonstrated Ho Chi-minh has agreed to free in Nicosia Square to-day demanding shortly certain numbers of prison- immediate unton with Greece and Capetown, Feb. 16.

ers and children who are now living "rejecting Britain's economic plans under Viet Namh protection." In bright summer sunshine Cape-

for Cyprus." There was no indication in the town to-day made the final prepato- larlly co-ordinated discussion". was tions to greet the King and Queen, was left in sidings. When wagon

radio announcement of how or when

The meeting, held in brilliant · . this transfer would be made sunshine, was called by the Greek Ethnarchy (Church). "Council and all Cyprus Greek political parties.

Both papers declared that "volun- the only method of solving inter. national problems. The papers de landmanded precise, nccurate and

in- observance of the

Batellite treaties,

All papers carried lating to the treaties.

pentences.

Britain's decisions to submit the Palestine issue to the United Nations as dangerous postponement which might result in major cutbreaks un-

and less the

immigration restrictions were lifted in terim period.

Meanwhile surprise search ralds

Jerusalem, continued in

Tel-Aviv and Holla while troops strung miles of barbed wire through Jerusalem.- United Fress.

the

Policy Is There; Now Action Is Awaited

CHINA may yet overcome her financial and economic crisis if the mea- sures announced by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shak can be translated from words Into 'decisive action. There will be no serious disagreement with the proposals to regain the country's stability, although some are bound to be disagreeable. The steps to be taken are logical enough; as much so that the only wonder is they have not been adopted earlier. Price controla and rationing are natural corollaries and should have been imposed from the start. 11 prohibition of dealings in gold and foreign currency can be strictly enforced (and past experience it would appear to be rather a bid ft), it should be possible to achieve some steadiness. In living costs. Loans should prove a stimulua.. Abolition of the import surcharge displays

■ willingness to be practical and to face up to the realities of the situation. Detalls of Just how this drastic policy, is to be enforced are awaited. Its Implorientation will require courage and ruthlessness, with 'no regard to person, prestige or popularity. Last week's announcement that the chief of the secret polies had been called in to make investigations is not a par ticularly good omon. If the government deatres publie confidence in its afforts to put Okina back on its fact, the last thing to do is to engage, the sarvicos of an organisation whose antivities must, of necessity, remain on. akrined in cloked files. The pubilo must be told what action has been taken

held the country of economia and financial saboteurs. Investigations inta- the activities of those who have already ruined the country's finances and acottamy, and are capable of repeating the treatment at any given time, hould be sonducted by a select committee, whose findings should be made publio. It should also be the duty of the government to make a weekly. report to the nation showing how its rehabilitation programme is being ruintled. Impressive regulations printed, on' 'embossed paper are not Bumalant. This time the action has to be strong and Ita results ungrudging. ly displayed to the world.

Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret Rose, who are due to dis

from the firm embark here

battleship pence Vanguard at 10 a.m., local time, on Monday for their South African tour, With perfect weather expected for editoriais re-

the official welcome thousands of workmen watched by crowds

of

ค

miners start work to-morrow lorries and wagons will be waiting for supplies. Long coal-trains, which had priori-

lo London.

ty, travelled non-ing 300 lorries į

The Army is

Reuter.

APPEAL FOR VIET NAMH

New Delhi, Feb. 10.

Mal The

Bishop Makarios, the head of the Ethnarchy, who returned to Cyprus in December after 15 years banish- Chau, Viet Namh rement, sald Cyprus would ignore

in

The Pravda, in an editorial, sald,¦ sightseers were busy all day finishing and coal traing continued to arrivealed to friends of Viet Namh. Britain's economic plons and refuse

touches to the city's elaborate scheme of decorations.

"If the treatles do not satisfy all de- mands, nevertheless, they represent the best which could be reached. The signed treates must be carried out! The mile-long road from the quay- firmly and accurately. Precise and side to the Monument at the foot ef loyal carrying out of the obligations Adderley Street, which commemorates is necessary in the name of general the first landing of Europeans in peace and friendship of the peoples." South Africa in 1052, is flanked by The Army paper, Red Star, said, five tierci stands, with scating for "The Soviet Union, which displayed 4,000 people. a persistent desire for quickest con. clusion of peace. treatles with the Germany will former alles. of

that the struggle persistently trenties will be really and fully carried out."

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Thousand Dio In Communal Riots

Patna, Feb. 18. Sai Krishna Sinha, Premier of Provincial Legis- Bihar, told the

The paper, noted that not every- thing that Russia. wanted granted in the treatles, but added, "From the Soviet viewpoints the treaties, in the main, solve correctly thoso vithi

which con ted the

in the Russia has negotiations." It succeeded in obtaining the principles It support "and the results of the fative Assembly, here to-day negotiations is convincing proof that about 5.000 Mostems and some

killed during, com- the method of voluntary co-ordinated Hindus were decisions is not only the best but also munal riots in Bihar fast your..

About the only method during the discus. sion of international problems." ..

The Pravda sold, the peace

the

con ferences proved that the methods and mechanical mejorities which Anglo-American attempted at Paris were doomed to failurz--United Press.

that

200

to the northern cool region to help to move cont. Railway workers on all the big four railway companies presentative in India, to-day op- were working throughout the day.

any solution except the enesis (union India, Burma. Ceylon, Slam, with Greece). regular intervals, The

cotive ald to Viet "The Almighty willing, I hope I ern Railway reached its

hee its record in Namh, such as

medical missions will soon be able to announce the when and the movement of conl-trains when

Anancial help".

glad tidings

when of the enesis 53 trains left South Wales. Eight The Viet Namh people, he said, Britain recognises our messages to more coal-ships reached London ave no alternative other than the British Prime Minister, Mr this morning, while during the 24 to fight to the last for the ex-Clement Attlee, the British Colonial hours ended noon to-day 27 ships istence of the republic under the Secretary and the Greek Premier, left north-cast ports for London.- undisputable leadership of. Dr. Ho Mr Constantin Tsaldarls."-Reuter. Reuter.

Chi Minh."--Reuter.

BALKANS COMMISSION

in London and other big cest West-urgent and

centres at Malaya und China to provide

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Hirohito's Property Valued

At US$200,000,000

Tokyo, Feb. 16. The Imperial Household Department to-day published the returns of Emperor Hirohito's property at 3,000,000,- 000 yen approximately US$200,000,000 under the military. conversion rate-in a report to the tax office for special property tax.

The

Athens, Feb. 16. group of the Balkens Enquiry Commission now inquiring into the Greek allegations of inter- ference by her neighbours in leaving to-morrow to visit Greek Islands and provincial regions. The group, including delegates of Britain, the United States and Russia, will · re- port to the Commission af Salonika where it will be sitting shortly, --- Reuter.

Girl. Prisoners In Demonstration

The government passed a bill familles will be taxed under the new levying, property tax. on persons constitution. owning property exceeding 100,000 Among thore filing returns was

Lahore, Feb. 16. yen in an effort to raise an estimated Takahiro Mitsui, of the former Mit-

Sixteen girl prisoners in the `La- toward meeting sui, Zalbatau family, who lated his 12 100,000,000,000 1,350 Moslems und

hore women's prison climbed at the Hindus were injured, he added. In financial deficits caused by Japan's property at 22,000,000 yen.

Meanwhile the Bank of Japan note roof, planted the Moslem League addition to the Hindus killed and defeat.

Prince Takamats, the Emperor's issue totalled 101,357,000,000 in con- Bag there and shouted slogans, in a Injured in the rioting, 400 Hindus were killed, and 100 injured when younger brother topped the list of frast to 00,000,000,000 in February recent incident, the Punjab Govern from the lant year

government last night. the and military

fire, Mr. Sinha sold, and 4,200 Moslem Emperor's, with a properly return the then used currency with a new iris were brought down by the staff

Todged In -their- roums" houses and 424 Hindu houses were of 10,000,000 yen.

yen in an effort to check inflation and

Reuter, burnt-Reuter,

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