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EDITORIAL
TEL-AVIV
Arab-Jew Truce In Jerusalem INTERNATIONAL FORCE REPORT
Jerusalem. Mar. 26.-The engine and two wagons of a goods train were derailed today by a 'mine which exploded near Ras El Min, cast of Tel- Aviv. Two British soldiers of the Royal engineers, acting as driver and fireman were injured.
Meanwhile a three way row threatened on Friday over a British report that 16 Jews were killed in the Bab El Wad convoy battle last Wednesday.
the
The Army originally reported that 12 Jews were killed before ormy artillery and the Hoganah drove off 200 Arab attackers. Haganah denled
report, claiming that only seven Jews were wounded.
The Army reported on Friday morning that British troops found 10 bodies at the scene. Haganah again denied the report, a Haganah officer saying that the British are deliberately spreading reports which tend-to-give the impression that the Jews are weak and the British have to protect them."
The army on Friday night Issued a statement that "the report of find- ing 10 bodles is incorrect."
Arnb sources sal we have 80 Jewish bodies. We will give them the 16 today and more tomorrow if they want them."
SCATTERED INCIDENTS Six Jeves and four Arabs were officially reported killed in scattered incidents, throughout Palestine
on Good Friday.
WOS
the
Jerusalem, where the day observed by Christians, had quictest day in weeks. Not a shot was heard.
the
retreated after reaching: a surround- ing minefield. Explosions were heard in the area.Associated Press.
TACIT TRUCE between
Jerusalem, Mar. 20.-A taelt trucc Arabs and Jews was ob- served in Jerusalem today while n procession of Roman Catholic clergy and a few hundred laymen walked the Via Dolorosa (The Way of the Crass) through the narrow cobbled streets of the Old City.
with tommy guns, rifles, pistols and Flanked by Arab National Guardy hand
grenades, the clergy and shadowy winding way Christ walked pilgrims, singing hymns, walked the with bloodstained feet carrying the Cross from where He was temned to
con- dealh by Calvary.
Plinte, to
A huge wooden cross was carried by a group of Polish Catholics in
the middle of the procession, which
This year's procession small compared with and there were no British taking part this time.
A Toast To Prosperity
III Excellency the Governor (Sir Alexander Grantham) and Mr N. O. C. Marsh (Chairman of the Hongkong Tele phone Company) share a toast to the future prosperity of the Telephone Company when' His Excellency laid the foundation stone of the new exchange building in Kow- loon on Thursday afternoon-Francis Wu.
China Aid As Impetus
Self-Help
To
AMERICA CANNOT UNDERWRITE
THE DESTINY OF CHINA
Washington, Mar: 26.-The Senate Foreign Relations Committee said today that the $463 million aid programme it proposed for China is intended to give that country "an opportunity to undertake “a--- vigorous programme of self-help."
House of Representatives in considering the $0,205 million "single pack foreign aid bill Itin
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Handsome Win
For Arsenal
MANCHESTER UTD. LOSE
TO BOLTON
London, Mar. 26.-Large gates and surprise results featured the Good Friday Football League matches which were watched by more than one million people in glorious sunny weather.
18 Leeds
The biggest crowd of the day-71,623-saw Manchester United, the Cup Final favourites, deci- sively beaten by lowly-placed Bolton Wanderers. Watched by a crowd of 60,000, Castleford Arsenal overran Middlesbrough. Hult Rooke scored three goals and Den- Rochdale IT. nis Compton, the England cricketer, Widnes rapidly regaining his best soccer
York form, netted two.
Arsenal now lead Burnley, their! nearest challengers,, by eight.points In the Championship race.
CRIMSBY WIN
Grimsby, at the boliom of the First Division, gained their first home win for more than six months by beating Everton West Ham surprised Cardiff by winning three- zero, all the goals being scored by their centre-forward, Stephens.
Birmingham, without a game to- day, still lead the Second Division by two points from Newcastle. Car- diff drop to third place with 43 points.
Wakefield T.
A
· Hullkingalone R. 8 Workington T. 0 4 Warrington -
Leigh
10 Featherstone R. 0
-Reuter.
8
35
No Goals In
Kwong Wah- KMB Match
(By "JACK").
At Boundary Street yester. day, Kwong Wah did well to hold their Kowloon rivals Bournemouth after leading tin KMB to a goalless draw in a four minules from time, dropped a re-arranged First Division en- valuable point in the Third Division, counter. Southern. In
this League, Leyton Orient, who have won 17 polats in.
Although both defences were sore-
their last 10 games, had a ground ly tried, tenacious tackling on their record crowd of 25,000.
pari kept them on top 'til the
desperate attempts
In the Third Division, Northern, closing stages, when cach set of Dougal scored three for Carlisle and
forwards made
Windie, diminutive leftwinger, got to decke
three for Lincoln, who are still leading the division with 49 points.
The following were the results of football matches played today:
Arsenni Blackpoor
First Division
the
issue.
It was only then that there were any signs of wilting. Only faulty marksmanship kept the score sheet blank, Chau, Man-chi of KMB and Chung Chan-kwong of Kwong Wah, who were the best forwards on view
the were paradoxically,
greatest sinners in this respect. 2
7 Middlesbrough
0
2
Derby County
Charlton Athl
1
Aston Villa
1
Grimsby Town
3
Everton
Bolton Wan-
ቡ
derers
2
Wolverhampton
2
w.
1
Huddersfield
2
Stoke City
0
Manchester U.
Sunderland Blackburn
The United States cannot under-1 to avoid a hazardous course" that! was heated by the Apostolie Ad-write the destiny ministrator of the Latin Patriarchy Committee suid in a report to the
of China" the otherwise might fellow. and robed clergy, Includby the Senate.
Emphasising the theme of China's The $463 million is pro- independence, he rald Franciscan
Fathers, guardians the holy places.
at posed for 12-months ald pro- will continue to adopt
the country # neutral gruntime. was very
attitude as far on was possible, adding The Senate debate is due to start that the Sino-Soviet treaty does not olher years, next Wednesday.
troops The
subject China to restriction with re-
ord to normal diplomatic inter- Rovers CAO with the United States,
Burnley diplomatic return of Dairen and Port Liverpool He implied the Impossibility of Chelsea- Arthur, at present occupied by the
Portsmouth Russians, when, in reply to queries, he old it was a matter of "military Brentford strength."-Reuter-AAP.
Cardiff City Doncaster
Rovers
Millwall
TOMMY GUNS ESCORT
the Ord
$570 million for China for 15
the measure
on the
after
vote on his
Tornado Hits Oklahoma
Itaganah reported that Arab bands attacking a Jewish convoy on Haifa Jordan valley road were dis-j The pilgrims, entering
cludes persed after a Ave-hour battle. The City, were escorted by Arab tommy
months.
When the House gets back to work report suid 15 Arabs were killed. cunners past hundreds of armed Jewish Neev Yancov, which has men many of whom watched the
the Easter been sporadically attacked for procession
n
from their sandbagged recess, one of the big issues will be week, was reported to be under as-gunnit
pasis sault but defenders said the Arabsented city walls.
on top of the battle-hether to put in a ban against any
American shipments to Russia. As the pilgrims and clergy wound' Representative Willam Colmer, through the streets, the cries of Arab Democrat of Mississippi, has re- street vendors were hushed and Arabquested the ban. He said he would shopkeepera removed from
n showdown their demand stalls and shop windows the belts of proposal.
ASSISTANCE ENDORSED ammunition, hand grenades, pistols and rifles they were offering for sale.
In its report on the measure, the erratic tornado, sweeping and twist- A few British policemen were Senate Foreign Relations Committee ing
endorsed the idea of assistance for Oklahoma last night, left in its wake stationed at points along the route.
Central and Eastern Not a single shot was heard from Chiun, but said: "Under present 1 dead and thousands of dollars in the beginning to the
end of the circumstances, it not possible to
to property damage. pilgrimage, which finished In the develop a practical effective long- Church of the Holy Sepulchre, bullt term
At the farming village of Welum- programine for
China's ka, the whirling "twister" sucked n aver the Rock of Calvary.-Reuter. economic recovery predicated on out-barn into its
slle JEWISH ACCUSATION
vortex and hurled it Jerusalem. Mar. 20-The Arabs destiny of Chins."
We cannot underwrite the against a house,. splintering every States.
thing and killing five people. Intend to intensify their attacks on
Tinker Airfield was hit for the Jewish districts in and around Jeru-The sees should not be put in second time in a week.. About 100
that the report said salem with the aim of occupying the whole
The End Of A Dream
8 was made abundantly clear
As
by Major-General Erskine in
his lecture at the European YMCA earlier this week, the Four Power Allied Control in Germany has never been able to work effectively since it was created, The original
of opinion
conception of the Commission was anal administrative Instrument for the unification and demoera- tisation of one-time Nazi Germany, but the Four Power Control has been hampered and frustrated from the very be- ginning by fundamentni differences which have gradually become irreconcilable. Fically, as General Erskine paluts out, there was no agreement on Just what kind of Germany the Four Allled Powers wished there exists wide gulf Russia and the other three Powers as to the definition of thirdly, there is a sharp division democracy: concernlur
the amouni and method of extracting repara- flons. The Western democracies now appear resigned to the In- evitable collapse of the Four Power Allied Commission, the end of which is being hastened Russia's decision to boycott any by further meetings of the main body. There la reanou to believe tha Russian action is motivated by that the something more than recognition of the Incompatiblity of view- point so far as the future, of Germany is concerned: It is markably like a defiant gesture in response to the new Five. Power Western bloc and the 10-nailon Marshall Plan meetings In Parts. The move has useful propaganda value for home consumption In- asmuch as the Soviets, by deli berately twlating the facts and
re-
BI-
realllies, make it appear to the orhary Russian that it is the wicked Western Powers which have been responsible for the breakdown of the Commission. On a different level. the Soviet Ponilus Pilate act can have other effect; it renders i canler for the Russians to administer atid control their part of occupied Germany without having to give an account to the Allied Powers regarding its form and intention. It means that not only has the iron curtain which divides western been
and tuntern Germany lowered, but also padlocked. It In conceivable too, that the Soviet withdrawal from the Allied Com- mission is a prelude to a demand for Russia to be left in full con- trot of Berlin. Mr George Marshall apparently thinks that way in that he has found It necessary to announce that the Western Allies have no intention of surrendering control of their section Berlin.
123
I making this early stand. Mr
orchat! may
be thinking terms of Allied prestige, but it is alzo
obelors that surrender of the Anglo-American sector of Berlin rould have far-reaching political repercussions throughout many. Any sign of weakness on Ger- the part of the Westem occupying Powers is likely to be treated as a betrayal and could lead to a show of resentment and disillu- slinment that might well ruin all the hard work already accom pushed towards bringing about the recovery of Westera Germans, The failure of the Fear Power Allled Control Commission cannot be allowed to halt the democratio programme mapped Dut for Western Germany, even though it meant the dream of unified country is at an end.
assistance from the United
Oklahoma City, Mar.
across
20.--An
bombers
were
Second
Southampton Bury Chesterfield Luton Town
Until he tired, Busman Lee Tin- sang was the best defender on the fleld. Kwong Wah's Young Chi- cheng
must come up very close how- ever, for his effective subjugation of the slippery Tung Ye-kit.
HALVES NEARLY SCORE
Some of the best scoring efforts came from the half backs. The
2-Manchester C-9 closest thing was a thirty yard
4 Shefeld U.
Preston N.E. • Division
3 Leeds United
0
Westham United
1 Leicester City Tottenham
0 Hotspurs
0 speculative drive by KMB's Tang
0 Sum which completely deceived
0
3
{
0
Nottingham
2
Forest
7
1
0 Bradford
0
Shefeld Wedu.
0 Fulham
Q
Third Division Northern Barrow
Carlisle U, Chester Crewe Alex. Darlington
4
1
Newenstle U.
Lincoln City
New Brighton
1 Barnsley
Wrexham.
Oldbui
Athletic
Mansfield
York City
Hartlepools U. 3 Gateshead 1 Hull
1
Rochdale city and imposing military a position of being held responsible planes were destroyed or damaged rule on all the inhabitants, a Jewish for the conduct of the Chinese Gov-there last Saturday, and last night Rotherham U. 2 Arency spokesman said here totny, ernment and its political, economic even 21-20 heavy,
In event, he said, the Jews and
that eve
military
destroyed affairs."
and 11 others were Southport of Palestine would be forced to the report continued, was to meet
damaged. The purpose of the aid programme, counter-attack.
Seventeen trainers were destroyed
Stocky
Tsang Pul-fool. The ball struck the cross-bor plumb in the middle und rebounded into the field of
play.
The closing exchanges were fast and exciting. Both gools had miraculous
escapes. While Kwong Wal packed their citadel tightly as danger developed, KMD maintained open defence tactics.
Consequently, the Bus forwards crowded like les in front of the Kwong Wah goal and tried to drive through forest of legs, while raids
at the other end took the form of long, swinging passes calculated to end with an individual dash through. 1 Although neither method brought ungible result, it was only because
1 the Anal efforts were wild.
TENNIS
Alexandria, Mar. 20-L Stallos
0
0
0
HUGHES PULLS
and
Bovers Accrington
Stanley Third Division Southern Aldershol Brighton &
Hove Bristol City Exeter City
0
A MUSCLE
1
1
0
Walsall
1
Bournemouth
1
1
Ipswich Town
Norwich City
3
Crystal Palace
Southend
Notis County
2
United
1
0
Queen's Park
Rangers
2
The spokesman told a press con- China's most important commodity eight fghters were destroyed
and three others damaged, while "relieve human 25 others dumaged.-Reuter. of China a chance to arrest the rate of
programme also is designed,
Nations to here."
coup economic deterioration in CEESE RATION Leyton Orient
which troops
gramme of self-help."
CUT AGAIN
2 Bristol Rovers 0 and G. Nicolaidis, the Greek Davis
Cup players, reached the final
of
2 Torquay United 1 the men's doubles in the Alexan-
Terence
to It had been suggested that requirements some 10,000 Danish and Norwegian Guffering and give the hardworking troops now stationed in Germany be
international force sent as an
to the maintain law and order in Jeru- salem after the British withdrawal. the Committee said, "to afford the nre wedded to the Idea of Chinese Government another.opper- We using these particular troops."
He said:
London, Mar. 26.-The "It is for the United unity to undertake a vigorous pro-
Ministry Portvale of Food announced on Friday night "Reuter.
Rending
1 Northampton should be sent
"MOST DIFFICULT YEAR"" that the individual weekly cheese Swansen Town Newport County Unless suitable arrangements were Nanking. Mar. 26-The next
ration will be cut from two ounces Swindon Town 3 Watford rushed through, Jerusalem
to would months will be the "most difficult
11⁄2 ounces beginning April 4. Scottish League Division "A" become "a battlefield In
the history of
Reason for the cut, the Ministry Third Lanark China's
2 Falkirk seven year" In from
foreign relations, Dr Wang
Shih-sald, is that Britain, short of dollars, Clyde now, the spokesman chich, the Foreign Minister, declared has bought no food from the United
1 Aberdeen declared.
Scottish League Divisioni "B" The Jews of Palestine were nowhere tonight.
States since last August.--Associated Dumbarton elaborating a plan to counter the Dr Wang was addressing
Press.
1 Kilmarnock threatened Arab offensive in
-Reuter. the bers
of the People's Political' Coun- Holy City and defend the 100.000 cilat a final reception before
RUGBY RESULTS London, Mar. 20-The following Jews living in Jerusalem and keep Council's dissolution prior to nife-line" oper to the
were the results of rugger matches coastal convocation of the National Astem-
played today
werks
plain
Dr
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iho
the
Britain's Easter Holiday Rush
rush Snle
bly on
London, MUTUAL BOMBARDMENT.
March 20.
Mat.
20. London's Wang said that while the nationalised transport in having Its Penarth In any battle
United States was still preoccupied arst experience of a holiday for Jerusalem, it with Europe, paying only secondary this Easter. Six hundred and fly Weston S. would be impossible to render the attention to the Far East, China was thousand railway workers are facing holy places immune from mutual left alone to watch the ramparts of their biggest test. bombardment and
street fighting democracy in this part of the world. the spokesman said. The Jewish
Redruth agency had taken the initiative by Union when he made this statement holiday
Over 1,000 additional referring to the Soviet being put into operation during the
trains are Swansen suggesting a political body of Danish and elaborated by saying that some and Norwegian troops as a suitable China's relations with Russia should popular resorts will carry the crowds Swinton
Extra buses on Huddersfield routes to the country (Continued on Pare 12)
and Liverpool S. be handled with the greatest care throughout the three days.-Reuter.
He was
period.
Wigan
Rugby Union
7 Barbarians 14 Wasps
12 Universities A. Union
D 51. Mary Hosp. 0 Newbridge
Rugby League
29 Barrow.
13 Bellevue R.
17 Oldham
22 St. Helen's"
dria lawn tennis championships to day. They were leading G. P. Hughes (Great
Britain) and R.
1 Joura] (France) 7-5, 6-8,,4-1, in the
seminals when Hughes pulled thigh muscle and retired.
In the mixed doubles. R. Ardes-
salam (France) and illo. Welvers
o (Luxembourg) had a walkover against Hughes and Mile Fannetler (France).
0
In the women's singles, semi-finals, Milo Welvers, beat Mile Pannetler, 30-2,
0-2 and Madame Landry (France) beat Miss Mattar 6-0, 6-0. 2-Reutor.
MOTTRAM LOSES FINAL Johannesburg, Sturgess, South Africa's No. 1 player, Mar. - 20.-Erle bent Tony Mottram, Britain's icading player, by 0-3, 6-4, 6-8, 0-1, in the final of the men's singles In the 12 South African lawn tennis chsinplon-
phlos today.
23
Sturgess and Mottram have teamed up for the men's doubles in various tournaments in England, including the Wimbledon championships-
KRAMER WINS AGAIN
Reuter
12
13
13
Memphis, Tennessee, Mar. 20 Jack Kramor overpowered Bobby. (Continued on Page 12)
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