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"Leo, this lady swears that when she came to the Zoo yesterday she had fifteen little girls...”

THE plateau in the centre

T

of the Old City of Jerusalem contains, in

the Dome of the Rock, the third most sncred monument . of Islam.

According to Moslem legend, el Burnk, the winged horse of the Prophet, was tethered there on the night he left this earth

The wall surrounding it con- tains the last relic of Solomon's Temple, the Wailing Wall, which is Moslem property.

At a distance of a few hun- dred yards is the Church of the Sepulchre, where the Holy miracle of Pentecost is re- enacted each Easter Sunday,

(Until 1914, a Greek and a Russian warship always waited in Haifa harbour to collect the sacred flame, which they carried at full steam to their countries, whence it was veyed from church to church throughout the land.

CON-

The keys of this church have for centuries been entrusted to a Moslem because of the rival- ries of the Christian sects.

illustrate These facts unique status of Jerusalem:

A SHAMBLES? Chance to stop it

the

A plan to

save

Jerusalem

by Major-General SIR EDWARD SPEARS, Chairman of the Committee for Arab Affairs

Postscript To A Harry Price Ghost Story

By LIONEL CRANE

AMONG the records left by Harry Frice, the

ghost hunter, will be The Story Of The Suburban Spectre. It was one of his most sensa tional cases. He ended it with the word “Uni- solved." He began it ten years ago in:—

FEBRUARY 1938: A sunny day in Bever stone-rond, Thornton Heath, Surrey, a street of red-brick, semi- dotached houses. In every house but one, women were busy polishing lino, washing, and cooking. The exception was the Villa Springfield.

When Price and I called there we found Mr Leslie Fielding, his wife Alma, their son, and their lodger, sitting white-faced in the parlour, too frightened to prepare a meal, "Our house is full of ghosts. Stay and you will see," they said. We did stay, and we did see-I give you my word for it.

We had been in the front room only a few minutes when an egg curved through the air, emashed against the wall, and places, entrusted with wide if alid stickily towards the floor, temporary powers and consi- We locked everybody in ono derable sums of money.

room, and searched the house Ile should be a strong man, and from the attic downwards. ne inspiring universal respect. He crash from the kitchen brought must be practised in administration us running. Fragments from a und used to command.

A

He could not be an American for broken bowl were still spinning

on on the floor. the Arabs would not trust American to be impartial. He cer- ininly ought not to be a Russian.

The terms of reference of the High Commissioner would be simple: establish pence in the haly places.

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Nine hours we stayed in the vifla,"

they were the most extra- and ordinary hours I ever spent. I saw a vase leave the mantelpiece, Fo

It would be his task to ensure through a shut door, and when I that justice for all prevailed there: went into the hall-it-was-lying in and to safeguard a spot where the pieces. thoughts of many take refuge, place the souls of millions yearn for. Danish He

therefore would activities from the area. political

He would at once, and under his force own responsibility, enlist n of volunteers consisting of neither He would be the sole judge as to the numbers re- quired.

FREE HAND

But if the actual population cepting a neutral regime for Arabs nor Jews. of Jerusalem has a Jewish ma- Jerusalem.

I believe the Arabs would jority, the city is surrounded by almost wholly Arab districts. consent provided the partition'

Even the United Nations plan is officially discarded. Committee, a body very much

But it should be realised biased in favour of Zionism, had that time, is now so short be- to allot the whole area surround- fore we give up the mandate that it is quite impossible to ing it to the Arab State.

The Arabs are in a position to evolve a system for the pro- The Arabs are in a position to tection of the holy places by cut off Jerusalem from water, a process of discussion at Lake power, and light; and food could Success.

A. UNO trusted

hand for, say, a year, when he Hwould have an absolutely free would give an account of his trustee- ship to the United Nations.

Meanwhile @ghting will undoubted-

ly take place, for a time at least, in the rest of Palestine.

more

only reach it by means of By the time sub-committees salutary, There can be no great

1 saw a brush hurtle down the stairs and Mrs Fielding in the. back. Only second before I had been upstairs and made sure the rooms there were empty.

wns

At teallme Mrs Fielding sitting beside the fire on a low stool,

Smyth

"Mine's a prefab!"

But the greater the desolation the country the people of the would turn with yearning eyes to the territory where peace prevailed. The example would ut lenst be heavily escorted armed convoys have reported to committees, satisfaction in brawling on the steps

has been of a church which is a sanctuary. WHATEVER views may be so long as the present situation and the Assembly

Presently, it may be hoped, a new the rights and lasts.

collected from the four corners

Palestine will emerge, une allowed wrongs of the Palestine prob- It would therefore be impose of the earth, the Brish will to evolve on democratic lines.

gone, and smoke and. Such a Palestine, in which a non- and I sat on another stool opposite lem, there can be none, Jew-sible for the Jews to hold Jeru- have

theher. Suddenly a cup and saucer was she held in her hand burst into Christian or Moslem, who does sulem against Arab opposition, flame will be the only crops of political Zionism, abandoning ambition to dominate others, allowed to develop its religious and fragments. not view with horror the idea although they might control the Holy Land.

In The only way out is for the cultural centres, and where Mosiem that Jerusalem will become a parts of it for a short time. battleground and a shambles.

Both sides, therefore, if U.N. to appoint, as a matter of and Christian could work and wor- ship in peace, might one day become Now that the U.S. which by common sense were to prevail, immediate.

High the ornament and pride of the pressure on small States forced have strong

holy Middle East.

the partition decision through

the United Nations Assembly, has reversed its policy, there is an opportunity for a new ap- proach which will enable Jerusa- lem at least to be saved.

The United Nations decision to make Jerusalem an inter national and neutral zone under the Trusteeship Council ap- parently survives. This at least is the view of the U.S. delegate at Lake Success..

There is every reason why both Arabs and Jews should agree to a peaceful solution for Jerusalem.

The Arabs are in a minority in the city as a whole. They are in an overwhelming majori- ty in the Old City, which con- tains only some 2,000 Jews, mostly orthodox Jews who have been established there since before the Balfour Declaration.

But in the new suburbs built At 2.30, 5.20, in the last 30 years, the Jewish population outnumbers the Arab. Taking the area as a whole, the Jews are about 60 percent.

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THE Arabs bitterly resent the

fact that under British pro- tection the Jews have been allowed in in such numbers that they, the indigenous inhabi- tants, have become a minority.

Nevertheless this fact does give them a motive for agreeing to a special regime for Jerusa lem in which numbers will not be the decisive factor.

NANCY Developing That Droop

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THERE

! urgency, reasons for ac- Commissioner for the

THE BIG WORRY-70 YEARS AGO

SEMID-COMIC WAN MAP

FOR THE YEAN 107%

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THIS is a serio-comic war map published I in 1877.

Sзys the reference: Russia, forgetful of the wound it received in the Crimea, 1 stretching forth its arms, in all directions. Having seized hold of the Turk, it is eagerly pushing forward in the hope that it may overwhelm him as it has already done Poland........

..Hungary is only prevented from attacking Russia through being held. back by Austria. The Frenchman, remem-

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bering his late defeat, is carefully examining his weapons: Germany is naturally interested and holds himself in readiness for any emergency.

watching,

Great Britain is eagerly. rendy at any moment, at least, to prevent Russia from seizing the Turk's watch, or interference with Suez. Spain is taking a ́much required rest; Italy is making a toy.or the Pope; and the King of Belgium is taking care of his treasure. Denmark's flag to small, but she has reason to be proud of it.

By Ernie Bushmiller

FINNE ---AND WE'RE

PRACTICING

TO LOOK

!"

BORED

the next minute I saw smoking piece of coal leave the fire in the grate, go across the kitchen, and smash against the opposite wall.

The Incidents happened con- tinuousty, but, as evening came on, we were startled afresh by a loud crash from one of the bedrooms. We ran upstairs to find that a double wardrobe, filled with clothes, had tipped forward across Mrs Fielding's bed and smashed it.

I

was standing alone in the parleur with the door shut, making phone call. I heard a crash of glass. When I had finished Mrs Fielding came in and said: "Look! One of my best tumblers has just broken against the kitchen wall."

She undid the sideboard beside which I had been leaning, and there' were the other five tumblers of the the set and a ring of dust where sixth had been standing.

That was my last memory of the Villa Springfield until:-

I met Mrs

MARCH 30: Fielding again.

She told me she stayed in the house in Thornton Heath until 1940, when she moved to a bungalow in Devon. "The spirits moved with me," she said. "They never leave me now, but they are not mischievous any more. They do not break things,. they bring me glits instead.

"Ini the past year. they have rought me a Chinese fon and an African jungle knife. Once, when was in bed, I heard money raining down on the concrete, path all round the bungalow. I looked down, and there were half-crowns and two-altilling pieces. They keep I shall ma well, they advise mic. never be afraid again."

P.S.:

Living at the Villa C Springfield now Is Mrs Smith. It is a highly polished, cheerful-looking house.

"Ghosts?" said Mrs Smith. "Bless" your life, I've never heard of such a thing."

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