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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1948.

PATIENT FISHERMAN

(Copyright to All Countriess

RALPH SHAW. asks

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

OTARIAN Dr G. A. C. Herklots is perturbed d by the fact that Hongkong is indifferent to the plight of the humble worker. And quito rightly sol All of which reminds me of a won- Gerful system used by a Japanese pearl tycoon to keep his divera happy and contented— conjuring tricks performed by the boss after office hours. With some variations, the scheme might be applied here to stop the pernicious spread of Communism and to hip in the bud any attempts by the humble worker' to become a fly in the Colony's industrial ointment. Anyway, I offer the iden for what it is worth.

Can't you imagine the newspaper stories that would follow 7 this one, for example:

"A threatened atriko at the vast dill picklo works of Lord Gherkin was averted yesterday by the prompt action of His Lordship in staging- an Impromptu stage show, which had his workers screaming in the aisles.

BRITAIN'S PALESTINE MANDATE ENDS TODAY

UNHOLY MESS IN

THE HOLY LAND

LONDON, May 2. THE twilight of Britain's mandate in Palestine, of- cially ending on May 15, has already darkened the Holy Land. Night is falling, and the gun-flashes are brighter than hopes of peace.

In Great Smith-street, Lon- don, the eight

of "the men Colonial Office who have been handling Palestine affairs, led by Mr John Gotch and Mr Traf- ford Smith, will gather their „papers and move quietly to other

matters.

In Palestine this week-end thore-is-hope-that-the truce en forced in the Jaffa fighting by British guns will bring peace. The British, however, are al ready retiring to the enclave about Haifa, the embarkation port.

When the mandate ends, this will be considered military terri. tory under military law and will be held by force.

CITIES CUT OFF Roaming bands

ture of the country has broken

by JOHN PREBBLE

and in March last turned against it, proposing instead a temporary UNO trusteeship when expired.

the

mandale

INTO PALESTINE WENT SIX PILGRIMS, FOUR MEN AND TWO WOMEN OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMTS- SION. COLD-SHOULDERED BY JEW AND ARAB, THEY HAVE NOW RETURNED TO DECLARE PARTITION AN FACT IN

ACCOMPLISHED

THE SENSE THAT THE JEWS AND ARABS CONTROL DEFINED AREAS OF THE COUNTRY.

damp and dark basement

The. pligrims. Ilved in-a-sordid,

King David Hotel G.H.Q, in

the

arca.

Neighbouring Arabs refused them food and they existed on charity.

Only

one

there remains

stlil

Norway's Colonel Rosher Lund, now

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KRUSALIM

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AN

NSJORDA

Alum

He knows and personal representative to Palestine

loves Palestine, of the UNO Secretary-General.

and the greatest disappointment to To the British soldier last week him has been the failure to obtain came the first signs of release, Intruce in the fighting, every truck moving west to Halfa. He looks at the patches of yellow mustard flowers, and the cerise mallow.

He knows that when the pink and white apricot blossoms ogain he will be gone.

come

He has scant time to admire the beauty.

Nearly 25,000 British

suffering and destruction which are from his distress at the

fearing the heart out of Palestine, Cunningham finds sad reflection In the fact that a quarter of century of British administration ends in flames.

Many of the British high-ups still

port is going,

A thousand of the

British Palestine Police are already

home.

"Lord Gherkin, with his usual promptitude, telephoned for his wife, Lady Lizzie Gherkin, and sawed her in half amid the hilarious howls of his pickle- pushers. I have always thought quickly,' said Lord Gherkin, after the show. "That's how I made Gherkin pickles regurgi- tato in every corner of the globe,"

On the other hand, employers of | labour had better be good or else..... Imagine the following story in on American newspaper:

Thirty thousand workers at the

Dithery Zipper Works in Chicago are threatening to go on strike unless Of the remaining 3,000, 2,500 will they receive a bonus following be withdrawn ira είνα batches dismal attempt by Me' Hiram' Q. this month. The remainder will Dither, Chief Zip, to walk-a tight- stay under military command.. rope slung. between two factory

buildings.

:

British troops struggle to keep) some of the vital roads open. Ая "Mr Dither got half way across they leave towns and centres there when he stumbled. A wreath hos rush by Jew and Arub to been purchased by the workers, who secure control.

Is a

.

Scores of Jewish

settlements

in

Arab territory have been filled with many of Haganah's 30,000 front-line troops stocked with arms and foar

are adding the cost, to their claims against the management."

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The tendency, however, Is for Then this new approach to THERE are. Indeed, great posilbl- each to retire into its own respec- labour and marital-troubles. tive areas.

The Jewish States are running a more or less

effective Take old Lepechraun Z. Jiggle=" administration, including postal zerker, for example. There is old service, chiefly in the Tel-Aviv strip. Jigglezerker busily dictating to his

THERE

BE WILL

90,000 JEWS IN JERUSALEM, EVERY ONE WITH SOME NATIONAL HERVICE JOB. THESE CAN BE EXPECTED TO PUT UP A STIFF FIGHT TO CONTROL. THE CITY AFTER, OR PERHAPS BEFORE, MAY 15,

Haganah has proved itself better disciplined and organised than the Palestine Arabs.

SEEKING SAFETY With British-convoys

blonde secretary and office show- plece although the position of both parties is rather compromising.

Suddenly, the unmistakable elo- phantino tread of Mrs Jigglezerker Is heard in the office corridor. Is old Leprechaun worried? Not on your life.

"Abacadabra!" he cries. "Zoops!" And the blonde has vanished into thin air. Mra Jiggle enters and finds the old war horse hard at work, head burled

of blank in a sheat She extracts $400

and memos,

Jiggle walks over to the clothes walks off to do some shopping. And

In a week the internal struc--troops will have to be withdrawn in Palestine admit uneasiness about by August, first to the wired se- the degree of moral blame that may curlty zone at Mount Carmel, above attach to Britain for the withdrawal. in, as they surely will, the Jews will inside of his raccoon cost. Simple, Haifa, and then home.

down. The threadbare Pules- tine Government fulfils only ten percent of its functions.

But most believe that the real blame of and responsibility rest now on the

United Nations,

Until the last day the Kuns of British warships In the bay The main cities are cut off from Haifa

will

cover tho enclave, each other. Commando bands of guarding milliary equipment which Jews and Arabs infest the reads. Jew and Arab have been raiding At night the remaining British listen and stealing. to the hum of sulpers' bullets.

All but 27 of the 400

Brilish

Administrative officers have handed over their duties to Palestinian

UNO AGREED To end mandate

Fouricen months

ago, after re- viewing past talks with Jews and Arabs. Britain decided to refer the whole matter to the United Nations. but A community of interests was

OUR YOUNGSTERS In a dirty campaign The British conscript in Palestine

Juniors. The rest are standing by Is a World War II. veteran, in Jerusalem with hand-baggage packed ready for a quick departure at the age of 20.as ever his brothers clored, but it could not be obtained he fights in as dirty. a campaign absolutely fundamental, she de-

by "more battalions, tanks, and airplanes,"

by air.

IN THE COUNTRY THEY ARE LEAVING IT IS EASIER ΤΟ DIE THAN ΤΟ BE LEGALLY BORN OR BURIED. NO REGISTER OFFICE IS OPEN.

did.

Of him Sydney Smith, corres- pondent in Jerusalem, cabled:

By September the United Nations "He has to go into battles nastier had agreed that the mandate should than any war because there is no be ended as soon as possible with clearly defined front. Before now a transitional perlod under UNO. he has died, slot 'In the buck by

It is easier to commit a crime than thugs because of some statement-of

Britain's policy of refusing to en- to secure justice. Lawyers,

defen- which he has never heard-made force a solution against the wills dants, and plaintiffs arc

setting thousands of miles away by some of the Palestinians, declared Ameri- quarrels with arms, or walking the international

politician who has ca's Herschel Johnson, was "not en streets unprepared..

never seen Palestine.

tirely helpful"

Government taxes are no longer "The result is that all he wants collected, although Jews and Arabs is to go home. Yet his morale is Ampose levies for war'funds.

terrifle, and in the past week I have seen him go into action in full battle-

of

NOTHING WAS ENTIRELY HELPFUL WHATEVER WAS SAID IN THEIR NAME DE- FORE UNO, JEW AND ARAB ACCEPTED THE FACT OF WAR AND PREPARED FOR IT.

From Lake Success correspondents

As the spring sun dapples the order, rescuing Jews from a burning hill-slopes acarlet and blue convoy while Arabs shot at him and anemones with cloud-shadows, the Jews welcomed him with grenades. 07 words of the Balfour Declaration "He is sniped at on and off duty, which committed Britain to the held up on roads and robbed of his now write of the sense of defeatis

bloodshed, cost, odium and trouble"

WHAT IT COSTS

BITTLA.

HIS

In lives and money General Gordon Alexander Mac-

BIG BATTLES

•

And no intervention

Later, when foreign armies move cipset and takes the blonde from the

fad it harder.

isn't.it?

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as HYPNOTISM, too,

At the moment the Araba ilc across their communications. Jews dressed as Arabs, and Ambs

has its uses. Jews, carry out ralding parties in

What immense possibilities Ite la the hilly country, striking from the that sphere of necromancy! olive groves and the orange planta- tions that are perfumed and heavy of the Bradford Gas Works

"Fitty thousand violent employees

mollified yesterday by Mr Independent convoys wall for Murgatroyd-Therm, who Induced patrolling British armoured vehicles, them to go back to work imme- to follow them two abreast in a rush diately for three shillings a day less for safely.

than unlon rates.

with fruit.

were

Arab official convoys are generally

"The men, who had struck for an guarded by the Arab Legion. Jews increase of seven shillings a day, can have British protection if they also agreed to work fourteen hours desire. it, but generally

break the a day, rules by bringing too many vehicles

or arms.

"Mr Murgatroyd-Therm is a stu~ dent of Professor I. M. Hard, the They have also great stores of food,

The Jews are not short of arms, bont merchant."

Lidget Green hypnotist and rag and

but their realisation of the long labour In the Colony, Get out your So go to it, you employers of struggle ahead is indicated in a bags of tricks-and keep 'em happy. strict rationing which keeps many The Communists won't bother you at Jews hungry.

They control abandoned R.A.F. air strips on which land planes of the Haganah Star of David Air Force, operating from Tel-Aviv and bring- ing in arms and occasional V.IP. immigrants

JEWS' BIG PLANS To recruit fighting men While it is reported that the many thousand internees we hold Cyprus may continue to be held

in

of Palestine pass to the final arbi- job, which seems

Yet he does this remarkable that hangs over the council rooms.

to him useless, tration of force.

without question, and desertions

re less than 1001 per cent."

is b1-year-old commander

As the clash deepened last week until August, the Jews have big Since the announcement of parti- wife and five children in Renfrew tence of control. Theoretically their senttered about the Mediterranean,

milian, a sparse, dry man with a

the Army tried to keep up the pre- plans for a chartered fleet, already tion last November force has claimed shire, a record as leader of the 61st duties are still to maintain order and to bring in 20,000 fighting men from 134 British lves and wounded 300 Highland Division in the war, and a atop the fighting so long as

D.S.O. and M.C.

mandate Insts. This they did al He wl!! bo From July 1045

leaving for the en- Jaffo. the end clave any day. The Arabs attempted of last year the military occupa- tion in Palestine has cost the British to kill him last month by blowing But most of the battles are now taxpaper £100,000,000. By the time

up his cream-coloured staff car, the last British soldiers steps from Publicity-shy, his uncolourful per

more.

until

the 1,200ft. Jetty at Haifa It will sonality conceals an ability to do u have cost another £12,000,000,

magnificent if thankless task,

the the island, and others from Europe.

London now hos only essential contact with Palestine. Cable wires are clogged and only top-priority messages are going through.

being fought on a large scale with out Intervention, as a few weeks ago when Arabs drove their guns down openly from their Nablus H.Q. and shelled the western suburbs of Jerusalem

of lis

In the twenty-five years mandate Beltain has trod its Vin Dolorosa with high costs in money; prestige, and blood.

Equally the Irgun slaughter of The burdensome stone which the Yasin was completed in a night and fem for all people, is falling from Arab women and children at Deir Lord said he would make of Jerusa- day without interference.

the neck of Britain.

Pence talks have fluttered against TRUCE FAILURE . a rising storm. War is the un-..

A big disappointment - written peroration on the Useless paper that litters the tables of the When the mandate ends the High United Nations Security Counell at Commissioner too will come home. Lake Success, New York.

Jovial General Sir Alan Gordon The committees and, sub-com- Cunningham, who has held the post The Army will be hitting less and mittees have deliberated. America since 1945, has found these last few less as it withdraws. It is already refused partition, then accepted it, weeks harassing.

too thin on the ground Police sup-

"Zion But for Palestino Itself?

one to comfort her." spread forth her hands and there in

pili

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"I said to her 'Signora,' 1. 'satd, "now that you're getting back Triene and maybe some colonies, you. won't still ', hold out for another three-pound-ten ́s

week???

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