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hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. III NO. 127

In The Name.

Of Peace

TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1948.

ARAB TROOPS ENCIRCLING

Mr Moshie Shertok. Israel's Foreign Minister (left) nna Couni Bernadotte, United Na liony representative, who have met to discuss. Palestine truce proposals,

Robeson Willing To

Go To Gaol

Washington, May 31.--Paul Robeson, the famous Negro singer, refused today to tell the Senato Judiciary Committee whether he is a member of the American Communist Party.

ship:

Asked Communists' in

TEL-AVIV

Capital Cut Off From Haifa

LATRUN BATTLE

Cairo, May 31.-Allied Arab armies poured men, guns and armour into a 40 mile front aimed at Tel-Aviv and the entire southern half of em- battled 'Israel's coastal strip.

The front extends from Jerusalem to Tulkarm, a dispatch from Central Palestine said. It forms the eastern side of a gigantic encircling movement. Arabs said their troops were making around Tel- Aviv, provisional capital and military headquarters of the new Jewish state.

A bulletin issued by the Army Higher Committee

in Cairo claimed that Iraqi troops had cut off Tel-Aviv from the northern port of Haifa by slicing through the coastal strip. There was no confirmation from Arab military circles.

the

re-

and others cited for contempt of not been as many people "liquidated | northern, southern and castern ap- the coast separating Tel-Aviv from

answer

Senator

from

Deathly Sea Covers Town Of Vanport

A wall of water swept over the town yesterday. from the flooding Columbia River, wrecking whole blocks of two-storey wooden fata and piling them like matchwood against the one wall of the enclosed, low- lying community.

Dino

At the

P.G.

Reservations

Boat crews were tonight dragging | day-how, from the air, he saw the the deathly still sca which covers city of Vanport smashed to the town.

splinters.

"

Td: 27880

Price, 20 Cents

Arrival At

Helping hands aid Jewish ' Immigrants ashore at Haifa, Israel, from barge tender as first group to reach Jewish newly-proclaimed state arrives from Italy. The immigrants, 300 in. number, were travelling under visas issued by the British.. They arrived on the ship Argentina as 'the came Into Jewish state being and received entry AP from permite

· Picture.

TRADING IN STERLING

WITH JAPAN

now

Hongkong Excluded From Arrangement

31,-The May London, British Treasury announced on Monday night that Great Britain and her colonies, ex- cept Hongkong, may trade with Japan in sterling.

This arrangement agreement with General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the the Allied Powers In Japan. announcement said. constables

Under the plan, sterling acquired for Japan by the Supreme Com- mander over the amount he expects

In the near

future will, lo spend

dollars. Pro- the be convertible

Into

"I saw the whole wall of an apart- ment building pop out like a balloon exploding The furniture stood un- disturbed in the rooms. There were people there, too.

follows

The announcement said the Iraqil fence line just inside the area as soldiers captured Natanya, on the signed to the Arabs under the parti-

Portland, Oregon, May 31.-Vanport, 24 hours coast 10 miles north of Tel-Aviv, on plan. and added: "Communications *be- The latest Egyptian communique ago a thriving town of nearly 19,000, tonight lies tween Tel-Aviv and Holfa havo said that a Jewish counter attack

submerged by flood waters and hundreds of its in- In the Isdud region had been been cut."

An unidentified ship

habitants are feared drowned. passing pulsed and that Egyptian bombers along the const fired two shellshammered targets behind the Jewish the earth (in He said he was willing to go to himself "walked gaol rather than tell. Mr Robeson | Russia) for the first me with Into Natanya during the day There lines in the Rehovoth area.

was no damage.

RADIO REPORT appeared with several other wit- complete dignity."

Tian- Arab Seglonnaries from the

The British controlled Near East nesses to oppose the Mundi-Nixon Communist control bill,

United States gave their allegiance fordon announced they had amash Radio said that Iraqi troops were Mr Robeson said he thought mem-to Russia, he replied: "They don't ed & Jewish attempt to open occupying Kia Yona, and another

vital Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv highway. bers of the Communist Party "have have as much allegiance to Russia

The Jews lost 114 dead, on Amman Jewish settlement 18-miles north of

Tel-Aviv. soma Americans to done a magnificent job in America," | as

Fascist

communique said. The highway If the Arabs thrust toward the but he declined to answer a speci- Greece."

battle was fought in

the Babcoast at this point, the Jews will fic question as to his party member- Mr Robeson, who said his father Wa

Wad-Latrun aren west of Jerusa

The surging waters gave no wam- was a slave in South Carolina, also jem. The legionnaires sold they undoubtedly fight hard to stop it.

Most of the Vanport victimas were

Ing.. "There was no warning trickle, "Nineteen leading Americans are told Senator E. H.

Fallure would cut off Tel-Aviv and Mooro (Re- captured three Jewish prisoners (4

children playing in the warm sun-

no minor hole in the dyke,” he said. going to gant for refusing to answer publican, Oklahoma)

that people ana seized four armoured cars and Halfa from one another.

when the swirling waters "There An Egyptian newspaper sald, un-chine

was suddenly a nix-foot that question, and, necessary.

an Amman, Transjordan date- roared through the streets.

breach in the railroad embankment, I will join them," Mr Robeson said. had "infinitely more" opportunity in large quantities of arms, amsauni-

Russia that ho would have in tion and trench digging machines.

line, that Ho referred to Hollywood writers

Iroqt troops had reached Arab troops manoeuvred on Mississippi. He added there had

One reporter in the city before then it was 60 feet, then 600,

WALL OF WATER Congress for refusing to

One Arab nertherm Palestine. It reported also the dyke burst said: "Suddenly the similar questions at hearings of the in Russia as in American slavery."proaches of Tel-Aviv.

Informant said Iraqi soldiers were that the Arabs had scored a great water swept down the streets. It

"A wall of water 10 feet high slid (Re-only Homer Ferguson

the city. victory-one leadng to the battle of broke like waves at a bench. I saw House Committee on un-American

three miles

the it slap against apartment buildings. through the breach, striking down night along activities.

publican, Michigan) told reporters There was no confirmation of this Tel-Aviv-in,

There was a splintering sound, sharp whole apartment buildings like a supply There was an outburst

The Jews conceded Iraqi Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv

route of an-afterwards the Committee would report.

con- troops were within nine miles or at Latrun during the last few days, and loud, and a building swung bulldozer knocks down a sapling plause and some hissing-from decide later whether to start

the city at one point.

around as if on a lopsided railway The buildings seemed to burst as The Arab Legion. continued spectators as Mr Robeson made his tempt action against the singer.

Jewish shelling

strongpoints in turntable."

the water, hit them. The Chairman of the Committee, statement.

REPEATING TACTICS

and maintained The tamous singer gestured Senator Wiley (Republican, Wis-

Survivors told of a building with The Arabs are trying to encircle modern Jerusalem violently when he declared he would consin) expressed doubt that

but Senator the Jewish stronghold of Tel-Aviv control of the supply road to 90,000 20. people in it, none of whom was would, not say whether he was an Ameri-Committee

as they already. have Jerusalem. Jews besleged there.

believed to have escaped. Haganah Hallo,

sources can Communist because the question Moore said: "Robeson seems to want

that Jewish troops had we Some of them talked today of tell-

DIDN'T BELIEVE WORST was an "inynaion of my right to to be made a martyr, maybe

ing the Security Council that the reported secret ballot."

Many of the residents refused to aught to make him one. "Sometimes a year

gool cools Arabs cannot accept its request for captured the Arab towns of Lajjun

until There was some more applause

"Two people stood on the porch leave the town four-week armistice unless the and Megiddo, overlooking the plain

of their apartment, shrinking from forced them with drawn guns. from the audience when he said the off some of these

Asked whether he would fight for United Nations repudiated the idea of Armageddon.-Associated Fress,

AGREE proposed law was "Fascist act"

TO TRUCE, REPORT of dividing the Holy Land into

The police said horns and sirens the flood. The bullding next door which he would not obey, Mr the United States in case of a war

London, May 31-According to

and were blown when the railroad em-crumbled in a leisurely fashion. from Cyprus

"The next time looked, those lo Robeson said his own son went to with Russia, Mr Robeson said he Jewish and Arab states.

reports than Arab An encirclement, rather

ac. bankrent protecting the elty crum- school in Russia and found complete would have to decide that when the

hazardous frontal attack, is general- Cairo, the Arabs have already freedom from racial prejudices. Heume came.-Reuter.

ly believed to be the Arab aim re-cepted the Security Council's pro-bled; but many did not hear them, people were gone.

no posal for a truce in the Holy Land "The people just did not believe that porch. An old man ran frantically posals to make British purchases in garding Tel-Aviv. There

a little

this fact, the Treasury said.

the time official word as to the nearest point and this decision will be announced there was a break," said one officer, ahead of the racing waters;

being," it

It added, reached.

of the Arab League meeting

wanted to see the water tots in it. The water got them, too." the hostile troops have

homes.

Mr Hulbert from the air watched "purchases of American cotton tex- Abdel Gelli El Rawi, Iraq's taking place in Amman.

meanwhile, Brst before fleeing their fold

Bernadotte,

the hubbub in the sections not yet tiles must be excluded from these Count Charge D'Affaires in Calro,

from Cairo to Many stopped to pack blengings or

reached by the waves. It was an arrangements because General Mac- few this morning

ald neighbours." newspapermen that Iraqi troops

ogony to see the people bustling Artbur has reserved the right were only five kilometres away. Ifalfa, where some of his staff are

with the Jewish Rescue workers reported seeing about trying to save furniture and require at least partial payment in dollars for these. This was because Pressed for details and the source to keep contact

small-power boats clothing," he said. authorities while he himself

many men in It car of this news, he sald 'came from

either to Amman or to Caire for a breaking into second storey win- "I wanted to yell, to warn them much of the raw cotton going into the US private and not official sources.

with Azzam dows. No other evidence of looting to run for their lives. some 20. miles meeting, tomorrow, Along the coast,

Pasha,

Secretary-General of south of Tel-Aviv, the Empuan Arab League. This meeting will was seen. A deputy sheriff said he do was to waddle the wings of my Army was up against a Jewish de- take place after a meeting of the saw four persons in a car being plane."-Reuter,

crunched under floating building. Arab League representatives.

Many persons said they In Tel-Aviv, after a short meet-

being

swept ing with Mr Shertek, the Jewish children

Gcattered in Survivors Foreign Minister, Count Bernadotte said: "When came to Halfa, 1 throughout nearby Portland told of their harrowing escape, of, racing Shalon,

the wall of water. learned one word. aton,' and a)-[n

from the though it means How do you do?swimming to higher land, or escap

ing from cars stalled in a mass Jam the only menning I see is Fence."

Before leaving Cairo for Pales-of vehicles on the two roads leading over proceedings in the Chamber line, Count Bernadotte saw Azzam from the low-lying town.

considered of the House of Commona tonight, Pasha; but observe thot |

EDITORIAL

The Fishing Industry

announcement that the

Tritian Government plans to

kong has been so active in re- habilitating its fisheries that any Innovation by the Home govern- ment, such as the creation of a research Institute concerned with the technique of fish farming, Fish arouses particular interest,

In long. no novelty in farming is no

Dage kong, but there is probably still plenty of room for

and

for ohning

Its the the

was

Woman Acts As Commons Speaker

London, May 31-For the first time in history, a woman presided

Sho

оп

At

I

now

flies

the

the

"They

MADDENING RUSH

Ба away.

shelters

They said the first 15 minutes a maddening rush of men, women and children, striving to save frantically uncertain their lives where to turn and run except away from the water,

So was

waggon with two sering Japan will be considered in view of

10

comes from All I could the textiles

financed by dollar

where

她

loans. Associated Press.

Dalton Back In

In Cabinet

set up a research institute on the scale of a first-class ngricul- tural station to investigate means of improving the diel of people who depend largely on fish of

interess to special

Hongkong where, sinee the reoccupallon, a considerable amount of money

official Lins been spent, and

*ximum

results from encouragement given to fostering

industry.

London, May 31-Mr Hugh Dalton, who resigned the Wherefore the Colony and Improving the fishing In-

Chancellorship of the Exchequer last autumn after con-- dustry.

may look forward to beneflelal In certain respects, and

fessing to a Budget "leak to a newspaperman. has so far as stabilising the advice from the British research

is alation when od of the fisherman

14

into comes

returned to Government office as Chancellor of the Duchy .cxistence. The slated polley of concerned, the Colony is ahead of

of Lancaster, it was officially announced today. other Far Eastern countries in the Colonial Office is to develop

results to have been Paton, WAS MrG Florence

1a Toported to Biali solenti@cally

the developing

the everywhere and resources

Azzam Pasha

sibility of Mr Ernest Bevin, Ho succeeds Lord Pakenham, ap- Member of Parliament, fishing industry. The achievo-

Labour there is obviously a vast field of

told the Count: "The Arabs didn't the to been

by -selected who had

painted Minister of Civil Aviation Foreign Secretary, to be done by the new

want war but they have the Pales- wan ments to dato are well known!

Detailed arrangements for assist- Institute in exploring Speaker to take charge during a

the fine situation in hand and now the

in place of Lord Nathan, who has the fishing feet, almost non-

ing him are still under considera- debate in the commitice

resigned. natural fisheries,

United Nations steps in to protect existent when

1/on. and improving nat the Japanese

The Chancellorship of the Duchy capitulated, is not only back to

both fresh water and

Scottish estimate marine.

the Jews. The Arabs rely on God

of Lancaster is a sinecure Ministerial themselves."

office which Fish is a standard food in this

is often the "umbrella" near pre-war strength, but much

and

While the world. was awaiting d It has been modernised; Colony and anything that can be

When the thousands of refugees reply to the United Nations truce we treaming from the stricken for other important Government or Ashermen, under the marketing

about a bigger to bring

duties. dane

Cabinet offer, fighting in Palestine continu- scheme, aro receiving

Field will be the means of giving generous

town, buses, lorries and private cars

As a member of the Cabinet, free that reporting ed. Tel-Aviv, enal returns for their labours: further stimulus to an already

took them to temporary rehabilita She presided with complete con- Jewish fighter planes were active It is to ba ladustry.

tion along educational lines, too, there

centres. Four lorry-loads of of departmental responsibilities, Mr. Adence for two hours. Her only ro- for the first time yesterday over has been impressive progress.

med that any valuable al

gret was that her husband, who is

the northern Palestine, area around food donated by private citizens Dalton will help in the work of the

were distributed.

Cabinet generally and he will be with schools established for the

coveries made by the researchi

also

available to undertake any special a. Member of

enemy Parliament, Tulkarom, said that one fisherfolk's children, an well

Will Inntilute

bo, unreservedly

could not be present-Reuler.

Spitfire was seen to explode in mid- Private families in the Portland duties which may be allotted to him Fisheries Benfor Claus

placed at the disposal of

nir. Aberdeen where fisheries, naviga- colonial governments for the

TYPHOON VEERS

The Israelf nghters bombed Arab are joined with the Red Cross, from time to time by the Prime tlon, meteorology and other purpose of adapting any now

communications and hit four Arab churches, city agencies and others to Minister.

care for the thousands of refugees. In recent times, the Chancellor related subjects are added to the

technique

Cots were set up in schools, ship of the Duchy of Lancaster has normal syllabus.

Hongkong, on its part, may well

Manila, May 31.-The storm which Sherman tanks, the communique

the planes also at churches, and other buildings. said, adding

carried with it Ministerial respon- be in a posliion to supply useful eloquent Illustration of the swift

was first observed forming close to

incked Egyptian positions near

President Truman has proclaimed sibility for the British-occupied Mr Allca has not yet decided on information to the research in- and advance of Hong- recovery

mutual

800 miles east of Suringo Strolt had Ramley, southeast of Tel-Aviv, kong's fishing industry that local aillute, and thus by a

skirted the eastern sea coast of the British military sources in Hallo, the flood-swept North-West area of Zone of Germany, but today It was what Bir Dalton's duties will be. It at is stated that no alteration will be of new exchange

knowledge fresh ah is now being exported

Philippine archipelago well out to the British evacuation inclave, sald the United States a "disaster arca" announced that the Chancellor

bo and has ordered the use of surplus the Duchy will no longer have this made in the present arrangements based Manila, while considerable

on observailen and ex-

for co-ordination of economic affairs, Arabs were reported to sea, the Philippine Weather Bureau the

for relief and re- job. of quantities

sailed fishtaro periment, fishing Industries,

announced today.

burning what is left of the smash war properly

The administration of the British which will continue to be handled by. habilitation. here and elsewhere. .can gain despatched to areas in the South

Having veered its original course, ed Jewish quarter of the Old City "annitury

Mr Calvin Hulbert, a flying Zones in Germany and Austria will the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir China Sea. It is because Hour- considerable benefis

it is now off Batanes, it was added, of Jerusalem as

structor, described in Portland 10- remain within the general respon- Stafford Cripps.-Itcuter. Router,

mensure." Reuter.

of

to

A

ABT nt

'an

to

dis-

the

Members of all sidea gave a wel coming cheer as Mrs Patona triin bespectacled figure in a neat black costume with a white bloure-took

over.

t

Normally, the Chancellorinip of the Duchy carries a salary of £3,- 08 0 000 a year, but' Mr Dailon, member of the Cabinet, will get C0.000.

Mr. Dalton's return to the Govern- ment fulls the general prediction that his eclipse would be temporary. The Chancellor's spontaneous con--

mons Immediately after the fession of fault to the House of Com "leakago" incident and his prompt resignation produced a widespread feeling of dismay.