ARABS CONFER ON PALESTINE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 7

ARABS CONFER ON PALESTINE

The correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” at Bludan, the village near Damascus where the delegates of the Arab League countries are meeting, says that the Arab League Council has decided to consult Britain about submitting the Palestine situation to the United Nations. The Council has also empowered the Secretary-General of the Arab League (Azzam Pasha) to request the Big Four Foreign Ministers to Invite the League to participate in all projected inquiries into Tripoli and Cyrenaica. Azzam Pasha said that if those regions were to be placed under trusteeship the League claimed the right to exercise it. “The Arab League Council is now considering plans to call an Arab People’s Congress as the third in a series of Arab political manifestations against the Palestine Committee’s report,” said Reuter’s correspondent in Damascus. “The intention is to demonstrate the full rejection of the report by the

Arab Kings. Governments, and peoples. The Arab Kings have already met In Egypt and the Governments are at present meeting at Bludan. “Jamal Hussein!, secretary of the Palestine Arab Committee, who sponsored the proposal, suggested that the congress should meet in Bagdad in the autumn. "The council’s political sub-commit-tee rejected a proposal to establish a provisional Arab Government of Palestine to conduct the ‘defence’ of Palesting from one of the neighbouring Arab countries.” Armed bands. Including a number of women, derailed three trains in Palestine, the engines of which were blown up. They held up the Jeru-salem-Jaffa train between Sarafand and Tel Aviv and ordered the passengers off. Tbicv then detached the engine, exploded it with a mine, and set the carriages on Are. British Air-borne Division troops in low-flying Royal Air Force aeroplanes are searching for the perpetrators.