SURPRISE AT PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT

Chronicle (Levin), 4 July 1946, Page 5

SURPRISE AT PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT

Received Thursday, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, July 3. President Truman's announce ment that the United States wa willing to arrange to pay for th transport of 100,000 Jews in Europ to Palestine has not yet been offi cially communicated to the Brhisi Government. There is no officia comment, but, says the Presi Association, there is, unofficially surprise that President Trumar should ha.ve said what he did whil the Palestine negotiations were no completed. Transport does no represent a problem, as it hat alwayj been understood tha America was providing it. The Press Association adds that the Jews certainly will ngt go unti Britain arranges that they may enter. Yet another great arms dump has been found at Mershek Yagur settlenient and British correspondents at Ilaifa tell of the remarkable efficiency and cunning disclosed liv the militarv searches. The Daily Telegraph 's correspondent watched British troops search oue dump in a conerete lined cellar under a shed about which suspicions were aroused by the fact tliat it had two air. vents while the air-com-pressor had a pipe leading into the floor. When this was removed two kevs were found. "VVhen one kev was tuvned a slab of concrete under a piece 'of niachiuery in the shed began a descent slowly, providing a nieehanical trapdoor whieh, after passing through three feet of concrete gave on to a small passage leading to subterranean chambefs Tined witli .Shelves containiug ammunitiort, explosives and arms. A. trolley on* rails ran from the trapdoor: to the ehamber for easy transport of the equipment.. While the correspoudcnt v/atched 150 rifles of Britisli, Canadian and Gernian origin were removed with tens of thousands of rounds of rifle and machine-gun bullets and two-incli mortars of German type. American rifles and grenades were concealed in beetcans sealed with wax.