MORE TERRORISM FEARE[?]

Chronicle (Levin), 20 January 1947, Page 5

MORE TERRORISM FEARE[?]

Press Assn

Twelve British Army Vehiclet Reported Missing

SECURITY FORCES ON ALERT

By Telegrciph

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Reeeived Sunday, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 19. Secnritv forces m Jerusalem were placed 011 the alert I'ollowing reports that twelve Pritish Army vehicles were missing. Thefts oi vehicles usually precede terrorisi aetivity. The army describes the mine which the sappers removecl from ihe road near Jerusalem after cars carrying General Sir Alan fJunningham and later the Jewisli leader Mr. Ben-Gurion had passeo over as the biggest ever l'ound in Palestine. Nineteen Ihs. of nails, bolts and scrap-irou were paekeu' j'ound 50 11). of geliguite in a i'onr gallon petroi can. An earlier message stated that troops discovered miites on the main Lydda-Jerusalem road a few hours after Ihe iligh Commissioner ((ieneral Sir Alan Cunningham) travellecl over it, says tlie Daily Telegraph 's Jerusalem correspondent. Ile added tha! (Ieneral Oiuminghain, who returned by air from London today, looked very cheerful after his tnlk with the chairman of the Jewish Agency execulive (Mr. Ben-Gurion) at British headquarters. Wlien the Palestine Conference is resunied on Tuosdav, says The Times' diplomat ic correspondent, two ]iroposals will slill lie on the table, namely, Ihe British plan for iargely autononions Arab and Jewisli provinees nnder a Central (ioverinneiit and the Aral.i counter-proposal for an indejiendent Palestine State with sperial guarantees for .Jevtish riglits but with a hau on Jewisli i miii igrat ion. Tlie British plan is virtually dettd. It was speedily and une(|tii vocally rejected by Jew and Arai) alike, and, the correspondent says, there can be no real intention of putting it forward again as :i solution. The Arai) plan awaits ollicial British coniment, but as it represents ti eontinuutioii of the 1989

White Paper anv ho]ie oi tts heing found worktible seems faint. Tlie attendance at the conference, the correspondent adds, will be the sanie tis it was in the autumn except tliat tlie British Governineut 's representatives (Messrs Bevin and ( Teecii-J ones and Sir Nonnan Brook) and tlie represenlatives of the seven Arab States will be joined by a delegation of Palestinian Arabs. Xo Jewish delegates, ticcording to the latest iiiforinai ion, will be present which in tuni appears to mean that there will be no I'nited States observers at the conference. .Mr. Byrnes in his statenieirt of Deceniber 6 urging Jewisli and Arai) attendance proniised that the Pnited States would send observers if thev agreed to attend. Tliis jiromise presuniably no longer holds.