MUCH BLOOD WILL BE SHED

Chronicle (Levin), 11 March 1948, Page 5

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Received Thursday, 9.55 a.m. ' , LONDON, March 10. "The world has almost no. couception of how much blood will be shed here when the British have gone/Xsaid MajorGeneral H. R. Stockwell, commander of -the British troops in Northern Palestine, in an interview with the British United Press correspondent at Haifa. \ "It is shocking" for me to contemplate it. The only way : to avoid this blood.shed is to have an armed po-lice force of at least 59,000 troops to disarjm b.oth the Arabs and Jews. It would take a force six months to do the job/' said General .Stockwell. •

Mr. -Creech Jones, moving in the Hffiise of .Commons today, the second reading of the Ralestine Bill providing for the handing over of the Palestine Mandate' said, "I don't, believe that after our bitter ■and tragic experience, that the British public would tolerate any new commitment in Palestine." Mr. Creech Jones said th^ British had tcied to create cOnditions for the continuanc.e of orderly life in Palestine. If the Uniterd Nations Palestine Commission was unable to undertake its responsrbility we would be confronted by a new situation. "Britain would withdraw with profound disappointment. The British people had given much for the f ulfilment of their internafcional responsibiiities. They shouid not be asked to endure more. "It is now for others to find and implement the , solution which elu'ded us." Reuter's Jerusalem correspondent reports that two British policemen who absconded with arms to jo'in the Arab guerrillas were killed at Nablus yesterday while trying to render safe a lorry load of .explosives. The . Arabs buried the two men with fuli military honours.