British Reinforced In Jerusalem

Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1948, Page 5

British Reinforced In Jerusalem

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Steps Taken To Control Trpuble Spots

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Reeeived Thursday, 10.25' a.m. JERUSALEM, May 5. / ' British mechanised.reinforcements from Egypt arrived in Jerusalem today. Six heavy tanks led a long procession of armoured vehicles into the security. zone. The Marine Commandos took over the police barracks on Mount Scopus, northeast of Jerusalem, from which they can Gontrol trouble ^pots along the Ramallah Road. , Meanwhile, Mr. Richard Stubbs, Palestme Government information officer, told a Press conference that the prospects for a truce in Palestine "look good."

Quiet continued 111 Jerusalem on Tuesday after the 48 hours' eease-lire had passed and with British troops beginning to enter the city, there is some prospect that the quiet will eontinue, acconling to The Times' Jerusalem correspondent. The difficxilty now, he says, is to follow the many threads of negotiations on the eity's ' future. Not onlv are there talks at Lake Gxiecess bxxt also in Jerusalem, lirstly, h;v the Government with the Arabs and Jews; secondly, by the Red Gross with all three; and thirdly, by the Consular Truce Commission. These again are divided into those dealing with the ohl city and the new. Ilagannali lias proclaimed a eease fxre in the old city but the Arabs who are in the vast majority there, have said nothiug. The Red Gross is now interested in putting all Jerusalem as a neutral city under its fiag. The British will hardlv object but the attitude ot' the Jews :qnl Arabs and the question of supplies, have to be claritied. Most oi' these uegotiations, the correspondent poiuts out, centre upon a cessation oi lxostilities but the eity's future government bas still to be settled. Uuless a new UXO Commxssioii comes at the last. mimite, the citv's administ ration must pass largely into Jewish hands.