FIGHTING STILL UNHALTED

Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1948, Page 5

FIGHTING STILL UNHALTED

(N.Z.P.A.-

-Reuter,

U.N. Mediator Trying To Implement Cease Fire

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Received Friday, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Jime 3. • The Arabs and Jews are still fighting in Palestine as the United Nations mediator, Count Bernadotte, attempts to arrange the implementation of the four-weeks' cease fire, which both sides have accepted. Correspondents on the spot say that every hour's delay will make it more difficult to halt the fighting siftce both sides are ,already disgruntled by earlier misunderstandings on the truce.

' At the United Nations many officials balieve that there i's little prospect that the cease. fire will remain in effect for the full four weeks, and some delegates are doubtful whether it will become eftective at all. They say that a deadlock over the creation of a separate Jewish State is almost inevitable. Cables' from Palestine and Arab centres disclose little change in the miP.tary "position today. Egyptian forc.es were 22 miles south of Tel Aviv and Iraqis eight miles north of it. The Jews claim that they hold the whole of western Galilee and have advance'd on thet north ern front against the Syrians. The battles of Jerusalem and Latrun on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Road continue. Mcchanised Iraqi units attacke'd Nathanya and Iraqi aircraft attacked military factories at Petach Tikvah, Arab planes bombed Tel Aviv and its suburbs, and killed a number of people at Rishon. south of the city. Jewish official sources say that Jewish fighters shot down a twinengined Egyptian bomber over Rehovoth tonight.