PRE-TRUCE LULL FELT

Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1948, Page 5

PRE-TRUCE LULL FELT

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-Reuter,

No lajor Fighting Roporled In Palestine

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Reeeived Friday, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, June 10. The Arabs would resume tjie War in Palestine if the Jews did not respect the truce conditions, if the' Jews insisted on the creation of aZionist- State or if no agreement was re.ached safeguarding Palestine's sovereignty, the SecretaryGeneral of the Arab League, A-zzam Pas'ha, said -in Cairo today. An Israel Army spokesman in Tel Aviv said that the latest word from the Palestine battlefronts showed that the pre-truee luil was already being felt. j§everal rninor encounters had been r.eported, but no major activity. .. The United Nations mediator. Count Bernadotte, said in Cairo that reports that Israel's Foreign Minister, Mr. Moshe Shertok, hadasked for a modification of -the truce terms affeeting immigration were complete nonsense. The Jewish acceptance was uneo-nditional and unaccompanied by any request. Major-General Vikinsr Thainm, of Sweden, a former instructor of the Abyssinian Army and Count Bernadotte's elose friend, is expected to arrive in Palestine soon to supervlse 20 eontrol points to be established to check the truce agreement. x Italy %as deeided to ban the emi-'" gration of combatants and the export of arms from Italy to Palestine during the cease fir-e. Count Bernadotte announced that he had postponed his departure for Jerusalem and would now ily to Amman.