FOUR-WEEK TRUCE IS AGREED TO

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1948, Page 5

FOUR-WEEK TRUCE IS AGREED TO

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Arabs and Jews

LONDON, June 1. The Arab League and Israel have informed the Security Council ol their acceptance of the council’s four weeks’ cease.-fire order. Faris el Khoury, the Syrian delegate and president of the Security Council for this month, received a cablegram from the Arab States, declaring an acceptance, and promising a detailed reply' later. Israel said it agreed to the cease-fire unconditionally, but recorded its interpretation of’the letter and spirit of the council’s resolution. . To-day, Count Bernadotte, the United Nations mediator, left Antman for Cairo, after conferring witn King Abdullah and the Transjordan Prime Minister, Tewflk Pasha Abulhuda. -i CAIRO, June 1. , The Egyptian Prime Minister (Nokrashy Pasha) said yesterday that the Security Council’s proposal was likely to be accepted by the Arabs. He favoured a truce. Provided certain conditions were fulfilled, it would be better if a solution were reached. He added: “Things have changed since we rejected last week s United Nations cease-fire order. Our armies are victorious and the new cease-fire conditions are better than the first ones. We cannot be rigid all the time.” Jews Want to Continue Influx of Migrants (Rec. 10.10) LONDON, June 2. According to a British United Press message from Cairo, the Prime Minister of Egypt. Nokrashy Pasha, said that the Jewish . demand, for the continued admission of immigrants into Palestine was not acceptable to Egypt. JEWS WANT TO IMPOSE CONDITIONS The Jewish Provisional Government announced that it has ordered all the Jewish forces to cease fire at 3 am., Palestine time, tomorrow, provided the Arabs did likewise. The order was given on the assumption.— (1) The ban on Arab import of arms shall apply to the delivery of arms from stocks owned or controlled by foreign Powers within the Arab States. , x j (2) Neither side will s,eek to advance beyond the present positions. (3) Freedom of access to Jerusalem for food and other essentials. (4) Any attempt to stop or impede the 'normal transport of goods to Israel will be regarded as an act of armed force. Isreal Permier Arrives in France from America (Rec. 11.0) • LONDON, June 2. Reuter’s correspondent at Paris says: Doctor Weizmann, the Prime Minister in the Israel Provisional Government, who has for some time been staying in New York, has arrived in France, at Cherbourg from America. He said he was “tired and ill.” He is to stay in France for a fortnight before proceeding to Israel via Switzerland. Egyptian Attacks in South and Centre (Rec. 11.50) LONDON, June 2. Israel military headquarters in Tel Aviv said that Egyptian troops violated the cease-fire order to-day when they attacked Negab, on the southern front. The headquarters also claimed that aircraft bombed Hulda on the central front. JEWS BOMB ARAB CAPITAL Jewish bombers raided the capital of Transjordan, the city of Amman. A number of aircraft on the ground were damaged. The British military authorities in the citv said that 12 Arabs were killed and 30 injured. There was no military casualty. There is indignation at the Royal Palace over the attack against Arab civilians. The raid consisted of about four flights over the city, only one plane being seen each time. About 10 bombs were dropped. Two women were arrested on suspicion of signalling to the raiding plane after the police had saved them from an angry crowd. In Amman, bitterness has reached a high pitch over the Jewish bombin'’'. ■ Arab sentiment there appears to"be consolidating behind the advocates of all-out prosecution of the war against Zionism. Arab Success in Siege of Tel Aviv LONDON, June 1. The Arab semi-circle is tightening around Tel Aviv and communiques from both Arabs and Jews indicate, a major battle is brewing alono- the 40-mile front from Jerusalem northwestwards to Tulkarem. An Iraqui communique says Iraqi troops stand around Tel Aviv in a half-circle, seven to nine miles from the city. Iraqi units occupied Kalkileh, 15 miles north-east of Tel Aviv and also a Jewish settlement ten ’miles east of Tel Aviv. Arab irregulars and Iraquis have recaptured the main pumping station of Ras el Ain, on the water pipeline to Jerusalem, seven miles from Tel Aviv, and the Jews acknowledge this. The Arab communique says: The enemy were forced to retreat in panic from Kean Yona, on the Tel Aviv-Haifa road, leaving a number of dead and injured. The Kaganah commander was killed. Iraqi bombers heavily attacked Merhavya, a Jewish settlement to the south of Nazareth, damaging a number o. enemy armoured cars and guns and forcing the Haganah to withdraw. Jewish forces attacked several places along the line in an attempt to block the Arab threat to Tel Aviv. A Jewish communique reports air attacks on the western fringe of the “Arab triangle” held by Iraqi troops and on Arab concentrations near Latrun and Deir Ayoub, on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road. Jewish forces occupied the village of Beithtima, south-east of El Mejdel. ' ' Jews shot down an Arab Spitfire in an air battle over Tulkarem Jews bombed four Arab tanks and other targets. Arab sources report Egyptian forces are attacking all the Jewish colonies on the Palestine coast between Ashdod and Tel AviV. Egyptian Dianes bombed the Jewish town of'Reboboth and left it in flames, and set fire to hangars at Acre airport. English General’s Widow Takes Pro-Jewish Altitude LONDON, May 31. Mrs Lorna Wingate, widow of the Chindit leader, Major - General

Charles Wingate, has promised to send their only son now four years old, to Israel, according to a Jewish Agency announcement in London. The Agency quotes Mrs Wingate as saying in Tel Aviv: “If I had gold and money I would contribute them for the war which my husband foresaw. Not having them, I have decided to send my son to Palestine to be educated as a loyal son of both Israel and r The U Wingates were not of Jewish origin. Mrs Winkate went to Palestine for the declaration of the Jewish State. While there she. fulfilled her husband’s wish by flying over the small settlement of Mitzamm, in central Palestine, and dropping there .-.n inscribed Bible which Major-General Wingate promised the settlement. She was With Major-General Wingate when he spent some years with the British forces in Palestine in the ’thirties. Both became interested m Zionism. WASHINGTON; June 1. Diplomatic authorities said to-day that both Arabs and Jews are trying to buy arms in Czechoslovakia, it is understood that light arms and ammunition from the famous Skoda works are particularly desired.