GREAT INRUSH OF JEWS 10 PALESTINE

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1948, Page 5

GREAT INRUSH OF JEWS 10 PALESTINE

(Rec. 10.45) LONDON, Aug. 10 Thirty thousand European Jews have arrived in Israel since the middle of May. It has been announced that six hundred thousand more Jews will be brought into Palestine under a mass migration scheme, which is to begin immediately. The Times Tel Aviv correspondent says: This plan is to tranship to and settle in Palestine each month, ten thousand Jewish migrants. The plan has already been prepared in co-oper-ation with an American joint distribution committee, which committee has guaranteed to pay the transport costs. Zionists Welcome Soviet’s Support And Diplomat (Received August dO, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. The arrival in Tel Aviv yesterday (Monday) of Pavel Yersh|ov, the first Soviet Minister, and the first diplomatic representative of a major Power to take up a post 'in the State of Israel, has been marked with pro-Russian editorial comment and' many Communist posters in the streets of Tel Aviv, says the "Daily Telegraph’s correspondent at Tel Aviv. The Israeli Government’s official newspaper, “Davar,” has stressed that there was Russian support for Israel during the diplomatic wrangles at Lake Success. But the paper also recalled the persecution of Zionists in Russia. "Popular sentiment in Israel is undoubtedly overwhelmingly pro-Rus-sian, the correspondent adds, “but the Communism of the type practised in Russia has a strictly limited appeal. The Communist Party in Israel is small, numbering only a few hundred members, but it is extremely active.” INDICATIONS ARE FOR RENEWAL OF WAR NEW YORK, Aug. 9. The U.N.O. mediator, Count Bernadotte in his report to the secuity Council to-day said: “Palestine is tense, due to a general fear of imminent renewal of war.” He described Jerusalem , as “particularly tense,” with skirmishing continuing. He had warned the Arabs and the Jews that any attack beyond the limits of self-defence would be regarded as a truce violation.