SITUATION EASIER IN JERUSALEM

Grey River Argus, 6 September 1948, Page 5

SITUATION EASIER IN JERUSALEM

(Received September 5, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 4. Colonel Bernadotte, U.N.O. mediator, announced in Rhodes that both Jewish and Arab forces to-day began to withdraw from Jerusalem’s neutral Red Cross area. It was officially announced in Amman that Jews had agreed to enlarge the Red Cross zone in Jerusalem and to withdraw from the Jewish Agricultural School and from the existing neutral zone supervised by the United Nations officials. The Hebrew newspaper “Tonion,” reports that Arabs and Jews in Negev, Southern Palestine, played a friendly football match—after the players had searched each* other for hidden weapons. Egyptian officers suggested the game to the Jews,'who at first were suspicious, but later they agreed to the game and the search, which did not reveal any weapons. The Israel team won, 5-1. Then the Arabs invited them over for a cup of coffee “one of these days.”

INCREASE OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS (Received Sentembei’ 5.<.5.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sent. 4. The United States State Department has announced the partial relaxation of the restrictions on the immigration of refugees of military age to Palestine from the American zones in Germany and Austria. The Department has made public a Note from the Israeli Government protesting against the stoppage of immigration of men in the 18 to 45 years age group.