TERRORISTS BUYING ARMS FROM U.S.

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5296, 8 January 1947, Page 5

TERRORISTS BUYING ARMS FROM U.S.

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BRITISH COMPLA'INT ieaders comment on london conference

-Rec. 9.80 p.m.)

LONDON, Jan. 7. Two men smashed two panes ( x glass, gas mantles and a nrtice board at the synagogue in Bayswater last night. Severai •Nndows were broken at the v, illesden synagogue during the week-end. Biitain flas again directed the a:;. ention of the Ameriean State Dei : rtment to the appearance in 1 nerie&n niwspapers of advertiser-' nts solieiting funds for the terror- '• . ■•'- in Palestine, say's Reuter's dip1 :natic correspondent. The British 4- rnhassador, Lord Inverchapel, disi --•sed the matter with the Secretary "{> State, Mr. Byrnes, during the v. eek-end. The correspondent says

■ r-i'nt information suggests that wrorists are buying arms with \merican funds. The advertise•nnits emphasise that contributions :>re fre-.* of income tax. The High Commissioner in Palesiue, Lieutenant-General Sir Alan unningham, to-day continued con-.-"utatirns with the Colonial Minister, M -. Greech-Jones. Reuter says it is understoad they did not discuss the "mposition of nmrtial law in PalesLie, as had heen suggested in sorne ,-arters, but continued the diseusion beguu when Field-Marshal Montuncry was present of energetic uilitary aetion to be taken under v? political direction o-f the High ' v.nniissioner should it be necessary to counter the revival of terrorism. Reuter's Paris correspondent says that Mr. Peter Bergson, chairman of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, said ihe commhtee hoped next month io proclaim a declaration of inderendeisce for Palestine and estabi sh a government which could present the Palestine problem to fhe United Nations court. The CoRirnittee would ask for a decis;on on "Brit.ain's occupation of Palestine under an expired mancate." 3Ir. Bergson deelared that future essions of the London conference wre doomed to failure. Britain !-• a major disputant was not eligible to sponsor co-nferences, but should ■noet Jews and Arabs on an equal .'ooting in a confcj'ence ealled by 'hance or America. Arabs Will Noi Accept Partition At Ilaifa, King Abdulla of Trans .s'ordan, has said that the Arabs w mld never escape any partition of !h lcstine. The British Government t!iay discuss the Palestine question oii Thursday to help pave the way ; r the London Conference later this month. Five masked men, believed to he terrorists of the Jewish illegal organisation, held up a Jewish Agency car a few hours after a warning against terrorism in Palestine had heen given by the Haganah. The driver of the car was questioned but later allowed to go.