ARABS OPPOSED TO ANY PARTITION

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 5

ARABS OPPOSED TO ANY PARTITION

(Press Assn.-

palestine pkoblem evacuation of british subjects commences

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LONDON, Feb. 4. The Arab delegations at the Palestine conference in London definitely rejected any form of partition, and the conference adjourned indefinitely. Meanwhile the evacuation of nearly 2000 British women and children and a number of non-essential men began this morning in Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jaffa. 4 Tearful goodbyes and confusion uiarked the evacuation. Wives and faniilies gathered at military centres in the tva -uation towns. The evaeuees travelled in army convoy *aanner. Police i»'sts vvere established every mile ali'iiL' tlie road- from Jerusalem to Saral'aml, from where after staying oi- I'vu uights the great majority will iir llown in four-engined bombers j„ Esrypt. T!it' lb'\al Air Poive announced timi tlu- ti i llights of 10 Halifaxes aviisltl irilvt- off early to-morrow, each planc ■•ai ryin.a' 1 7 .passengers. The muvi'iiiciit iii families is expected to he i-unipleted by nightfall, when the, Pale.-tinc Government hopes that all the eva.-aei's vvill be in Sarafand or Haifa i-amps awaiting evacuation by plai'.e. traiu or ship. The Sapreme Court again refused tlu. ajjjdi -aiion by Gruner's lawyer for leave to ntipeal to the Privy Council, ku L'uw the lawyer permission to ciiiuiiamifatc* directly with the Privy i-mim-il. -.\iiirh he has done by cable.

Jew ish Stale Rejected The ' oniiiumique issued ai'ter the Palestine miiference London announcinjr that the. Arabs rejected partition also state i that the Arabs "could not consider the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine." Reuter understaiuls titai Mr. Bevin early in the omfeivn.v told the delegates that the Giivennueti! had not decided on any pai'tirular •vheme. Thevefore. the Governim'tii otui neither accepted nor reicvtel siai'tition. Viscount Hall in a statement in the Ilouse of Lords on Palestine said all children and women, includitiKe teachers, but excluding nurses, were being evucu'ated immediately.. The (h vernment had advised husinessmeii to go. Missionaries and iloetors woukl remain. Jnunialists had heen told that if they ehose to stay the Government w ouhl not be responsible for their saiety. At the same time, he added. the Government of Britain and Palestine '.veiy aware of Ihe "vital importanee" oi .ireventing' the dissemination of ;mt:-Br:tish propaganda and hostile i'tuiiuurs Fortresses Established To Fight Ferronsts LONDOjN, February 3. British troops have handed the inhabitants, totalling several thousaud, of three residential quarters in Jeritsali'ta. notices to quit their hottses within 48 hours, says the Uaily Telegraph Jerusalem correspondent. The places vacated will buse troops, essential eivilians and possibly correspondents. The a.-t-as are firstly, Itahavia liousinu mainly wealthy Jews; >ecoii(l!y. imuses mainly around the Jewish-Syrian Orphanage; thirdly. part «sf :-u* German colony, which is mostly Arai) and foreign. These atea-, with the Russian eompiiuml. v.n\\ hq.tsing; police headquartHsanii t r- Pt.st OlTice, will oonstitute fuar ite.i' ily-g'uarded fortresses to diieii ;ei;ii>-ion will be only by pass. Authorities told a protesting Jewidi delogation that the army had made iip its mind that the.se reslrielP(l tuul euarded areas were essential I'or an idTective war against the kriorisU.