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Agency Refutes Rumors
Of Haganah-Irgun Merger
caster asked "how did Jewish de-
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Soviet Deputy Foreign Min- fense arms get into the hands of
ister Andrei A. Gromyko said
Arab bands?" It said that the two
in a United Press interview last
dead Arabs were well known
week that "somebody is incit- leaders of Arab terrorist units
tug the Arab people in Pales- during the '36-'39 outbreaks, and
tine and not only in Palestine," gave their names as Muhammed
adding that the current blood-
Saleh Halai and Abdullah el
shed in Palestine "must be
Kurd.
stopped in the interests of
The broadcast also said that
peace, including peace in the
Arab bands operating around Je-
Middle East." He said he did rusalem had planned to invade
not believe that the current in- the Jewish quarters of the Old
citement "is in the interests of
City and wipe out the inhabi-
the Jewish or the Arab people."
tants, but had been repulsed by
(That the Russians are sincere the Haganah. It repeated its
to their support of the UN Pales- warning to the population to be-
tine decision is indicated in a re- ware of British spies, who, it
port received by The Jewish News said, were posing as members of
from Istanbul, Turkey. The re- the Haganah and seeking vital
port states that the Russian radio information.
continually broadcast radio warn- Truce Broken When Jew Killed
ings to • the Turks not to • oppose A truce between the Jewish
the partition plan and reiterating town of Helen, south of Tel Aviv,
that Russia strongly supports the and neighboring Arab villages,
solution).
which was negotiated under dra-
Special Cable to The Jewish News
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Settlements Mobilized
LONDON. (JTA) — Reports
reaching here from Jerusalem
state that the Jewish Agency has
ordered women and children to
be evacuated from 50 settlements
in the Negev and Jordan Valley
and to have the settlements
"cleared for action."
The report adds that Jewish
settlements throughout the coun-
try were ordered to give priority
to the safety of children. Barbed
wire entanglements are to be con-
structed around nurseries.
Yagur, which was the scene of
the killing of two Jewish truck
drivers Sunday, by Arab bands,
Monday again witnessed violence
when Arab snipers fired on Jew-
ish vehicles and were engaged in
battle by •Haganah members who
killed three Arabs.
Plea for Aden Jews
NEW YORK (JTA)—The World
Jewish Congress cabled to Lord
Inverchapel, British Ambassador
to the U. S., demanding that his
government act to prevent furth-
er attacks on Jews in the British
protectorate of Aden where '75
Jews were killed in Arab riots.
The Congress disclosed that it
received a cable from the Aden
Jewish community stating that
violence was renewed and ap-
pealed for immediate assistance.
matic circumstances yesterday
through the intervention of the
local British district commission-
er, was broken this morning.
Arab snipers killed one Jew and
wounded another.
The truce, originally set to al-
low the Arabs to evacuate ill and
Interpret Arab Action
As Extremists' Defeat
CAIRO, (JTA)—The bellicose,
but vague statement issued here
at the conclusion of the 10-day
session of the Arab League Coun-
cil on Palestine was being inter-
preted by informed observers as
an indication that the Arab states
have not rejected the principle
of partition per se. The communi-
que dwelt on the inequities in the
1.IN General Assemblypartition 4
plan, aria aici nut sp-sii out op-
position to any partition scheme
as such.
Arab moderates greeted the
communique with relief, while
extremists, such as the fanatical
Moslem League, were disappoint-
ed. In an apparent attempt to
explain away the communique's
vagueness, Abdul Rahman Azzam
Pasha, secretary-general of the
Arab League, said today that the
conferees had arrived at 17 de-
cisions which were not being re-
vealed in order that the Zionists
might not make capital of them.
Deny Haganah-Irgun Merger
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Jewish Agency denied reports
circulating throughout Palestine
that intensive negotiations have
been proceeding for a merger of
the Haganah and the Irgun.
A Haganah broadcast charged
that arms found on two Arabs
killed in an exchange with a
Haganah patrol in the vicinity
of the Hebrew University had
been earlier seized from Haganah
by the British police. The broad-
aged- persons from the no-man's
land around Holon and to enable
the Jews to search for the body
of a_Holon resident who had been
killed in a skirmish several days
ago, was extended for what was
intended to be an indefinite pe-
riod when the Arab and Jewish
mayors agreed to the commis-
sioner's suggestion.
It was reported that Emil
Ghouri, a leading member of the
Arab Higher Committee, was
manhandled by an Arab crowd
last Saturday when he arrived
at the scene of an explosion near
Damascus gate where an .Irgun
grenade killed several Arabs.
Shouting "you're to blame for
this," the angered Arabs beat up
both Ghouri and his bodyguard.
Seize Lebanese Arabs
Jewish settlement police at the
Dan settlement on Palestine's
northern border arrested three
Lebanese Arabs, one possessing
arms, on lands belonging to the
colony. This is the first confirma-
tion of reports that Lebanese
have been making their way into
Palestine to join guerrilla bands.
The Arab press almost daily
reports "successful desertions" of
Arab policemen who take arms
and ammunition with them when
they flee to join roving gangs - of
gunmen.
Several planes circled the skies
above Negev settlements, first
taking out wounded and sick peo-
ple to hospitals and dropping Sup-
plies because all roads to the col-.
onies have been cut and, second-
ly, searching for the Arab guer-
rillas in an attempt to ferret out
their hideouts and to estimate the
strength of the units. The planes
had a visible effect on the Be-
douins, who scattered in fear of
possible air raids.
Congressman Attacks U.S.
Support of Partition
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Uni-
ted States support of partition
at the UN General Assembly was
attacked in a speech on the House
floor by Rep. Lawrence H. Smith
of Wisconsin. He announced that
he plans to introduce a resolution,
in the coming session of Congress
authorizing "a full and complete
investigation of the acts of pub-
lic. officials and private citizens
in the lobby for the partition of
Palestine." Rep. Smith is a mem-
ber of the Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee.
Rep. Smith declared that the
situation in Palestine is more
of a threat to American security
than that in Greece • and Turkey,
so far as ,Russian interest in Pal-
estine is concerned, and warned
that the United States will be
compelled to send troops there
to implement the Assembly's de-.
cision.
Rep. Jacob K. Javits of New
York denied that the United
States had been requested to
send troops . and declared that
"the Jewish people of Palestine
show every willingness to fight
and die themselves for what they
believe in." Rep. Smith based
his assertion, he said, on certain
"radio commentators" who stated
that "certain Zionists are about
to request the U.S." for military
support.
Arabs in Mexico Threaten Jews
MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—Arabs -
in Mexico City are spreading a
rumor that the murder here of
a Jew is "the beginning of Arab
revenge" for the establishment of
a Jewish State in Palestine.
The Jew, Solomon Sikri, was
found dead in Honduras St., the
Arab commercial center of the
city.
Discuss Admission of DP's
MUNICH, (JTA) — Dr. Chaim
Hoffman, Jewish Agency direc-
tor in Germany and Austria, left
for Paris and Palestine where he
will confer with Jewish Agency
leaders on drawing up priorities
under which displaced Jews will
be moved from Europe to the
Jewish state.
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