Friday, January 16, 1948

Page Three

THE JEWISH NEWS

Outline UN Commission's Four-Fold Task in Zion

Provisional Government
Must Be in Action April 1

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(Continued from Page 1)
pany the body to Palestine. The
"I trust, and I know you trust, appointment indicates the inten-
that • this appeal, which repre-,. tion of the UN Secretariat to place
sents the will of the vast major- its top ranking officials at the
ity of the members of the United disposition of the Commission.
Nations,* will not go unheeded,"
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he said. He outlined the following Haganah Retaliation
as the most difficult tasks con- Batters Arab Guerrillas
(By Direct Wire to the Jewish News)
fronting the Commission:
JERUSALEM. (JTA) — Laying
1. The establishment of the
frontiers of the Arab and Jewish down a barrage from a strong
states and the city of Jerusalem in battery of field mortars, whose
accordance with the general lines explosions rocked the city, Haga-
Of the Assembly's recommenda- nah demolished at least 20 houses
in the Sheikh Jarach quarter of
tions on partition.
2. The progressive assumption Jerusalem and, at least tempo-
of responsibility for the adminis- rarily, wiped out a strong point
tration of Palestine as the Man- from which Arab guerrillas had
datory Power evacuates the coun- cut the road to Hadassah hospi-
try, pending the establishment of tal, the Hebrew university and
the Jewish cemetery on the Mount
the independent states.
3. The establishment of Provi- of Olives.
At dawn Tuesday, Haganah
sional Councils of Government in
the Arab and Jewish states and scouts opened heavy fire on the
the direction of their activities quarter in order to draw the fire
of the Arabs and thus locate the
in the transitional period.
4. The approval of election reg- position of the snipers. After the
ulations governing democratic scouts had withdrawn, the mor-
elections to Constittent Assem- tars opened up, demolishing vir-
blies in each state; and the ap- tually all of the Arabs nests. A
pointment of the Preparatory Eco- reconnaissance squad, which en-
nomic Commission which is to tered the quarter after the bar-
pave the way' for the Economic rage, found it completely depop-
Union and the Joint Economic ulated.
Police in armored cars, who ar-
Board, envisaged in the resolu-
rived during the battle, were
tion.
The Commission, after hearing stopped by a withering fire from
the opening address of the Secre- Arab machinegunners and merely
tary-General, decided to hold a stood by and observed the opera-
number of closed meetings to con- tion from a distance.
- Attack Jewish Shops
sider a plan of work. It also de-
At the same time, elsewhere in
tided that its officers should re-
taro their posts until Oct. 1, 1948, the city, Arab rioters attacked
the date set in the Assembly res- Jewish shops on Princess Mary
olution as the deadline for the es- avenue, in the - center of the corn-
tablishment of the independent mercial district of the Jewish sec-
tion. Many shops were looted and
Jewish and Arab states.
some set afire. Fire brigade units
• Lisicky Pledges Aid
Karel Lisicky, in his opening were kept from the blaze by a
statement as chairman, pledged hail of bullets until police ar-
that the Com?nission would do its rived and dispersed -the rioters.
A Jewish convoy traveling be-
best to execute the partition deci-
sion. "B14," he added, "no one tween Kafar Etzion and Jerusa-
can expect miracles from five lem was attacked a few miles out-
lonely pilgrims who are armed at side of Bethlehem by a strong
present with no more than the guerrilla unit. Two Jews were
UN flag, and moral authority." seriously wounded and two are
His statement was seen by ob- reported to be missing. Police re-
servers as a veiled plea for the inforcements, summoned from
Jerusalem by one car in 'the con-
necessity of military backing.
Per Federspiel of Denmark, an- voy which succeeded in breaking
other member of the ComMission, through a road block erected by
replying to Mr. Lie, declared he the Arabs, escorted the convoy to
was confident that "we have the Jerusalem.
A fierce exchange of fire be-
full weight of the United Nations
tween Jewish militiamen and
behind our work."
• One of the urgent problems Arab snipers devolped in Haifa,
facing the Commission is to ar- paralyzing traffic across the Wadi
range with the British Govern- Rushmiya bridge. All streets in
ment for the arrival of the group the eastern section of the town,
and its staff in Palestine in time where the battle raged, were de-
to set up provisional governing serted as bullets whistled through
councils by the April 1 deadline the air.
Attempt to Break Siege
fixed by the Assembly. A British
One Jew, Shaul Ezra, was killed
spokesman said that while Sir
Alexander Cadogan, head of the and another, Eliezer Gelman, ser-
British delegation at the United iously wounded at Meshek Sha-
Nations, was ready to meet with faamr, north of Haifa, when the
the Commission, he will urge its settlement was attacked by a large
members to wait until late April party of Arabs. Police units en-
or early May before entering Pal- gaged the attackers, who are be-
lieved to have suffered heavy
estine.
Chairman Lisicky declared that casualties.
Meanwhile, the Jewish agency
the Commission will decide on
•the date of its arrival in Palestine hinted that it might adopt drastic
after consultation with represen- measures to break the siege of the
tatives of the British Government. Jewish section of the 'old city of
He made it clear that the Com 7 .Jerksalern, where nearly 2,000
mission would proceed to Pales- Jews have been cut off for more
tine only after a plan of opera- than a week by Arabs who dom-
tion has been worked out at Lake inate all eight gates to the walled
city. An agency spokesman told
SuCcess.
newsmen not to be surprised "if
AJC Urges Action
The demand that the UN Com- you hear a big bang near the old
mission should "proceed at once" city and many innocent people
to Palestine "to halt further dis- are killed." He added that "one
order" and to "serve notice that or another Jewish group will find
the UN decisions must be respect- a way of breaking through the
ed and will be enforced," was Arab cordon to the old city," in-
voiced in a statement issued by dicating that an attempt will be
the American Jewish Conference. made to blast a new entrance
The • Hebrew Committee of Na- through the heavy walls if the
tional Liberation addressed a British continue their passive ac-
communication to the UN Secre ceptance of the situation.
Haganah blew up a strategic
tariat asking Security Council,
action to terminate strife in Pal- bridge over the Jordan linking
Syria with Palestine. Arab fight-
estine.
George Barnes, chief of the ers renewed attacks on JeWish
press department of the United. colonies near Dan and sporadic
Nations, was appointed press liai- fighting continues. - '
The Jewish quarter in Beirut
son officer for the Implementa-
tion Commission. He will al:com- was attacked again. There . were

no casualties. Premier Jamil Mar-
dam Bey and President Shukri
Kouatly said they were studying
the note handed them by British
Minister P. M. Broadmead, pro-
testing the attacks on Palestine
from Syria.
It is reported that the Syrian
government has refused to renew
a commercial agreement with

Belgium in accordance with the
Arab League's decision to boycott
any country which voted at the
UN to partition Palestine.
Irgun Zvai Leumi, in a daring
action, rescued Uri Cohen, one
of its wounded members; from a
first aid station heavily guarded
by British troops.
Michael Klitchon, a non-Jewish

Ukrainian who had fled Poland,
was shot and killed by three Jews
while sitting. in a Jerusalem cafe.
The Stern Group had "executed"
him because he was acting as an
informer for the Criminal Inves-
tigation Division and because it
had pictorial evidence proving his
collaboration with the Nazis in
Europe.

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