THE JEWISH Friday, January 23, 1948 Page Three NEWS - Cadogan Avoids Definite Word on Port Clearance Britain Tells Commission To Come to Zion after May 1 Provisional Government Headed by a I5-Man Cabinet Being Set Up by Jewish ,Agency; Problem of Arming Palestine AggFavates Issue . Fritz Bernstein, Eliezer _Kaplan, Goldie Meyerson and Moshe Sha- piro, all members of the Agency executive and David Remez, Zvi Lurie, J. R. Grabovsky, Mordecai Shatner, David Zvi Pinkas, and Dr. George Landauer, all mem- bers of the executive of the Jew- ish National Council, a n d Dr. Abraham Granovsky, head of the Jewish National Fund. The first-year budget of the new state has been estimated at between $50,000,000 and $60,000,- 000. The site for the capital has not yet been fixed. LAKE SUCCESS (JTA)—Sir of the various religious corn- Alexander Cadogan, chief of the Munities to make \Jerusalem an British delegation at. the United "open city," but had made little Nations, Indicated to the UN Im- progress. Haganah distributed Arabic plementation Commission that it would not be adviSable for • it to leaflets warning the Arabs that arrive in Palestine - before May 1, unless the siege of the Old City two weeks prior to the termina- was lifted, the Haganah would set up cordons around Arab quartert tion of the Palestine mandate. Speaking at a closed session of Jerusalem. An Arab . attempt to overrun of the Commission, the British representative avoided giving a Kfar Etzion, in the Hebron Hills, clear answer to the question of south of Jerusalem, was finally whether Britain will evacuate a beaten back after a fierce battle. port in the Jewish area of Pales- It was stated that the Haganah tine by Feb. 1, as provided in a had collected 80 British_and Ger- General Assembly resolution. man rifles left behind by, dead The. British Government, he said, and fleeing attackers. The pilot of the civilian plane has responsibility up to • the last minute before termination of the which dropped medical sup- mandate. However, he added that plies to be-leaguered Jewish the subject was open for further settlers at Kfar Etzion surrend- negotiations with the Commis- ered to the Tel Aviv police. He turned out to be Ezer Weiz- sion. (In Jerusalem, a- government mann, nephew of the Zionist spokesman told a press confer- leader, Dr. Chaim Weizmann. The British asserted that the ence that the Palestine Govern- plane had fired on a British ment is ready to receive the tech- reconnaissance plane, but Jew- nical staff of the UN Implementa- ish sources denied this. tion Commission, in order to Haifa, a fierce battle raged • hand over files, but would not all In day for domination of the agree to the arrival of members city's traffic lanes. Four Jews and of the Commission, fearing "dual seven Arabs were killed and authority." many more wounded in an ex- An international police force change of rifle and mortar fire for Palestine, arming of the that virtually paralyzed traffic Jewish militia and opening of the throughout the city. The Hag- Tel Aviv port to Jewish immigra- anan claimed that in the Jan. 15 tion under Jewish control Feb. 1 action in Haifa 82 Arabs were were demanded by Moshe Sher- killed and about 106 wounded and tok appearing on behalf of the 10 Arab-owned buses were de-- . Jewish Agency before the 'UN stroyed in a garage Implementation Commission. Haganah sappers operating At an earlier meeting a resolu= along the Tel Aviv-Jaffa border tion calling the Security Council erected barbed wire entangle- to provide an international po- ments between' Tel Aviv and lice force to carry out the UN Salama Village in.Jaffa to pre- partition decision was placed be- vent Arab attacks, following a fore the Commission by one of report that a newly arrived gang, its members, Vincente J. Fran- commanded by a former German cisco of the Philippines. officer who 'escaped from a Shertok took issue with the prisoner of war camp in Egypt, attitude of the British govern- has set up its base of operations ment. He urged the Commission in Salama and is planning to at- to proceed to Palestine as soon tack Tel Aviv. as possible. British authority in Another Jewish colony, Neve Palestine he said, would remain Eilan, about 12 miles east of unchallenged while the Commis- Jerusalem, was placed under at- sion would be engaged in the tack by a strong Arab force. task of setting up the Councils of- Eliezer ;Vlarkovitch, 20, was killed Government and the poliCe forces. and an unnamed girl inhabitant The Jews in Palestine, he de- wounded. The colony, which was clared, are looking with "keenest founded with funds contributed interest" to the carrying out of by American Zionists, is popu- the UN plan to open a port on lated by veterans of the French Feb. 1 in the. Jewish area of Maquis. Palestine for Jewish immigration. At a press conference in Tel This, he said, will be a test case Aviv, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, for the UN since it will mark chairman of the American sec- the beginning of the implementa- tion of the Agency, pledged the tion of the partition decision. aid of American Jews to the Pal- estine Jewish community and Haganah Routs Arabs said that American Jewry favors Near Orthodox Colonies the dispatch of an international JERUSALEM (JTA) — A six- police force to Palestine to hour battle between several hun- plement the UN decision. He add- dred Arab guerillas and settlers ed that American Jews would in a group, of Orthodox Jewish like to see a united front among colonies, midway between He- the Haganah, Irgun and the bron and Jerusalem ended in a Stern Group. complete rout of the invaders. Plan Provisional Government The - inhabitants of the colonies Headed by 15-Man Cabinet and their Haganah guards suffer- A detailed blueprint of the pro- ed a few casualties, but inflicted visional government for the new heavy losses on the guerrillas, Jewish state, which will be head- who were reinforced by Arabs ed by a 15-man Cabinet, is near- from mountain settlements in the ing completion, it was revealed Hebron Hills. One report said by t h e Jewish Agency, which nearly .100 Arabs were killed by said that the current violence has machine-gun fire and mines but not retarded preparations for the the Arabs listed 12 dead. The establishment of the state. When Haganah pursued the fleeing at- the U N Implementation Corn- tackers for more than five miles, mission arrives, it will find that breaking through several road- plans have been drafted to meet any eventuality. blocks. The blueprint dealt exclusively The houst of the ex-Mufti, lo- cated on a slope of Mount Scopus, with civil functions, the _spokes- outside the Sheikh Jarach quar man explaining that "army or ter, was demolished by Sternists. military preparations are ex- Six Jews were killed in Haifa plicitly excluded from our plan- when a stolen post office truck ing since they are purely a Haga- filled with explosives was parked nah job." He also pointed out that near the Savoy Hotel ty two it will be the responsibility of the Arabs who fled. A British 'police- UN Commission to outline plans man was also killed and another for a Jewish militia or other injured. Later, there was sporadic armed forces. The plans have been drafted shooting in the city's commercial by a 13-member planning com- center. A government spokesman re- mittee, he a d e d by David Ben vealed that the authorities have Gurion, Agency chairman, and in- been negotiating with the heads cluding: Itzhak Gruenbaum, Dr. . . Resume of Palestine Events Sir Alexander Cadogan has been designated as Great Britain's representative on the UN Pales- tine Implementation Commission. He will be assisted by Trafford Smith of t h e London Colonial Office and J. Fletcher-Cooke of the High Commissioner's Office in Jerusalem. • Great Britain ha's- indicated in a statement in London that arms shipped to Arab countries will be scrutinized to avoid their use in Palestine. In this country, meanwhile, the State Department • bas declared that it has no intention of lifting the arms embargo to facilitate the shipment of ammunition to Pales- tine's Haganah. The arrest of five members of t h e group which participated in the TNT shipments . is aggravating the situation. French authorities stated in Paris that they may, expel British officials who arrived in Paris en route to joining Palestine's Arab forces. In -Canada, a request has been made to allow Canadian volun- teers to serve in whatever inter- national force may be recruited for Palestine. . •