-Friday, March 5, 1948

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

U.S. Bars Shipment of Money, Meat to Palestine

State Department Denies
Transjordan Negotiations

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The Post Office Department has
announced that it will not accept money orders for Palestine.
The action was taken pursuant to a request of the Palestine
government, which this week excluded Palestine from the
Sterling bloc, a department spokesman said.
The State Department denied that the U. S. government
is engaged in any negotiations or

discussions with Transjordan for
the incorporation of the Arabian
part of Palestine into Transjor-
dan. A State Department spokes-
man said that no representative
or agent of King Abdullah of
Transjordan has been in contact
with the U. S. government.
The denial was made following
a report from Lake Success that a
high emissary of Abdullah is in
Washington conferring on a plan
by which the monarch would
take over those sections of Pales-
tine set aside for the Arabs in the
UN partition decision, in return
for raising no objection to the
establishment of a Jewish state
in the remainder of the country.

Firm Denied Export License
For Shipment of Kosher Meat
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Zionist Orgapization of America
charges that the. State Department
has refused to grant an export
license to an American firm for
the shipment of. 96,000 pounds of
kosher beef to Tel Aviv.
"By some strange oversight no
meat quota at all has been grant-
ed for Palestine, and therefore the
approval of an export license for
the shipment of kosher meat has
been. rejected," Washington of-
ficials were reported as stating.

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High Commissioner Predicts
British Will Return to. Palestine
JERUSALEM, (JPS-Palcor) —
An inkling of British designs was
given here when High Commis-
sioner Cunningham, in an address
before a gathering of Jerusalem
community, officials, predicted
that the British would have to re-
turn to Palestine in order to "help
achieve a final settlement" of the
Palestine problem: The high com-
missioner said he would retire to
private life when , the Mandate
ends.
Chief Rabbi Herzog, speaking
at the burial services for 50, of
the victims of last Sunday's Ben
Yehuda Street bombing, de-
clared that Britain is "90 per
cent responsible for the hun-
dreds of Jewish victims who
fell in the Holy Land since out-
breaks began, including the vic-
tims we are now burying."
• The Haganah radio said that
British Army and' pollee forces
are now openly protecting Arab
military preparations along the
Jaffa-Tel Aviv border while at the
same time systematically inter-
fering with Jewish defense instal-
lations.
These charges were
broadcast as British troops and
police were sending barrage on
barrage of indiscriminate rifle and
machirie-gun fire. into, the Jewish
quarters of Jerusalem, killing the
wife of a Jewish government of-
ficial and seriously wounding two
other women passers-by and a
Man.

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Troops Protect Arabs

• According to Haganah, British
troops have been preferring
groundless charges againSt Jew-
ish buildings in the Tel. Aviv-
Jaffa border area as an excuse .to
occupy them in order- to protect
Arab fortification and sniper op-
erations from possible Jewish re-
. turn fire. '
• A slight, blond mustached Eng-
lishman, about 25, and several
other Englishmen, wearing berets
with. insignia of the Royal Engi-•
'leers superimposed; manned the
police armored •car which led
three truck-loads of death and,
destruction into narrow Ben Yeh-
uda Street, in the heart t of
Jerusalem early last Sunday
morning, two Jewish civil guards,
who. unwittingly let the fatal con-
voy:pass, testified at a public in-
quiry here. The inquiry is being
held jointly by the Jewish Agen-
cy and Vaad Leuini (Jewish Na-
tional Council) to establish . re-
sponsibility for the deliberle
holocaust which took the lives of

more • than 50 men, women and
children and injured nearly 200
others.
The witnesses, both veterans of
war-time and post-war service
with Britigh armed forces, told
the court of inquiry that the occu-
pants of the armored car were
defititely Britishers and 'there
was no mistaking them for any-
one else.
Two non-Jewish Poles were
found shot dead in Jerusalem. The
Sternists announced that they had
"executed" the two for betraying
Jewish secrets to the Arabs. One
of the men was a former Polish
consular employee, while the sec-
one was the ex-director of a Po-
lish press service bureau here.
, Irgun and Haganah clashed in
Tel Aviv when members of the
former group solicited funds pub-
licly for their war chest. Irgun
accused Haganah of having dis-
armed some of its . members after
an operation which the dissidents
had carried out against the Brit-
ish. A repetition of such be-
havior will result in the Irgun-
ists opening fire, the underground
threatened.
The number of Jews killed and
wounded mounted as a result of
Arab attacks on Jewish convoys.
Abdut 100 trucks loaded - with
Arabs, armed with machineguns,
mortars and explosives have in-
filtrated across the Palestine bor-
der from Syria and Transjordan.
`Open City' Talks Fail
The situation in the Jerusalem
Old City, where no food convoys
arrived during the past week,
continues to deteriorate. British
military authorities have refused
to accompariy such convoys -until
members of the Jewish defense
forces will be removed from the
Old City.
Negotiations to proclaim the
Old City of Jerusalem an. "open
city," which have been going on
for -some time, have failed be-
cause of the Mufti's refusal to
enter into any negotiations until .
the Jews leave the quarter. As
a result, the British are attempt-
ing to remove all the Jews from
the Old City. This attempt is
meeting with opposition on the
part of Jewish leaders, who
claim that, the British military
authorities are indifferent to the
lack of food in the Old City be-
cause they believe that this will
speed the departure of the Jews.
Pro-fascist deserters from the
Palestine police force, using
forged documents, have infiltrat-
ed the police guard at the in-
ternment camp for Palestinian
Jews at Gilgil, Kenya, where
they have succeeded in inciting
both the British and native po-
lice against the detainees, it was
revealed at a press conference
in Tel Aviv by Dr. L. I. Rabino-
witz, chief rabbi of Johannes-
burg, South Africa, who has just
arrived here by way of Kenya.
He said the fascists were former
members of the Farran gang of
Palestine policemen.
The Palestine rabbinate has
decided to bury the victims of

.

the explosion of Ben Yehuda
street in a common grave in

the ancient tomb of the Sanhe-
drin, located in the small San-
hedria quarter. The tomb,
burial place of Jewish judges,
was last used during the period
of the Second Temple.
The action was taken as a re-
sult of the British refusal to
supply a military convoy for a
funeral cortege to the Jewish
cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
Thousands of Jerusalem citizens
lined the streets as the first
burial procession got under way
for the 54 Jewish men, women
and children who lost their lives
in the outrage.
A military court began a secret
trial of a British sergeant major
charted with abducting four Jews
and turning them over to Arabs,
who executed them.

Turkey Refutes Claim
Of Support for Arms

NEW YORK, (Palcor)—Ahmet
Sukru Esme•, director of the
Turkish Information Service in
the U. S., submitted to Palcor a
statement denouncing a "concer-
ted attempt on the part of certain
circles opposed to the UN deaisi-
sion (on Palestine) to present
Turkey as undermining the au-
thority of t h e UN; whereas,
Turkey's policy in this matter,

as in all other questions pertain-
ing to the maintenance of peace,
is one of collaboration with the
United Nations."
This statement by the Turkish
Information Service was prompted
by a dispatch from Jerusalem,
released by Palcor, reporting a
boast by the Cairo newspaper
Rus-el-Yussef, that Turkey and
Iran were giving the Iraqi Govern-
ment new types of arms received
from the United States to try out
against the Jews in Palestine.

Czech Government Cancels
Visas for Romanian Jews

PRAGUE, (JTA) — The Czech-
oslovak Government will no long-
er issue transit visas for Roman-.
ian Jews who seek to enter other
countries in Europe or Palestine
via Czechoslovakia, it was reveal-
ed by L. Balzan, HIAS director.
All transit visas already issued
in Romania by Czechoslovak con-
sulates there have been cancel-
led.

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