10-Hour Battle Rages
on Israel-Syrian Border

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
- to The Jewish News

Galilee settlement, for the fu-
TEL AVIV—Wrecked and si- neral of the soldier, Attaia Ha-
lenced Syrian gun positions East mous, who settled in Israel two
of the Israeli-Syrian border years ago.
During Tuesday night, spo-
and a damaged Israeli armored
oar West of the border were the radic fire from Syrian positions
only signs Wednesday of a 10- was aimed at Hehavot Baba-
hour battle. Tuesday, iii which shan, but no casualties or dam-
one Israeli soldier was killed ages were reported. Early Wed-
and 10 troops and police nesday morning the driver of a
combine in the Dan settlement
wounded.
Work in the Israeli settle- fields North of Gonan, scene of
ments along the border re- Tuesday's mortar and machine
turned to normal Wednesday gun clash, was wounded by a
while, preparations were made Syrian sniper.
inn Kiryat Shmoneh, an upper
A United Nations white flag
was seen Wednesday morning
near • the wrecked Syrian posi-
tions indicating that UN inves-
tigators were collecting infor-
mation for a report.
Heavy Syrian Army move-
ments also were observed on
the hilltops overlooking Israel's
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The fertile Huleh valley.
Conference on Jewish Material
The battle Tuesday, one of
Claims Against Germany has
decided to make its first allo- the most serious clashes on the
cation to a Jewish community Syrian border in recent months,
developed with machine gun fire
in a Communist- country, to the
from
Syrian nests at an Israeli
Hungarian Jewish community,
border patrol.
Dr. Nahum G-oldmann, presi-
Israeli armored cars, rushed
dent of the Claims Conference
to the scene to help extricate
and of the World Jewish 'Con-
the trapped and wounded po-
gress, reported here.
lice, became the target of heavy
Dr. Goldmann, who recently mortar fire.
met with Hungarian Jewish
Israeli troops then opened re-
leaders, said that the Hungarian turn mortar fire and knocked
– Jews had accepted the right of Out a number of Syrian gun
the Claims Conference to super- posts.
vise the spending of any funds
Until their guns were silenced
ilt allocates and its right to send by Israeli fire, the Syrian troops
its awn officials to inspect the had ignored 10 United Nations'
program. These are conditions demands for a cease-fire. •
for grants by the Claims Con-
The incident was considered
ference to any community pro- by the Israeli cabinet, Which
- .
ject.
was in session when the inci-
The WJC leader revealed that dent began.
Col. Byron Leary, acting chief
Czech and Polish Jewries are
expected to request similar allo- of sttaff of the UN Truce Super-
cations soon. The Hungarian -vjsion Organization who was in
Jewish application is for funds Damascus Tuesday, was in-
to collect clocainents and other farmed of developments and
research materials pertaining to contacted` 'the Syrian govern-
the community. destroyed by ment to ask for a cease-fire.
Later, -he was -summoned to
the Nazis.
Dr. Goldmann said that as a -Jerusalem for - urgent talks With
result of the WJC-Alungarian Dr. Walter Eytan, director gen-
Jewish parley the Hungarian eral of the Foreign Ministry.
An Israeli Army spokesman
leaders plan to renew contact
said that the firing began at
with the :World Jewish- Congress
noon Tuesday, when a Syrian
either• by rejoining it or by
•machine gun unit opened fire on
operating with it.
an Israeli border patrol. One
World Jewish leadership, .Dr. Israeli was hit immediately.
Gold mann disclosed, • has reach-
The patrol returned the fire,
ed the conclusion that it is ne- and the Syrians resorted to
cessary to make a world issue mortars. Israeli reinforcements
of Soviet Jewry's right to live were brought up to extricate
a Jewish life and of the right the patrol.
of individual Jews to emigrate
The cease-fire demands began
from the USSR.
at 2:45 p.m., on orders issued
An anti-Soviet campaign is by Col._J. Moe, chairman of the
not contemplated, he stressed, Israel-Syrian Mixed. Armistice
but it is felt that raising the Commission.
issue of Jewish rights will re
ceive wide support, even in So-
viet circles. He admitted that it
would be a prolonged struggle,
but not a hopeless one.

Claims Group
to Send Funds to
Hungarian Jewg

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Israel Destroyers Ready for Egypt's New Submarines

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel's
destroyers are prepared for
anti-submarine action, Lt. Col.
Itzhak Dvir, commander of the
destroyer "Haifa," revealed.
Lt. Col. Dvir, whose vessel
is the .former Egyptian ship
Ibrahim el Awal, said that all
Israeli destroyers are equipped
with anti-submarine weapons
and devices and that the navy
is carrying out anti-submarine
exercises and training.
Israeli sources indicated there
is a growing belief that the
question of Israel's freedom of
navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba
and in the Suez Canal ulti-
mately will be turned over to
the International Court of Jus-
tice at The Hague for a ruling.
Israel's position on such a
move remains unchanged, these
sources 'said. Israel contends
that the 1951 ruling of the
United Nations Security Coun-
cil, ordering Egypt to halt its
Suez blockade against Israel, is
specific and of higher author-
ity than a Hague court ruling.

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Vet Commanders
to Visit in Israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
national commanders of this na-
tion's six major veterans' organ-
izations will visit Israel from
July 15 to 19 to establish per-
sonal contacts with Israeli vet-
erans and to arrange future co-
operation and programs.
Veterans' and military groups
in Israel will act as hosts to the
Americans. The veterans' visit
is a phase of the "people-to
people" program endorsed by
President Eisenhower.
The tour party includes the
commanders of the American
Legion, Veterans 6f Foreign .
Wars, Disabled American Vet-
erans; Amvets, Catholic War
Veterans and Jewish War Vet-
erans.
This is the first time the six
organizations, whose member-
ship rolls include_ virtually ev-
ery living veteran of America's
wars, have embarked on such
an operation as a group.
They will also visit England,
France and Italy to meet vet-
erans of those nations en route
to Israel.

The Israel position on Aqaba
("The Arab states are pre-
transit is that there is no basis paring to make this . point as
for litigation.
part of a second round of a
joint effort to induce the United
Israeli circles were reportedly States to abandon its support
becoming convinced that dur- of Israel's claim to the right
ing the coming General Assem- of free passage through the
bly, one of the Western coun- gulf," the Times report said.)
tries, possibly a small one with
Great Power backing, may pro-
pose that the UN ask The Hague
court for an advisory opinion
Be Fair To Yourself ..
on Israel's rights of the Suez
Canal.
(The New York Times re-
ported from Cairo that Egypt
and the Arab states are pre-
paring to argue that Israel has
no legal right to the port of
Elath or the Gulf of Aqaba and
therefore, Israel has no legal
'TILL YOU GET A DEAL FROM
right to send her ships through
the gulf. The Arab contention,
Cairo official sources said, will
be that Elath is rightfully the
property either of Egypt or of
Jordan, since it lies between
those two countries at a narrow-
point of the Negev, where it
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U. S. Bank Mission Leaves for Israel

to Investigate for $75 000 000 Loan

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

WASHINGTON —A mission
from the U. S. Export-Import
Bank Wednesday for Israel to
carry out technical and econo-
mic surveys of existing projects
assisted by bank loans in that
country and to study plans and
-resources for further Israeli
development- proposals.
Israel has requested an addi-
tional $75,000,000 loan to
finance dollar purchases in the
United States of equipment to
assist in furthering irrigation
and agricultural settlement pro-
grams.
Bank representatives have not
visited Israel since - 1953. The
present mission is composed of
Lynn U. Stambaugh, first vice-
president and vice-chairman of
-the -board of directors; .TATilliam
G. Welk, an economist of the
bank; Frank - Kimball, an- engi-
neer, and Oliver J. Scherer,
ground water geologist serving
as a consultant.
The Export-Import Bank
loaned Israel $135,000,000 in
1949, in six credits, to finance
dollar purchases within the U.S.
_required for irrigation and agri-
cultural settlement, industrial
projects and transport designed

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to contribute to the counry's
e c o n o m i c development and
eventual self support. Repay-
ments on thew loans commenced
in 1954 and total $21,900,000 to
date.

Upon the mission's return and
based upon its findings, the Ex-
port-Impart Bank will give final
consideration to the question of
financing under the pending
Israeli loan request.

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