Syria Masses Troops, Armor on Israeli
Border in Violation of Armistice Terms
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Is- here and at Tel Aviv expressed
PARIS, (JTA) — The Syrian
rael's cabinet heard a detailed the opinion that Syria may be government has officially asked
report on the Syrian border sit- facing an internal crisis and has France to adopt a "neutral"
uation from Prime Minister and mobilized forces along the Is- attitude over the "Palestine
Defense Minister David Ben- raeli border in order to solidify Question," it was reported from
Gurion, while the situation in Arab backing in case of inter- Damascus.
the north, along the Syrian nal
troubles. There were re- I Khaled En Azem, the Syrian
frontier, was quiet but tense. ports that, while half the Syrian ' Premier, told Pierre Sebilleau,
Informed sources reported army was on Israel's border, I
the French Ambassador to
that Syria has moved• half of tl
s soldiers have I Syria, that his government was
its army to the area in the de- fanned out over the countryside much more 'concerned with
militarized zone, on its side of to suppress any trouble that France's position on the Arab-
the border, overlooking Lake may arise inside the country. Israel dispute than with any
Tiberias. Heavy Syrian armor,
In the Arab world, there
not permitted in the zone ac- has been prompt reaction to loans or technical assistance.
The Syrian Premier told the
cording to the terms of the 1949 Syria's .provocative calls for
Syrian - Israeli armistice, has support against the Israelis. French envoy that France had
been placed in positions over- Statements backing Syria voted at the United Nations
looking the Israeli villages of have been issued in the capi- Special Political Committee
Tel Katzir and Haon. Heavy tals of Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan "with those who prevented the
tanks have also been placed by and Saudi Arabia. On the Palestinian delegate from ad-
the Syrians in those positions other hand, Ben - Gurion has dressing the committee." He
emphasized. that Syria wants the
threatening Israeli territory.
made clear that Israel will French government -"to observe
Observe:s saw also twin-
defend itself against Syrian a more neutral attitude and to
barreled Russian machine-
aggression. Israel, he said,
try to convince its former Afri-
guns of unusually long range.
will "hunt out" Syrian snip- can colonies to adopt a more
These Scviet guns have a
ers, not only those firing neutral attitude in regard to
bore of 14 millimeters —
from military positions but the Palestine 'issue." He said
whereas the armistice terms
also "in places where, per- support of Israel by such for-
limit each side to .guns of a
haps, they think we cannot mer colonies was "to the detri-
maximum bore of eight min- harm them."
ment of the Arab nations."
meters.
Israel may file formal com-
Strictly
plaints against this Syrian mo-
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Israel Opens Trial
Of Yossele's - thicle
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — The trial of
Shalom Shtarkes on charges of
kidnaping his nephew, Yossele
Schumacher, opened here Tues-
day with the boy presented as
the prosecution's key witness.
Yoselle, whose disappearance
for nearly two years stirred a
search for him on three conti-
nents and sharpened the cleav-
age between Orthodox and anti-
religious elements in Israel,
appeared in Jerusalem District
Court minus the sidecurls he
had grown during his hiding by
extremist orthodox groups. He
also wore the typical sports
jacket of an Israeli schoolboy.
The boy, who was finally
found by United States secret
service men in the home of a
Brooklyn rabbi last spring, re-
moved his spectacles to enable
two prosecution witnesses to
identify him as the lad who was
brought to the Kommemiut Vil-
lage, an Agudas Israel settle-
ment two years ago.
The witnesses were brothers
Zalman and Reuven Kutt, who
described how the boy was
brought to their home for lodg-
ing. They testified - they were
enroute to the synagogue for
mincha services when they were
accosted by Yoselle's escort
who arranged for lodging. But
neither would definitely iden-
tify the defendant as the boy's
escort at that time.
Zalman Kutt pointed to both
the defendant and to one of the
court spectators as the person
who might have been the escort.
Reuven Kutt said he could not
identify anyone in the court-
room as the possible escort.
The defense counsel tried un-
-successfully before proceedings
began to obtain postponement
-pending action on an applica-
tion to stay the proceedings. He
cited a petition of Yoselle's
mother to the attorney general
to halt the prbsecution against
the . defendant who • is her
brother. The attorney also cited
a letter from the boy's grand-
father, Nachman Shtarkes, to
• Prithe Minister Ben-Gurion ask-
ing .him to intervene to call of
the trial, declaring that this
should be done now that peace
in the family had been restor-
ed. The grandfather spent more
than a year in jail for refusal
to aid the authorities in finding
the missing boy.
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