PLAN REJECTED

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1947, Page 7

PLAN REJECTED

FUTURE OF PALESTINE ATTITUDE OF BOTH ARABS AND JEWS NO BASIS FOR DISCUSSION (Rec. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, February 10. The Jews and Arabs have definitely rejected the new .British proposals for Palestine, says Reuter’s. The Arab reply was sent to Mr. Bevin to-day. ? The spokesman for the Arab delegation at the London conference said, the delegation had rejected the latest British plan. The Arabs considered the proposal unsuitable to form the basis of discussion. Reuter’s adds that it is understood that the Arab reply reiterates the minimum Arab demands for an independent Palestine with guaranteed rights for the Jewish minority. The Jewish Agency executive will meet to-night to draw up its final reply. It is semi-officially stated by their London headquarters that they regard the new proposals as even worse than the Morrison plan and in no sense a basis for discussion. In Cairo to-day Amin El Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, told the leaders of Najada and Fetewa (the Palestine Arabs’ youth armies): “There is now no other way to solve the Palestine question except by a bloody revolution.” A reliable Arab League source stated that the league intended.to refer the Palestine question to the Security Council. FOUR JEWISH YOUTHS TODIE (Rec. 2.10 p.m.) JERUSALEM, Feb. 10. Three of four Jewish youths on trial for carrying firearms and whips when British troops searched Palestine for the terrorists who flogged a British officer and three n.c.o.’s on December 29 were to-day sentenced to be 'hanged. The fourth was sentenced to life imprisonment. The four refused to plead when charged before a military court. They are: Dov Resenbaum, aged 24; Xiam Gorovevsky, who is a minor; Eliahu Kashani, aged 23; and Mordechai Alkoshi, aged 21. ■ The prosecutor told the court that British -troops stopped a car after the flogging of Major Brett on Decembei 29. Rosenbaum got out armed with a sub-machine-gun. Gorovevsky threw a revolver at the troops and resisted arrest. Kashani had two rawhide whips and a fifth’ man, who later died, had a revolver and two plastic bombs in his pockets. Immediately after the sentences all the troops in Jerusalem were confined to barracks. Police posts were reinforced and arms issued to picked members of all the Jewish municipal police in Tel Aviv.--.-i-: The Jewish Agency, in reply to the Palestine Government ultimatum seeking Jewish collaboration against terrorism, says that any appeal to resist terrorism on the lines the Government suggested would be ineffective and likely to cause more harm than good. It adds that the Jewish community did not feel able to resist terrorism by using the resources of aGovernment, which, it said, was enforcing a policy that the community regarded as a breach of the country s fundamental law. »