BIG FOUR CALLS ON ARABS AND JEWS FOR CEASE-FIRE PACT

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1948, Page 5

BIG FOUR CALLS ON ARABS AND JEWS FOR CEASE-FIRE PACT

(Rec. 2 p.m.) JERUSALEM, March 15. The consular corps in Jerusalem condemned and decided to inform 'their respective Governments of “the serious situation preventing the normal discharge of their duties and of breaches of immunity causing fatali- , ties among members.” The corps referred to the fraudulent use of a consular car “in a bomb outrage at the Jewish Agency. A New York message states that the Big Four today called on Palestinian Arabs and Jews to state by tomorrow whether they would enter into a cease-fire pact. A scheduled meeting of the Security Council was postponed to give the disputing parties time to ansker. The Big Four also decided to ask the six Arab countries in the United ' Nations to agree to co-operate in effecting a truce. “The Haganah and the Stern Gang have ’ combined in attacks on Arab positions and communications from Safed to Gaza,” says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. “These attacks, combined with a flare-up in Jerusalem, brought to at least GO the number known to have been killed in the last 24 hours. “Witnesses say that Stern Gangmembers who on Saturday night penetrated the Katamon quarter of Jerusalem to attack Arab positions, masqueraded as a company of, British soldiers. They marched in formation with a man posing as a sergeant- • major giving army orders in English.