RETORT COURTEOUS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 7 December 1946, Page 7

RETORT COURTEOUS

U.S. FILM STAR'S ADDRESS (Special Correspondent.) (10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. Last week a telegram arrived at Buckingham Palace addressed: “Pat O’Brien, America’s most famous film star, care King George VI, England.” A Palace official telephoned the American Embassy and asked where O’Brien was.. “In Italy,” the Embassy official replied. "Why don’t you send It to him care of the Pope,” retorted the Palace Inquirer,

an Arab Legion guard tent inside the barbed wire around the house. The legionaries drove off the attackers.

The correspondent earlier reported that a gun battle was going on with sporadic shooting in many parts of the city.

Mine Explodes in Street

A land mine exploded in the Street of the Prophets, blew up a taxi, and killed the two occupants. It is officially announced that a curfew has been imposed in the north-western area, which is about one-third of Jerusalem, where, it is reported, a British constable was shot in the stomach near the Mustashfa police station. One British officer and one soldier were killed and four officers and most of the civilian staff were injured in a bomb attack on a military headquarters at Sarafand cantonment, near Tel Aviv, says Reuter’s correspondent in Jerusalem. British Uniforms Worn

Terrorists reported wearing British uniforms drove a lorry laden with explosives into the heavily-guarded cantonment at army headquarters and walked away. Fifteen minutes later i violent explosion wrecked the office building. It is feared that some persons are ctill missing and a search is in progress. Isa ic Ben Zvi, chairman of the Jewish National Council for the second time in a week saw the High Commislioner, Sir Allan Cunningham, to-day and is believed to have given him a certain assurance about action to be taken in the event of continued terrorsm.