WRECKED IN AEGEAN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22199, 9 December 1946, Page 7

WRECKED IN AEGEAN

ILLEGAL JEW SHIP

R.A.F. DROPS SUPPLIES

BRITISH TROOPS IN BRAWL (10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 8,

Eight persons are missing from the 800 Jews aboard a refugee ship which was wrecked near Rhodes Island during a storm early to-day. says Reuter’s correspondent in Jerusalem.

The Jewish Agency stated that the remainder were safe and help was being rushed to them. Royal Air Force planes are flying with food and medical supplies to be dropped for the shipwrecked illegal immigrants. They are on an island 50 miles north-west of Rhodes. Jewish sources at Nathanya, a town half-way between Tel Aviv and Haifa, report that troops of the Royal Ulster Rifles "rioted” last night and smashed a lumber of shop winddws. Ten Jews were injured. Reuter’s correspondent in Jerusalem reports that the Palestine police headquarters say they reecived a report of a “brawl” betweeh the Royal Ulster Rifles and members of a parachute regiment stationed at Nathanya. One Jewish civilian is stated to have been beaten up. The Arab Executive Committee of Palestine, in a Note signed by the exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, criticises the Palestine plan which, it says, representatives of seven Arab States submitted to the British Government at the recent London conference. According to the Associated Press correspondent in Cairo, the letter, which was sent to the Arab League's secretariat, stated that the Palestine committee cannot accept the plan because it cannot approve of the establishment of the Palestine Government on the basis of one-third Jews and two-thirds Arabs.

“We reject the granting of Palestinian nationality to the Jews now in Palestine,” it said A member of the Palestine committee said privately that Arabs might be advised to arm themselves to defend the country.