TERRORIST TRUCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22200, 10 December 1946, Page 5

TERRORIST TRUCE

PALESTINE GANGS PERIOD OF CONGRESS U.S. INTEREST WELCOMED '(11.30 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 9. I;: is reliably reported that the terroist organisations. Irgun Zvaileumi, ond the Stern Gang, after a consultation with the Jewish underground army, Haganah. agreed to refrain from violence during the Zionist Congress *t Basle, says Reuter’s correspondent in Jerusalem. In Basle to-day Mr. Moshe Shertok, head of the Jewish Agency’s political department told a press conference: “According to our information, the terrorist organisation: have proclaimed a truce in their unfortunate activity.” Mr. Shertok added that Mrr. James Byrnes’ suggestion for a Jewish-Afabian conference was welcomed as a practical expression of American interest in the Palestine solution. “The fact that I welcome American interest, with the possibility of American observers at the London conference, does not prejudice any Zionist Congress decision on the question of the Jewish Agency attending he London conference,” lie said. Whil • thousands on the roofftops watched the ecliDse of the moon, Bedouins in the old city beat drums to “drive out the devil eating the moon.” The British destroyer Chevron left Haifa to aid the illegal immigrants on the shipwrecked Cyreno.