VITAL DECISION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22439, 20 September 1947, Page 5

VITAL DECISION

PALESTINE ISSUE CABINET MEETING SHARE RESPONSIBILITY? (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. The Cabinet meeting, which was postponed from today until tomorrow because the Colonial Secretary, Mr. ACreech Jones, could not return from the West Indies in time, will decide Britain’s attitude to Palestine. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin. will attend before leaving for Paris for the plenary session of the aid-to-Europe conference on MondayMr. Creech Jones will be the chief British spokesman at the United Nations’ meeting next week when the report of the United. Nations’ special committee on Palestine will be discussed.

The Cabinet is expected to instruct him to say that Britain can hardly shoulder single-handed all the responsibilities for Palestine during the transition period whether partition or a federal State is adopted.

JEW LEADER CAPTURED

WOUNDED DURING FLIGHT <11.15 a.m.) JERUSALEM. Sept. 19. One of the Irgun Zvai Leumi leaders, believed to be the organisation's commander in Jerusalem, was cap'ured today at a seaside retreat near Nathanya after being wounded in a fight with the police. From a first-floor window he and a companion saw the police surrounding the house. They jumped, refused to halt and the police fired, wounding the leader. Both men then surrendered. It is understood that the leader went to Nathanya because Jerusalem was too hot for him. Three hundred troops and police using magnetic mine detectors made a combined sweep on the Jewish quarter on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem today and discovered an Irgun Zvai Leumi arms cache containing rifles, flame-throwers, road mines, time bombs and ammunition. iiHiiitimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiniiiiiHiiiim*