LEBANON'S TERMS FOR ARMISTICE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22818, 13 December 1948, Page 5

LEBANON'S TERMS FOR ARMISTICE

(11 a.m.)

LONDON, Dec. 12,

Lebanon has advised the United Nations it is willing to negotiate a Palestine armistice if the Israeli forces are withdrawn from Lebanese villages across its frontiers with Palestine before the negotiations began, says the Associated Press correspondent in Paris. The Associated Press correspondent in Cairo says the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, told newspaper correspondents that war must be the only means of settling the Palestine dispute. ‘‘We should fight the Jews to the end because they have no limit to their ambitions,” he said. Reuter’s correspondent in Cairo says the Arabic weekly newspaper Akbar el Yom reported that King Farouk disowned the Jericho conference of 2000 Arab delegates which was reported to have asked Transjordan’s King Abdullah to proclaim himself “King of Palestine.” The newspaper stated that King Farouk told the heads of the Arab League diplomatic mission in Egypt: “Egypt did not shed the blood of her loyal sons to hand the future of Palestine to those assembled in Jericho.”