Story Behind TNT Cargo

Northern Advocate, 7 January 1948, Page 5

Story Behind TNT Cargo

' NEW YORK. Tue. (iO a.m.)—Part of ' ■the mysterious Palestine cargo, in! which TNT was found, was picked up | I at a lonely Pennsylvania farmhouse by ■ i night and taken to the freighter Execu- ; . tor. loading in Jersey City. Mr William , Hoffman, head of a New Jersey truck- , ing firm, disclosed today. Mr Hoffman said that on December ! 27 a man named Philip Alter, who had , since disappeared, asked him to send ' three trailer trucks to load an emergency cargo. The truck drivers were guided to a j farmhouse at Pipcrsville, Pennsylvania, j ,by a man called “Moe,” who sent a 1 i snowplough ahead. j ! The truckers loaded 23 cases of; j what they were told was machinery. I Because of the snow, they stayed : overnight at Pipcrsville and took the j ; cases to the Mew Jersey pier the fol- j ' lowing day. jHaganoh Censured LONDON, Tue. (10 a.m.)—The Jeruj salem Government took a serious view iof Kaganah’s claims that it was res- | ponsible for the Semiramis Hotel ex- | plosion yesterday, which was a “dasi tardly and wanton murder of innocent I people." j The claim that the hotel was a hide- ‘ out for Arab gangs was completely : without foundation, j It is officially announced .that Arabs i shot dead a British officer while he | was driving through an Arab road- ! block near Acre. Moon’ Wear Anniversary Today marks the 103rd anniversary of the outbreak of the first Maori war. On January 7. 1845, Hone Heke, famed Maori leader, because of the rise in price of goods sold by pakeha traders, opened hostilities with attacks !on pakeha communities. ; One year previously, Hone Heke | had cut down the flagstaff, sign of the pakeha rule, at Russell, then i Kororareka. Following the outbreak of 1845 the flagstaff was again cut down and burned by Heke. ; i The ending of the war came in 1846. | The second Maori war commenced j about 12 years later. ! jMZ, Heavy Importer | New Zealand was a heavy importer i of Ceylon tea in the past year. In the | period January to October the Do- ; minion received 10,903,659 lbs of Cey- | lon tea, according to figures issued | from Colombo. ! In October alone 262.522 lbs was sent r I to the Dominion. On the other hand, ! Australia received 27,957,899 lbs in the ■ ! 10-month period. L j These figures are equal to 6.4 lb a ; | head of population for New Zealand j and 4 lb a head for Australia. I Shipments of tea from Ceylon for r' the period of the quoted year from 3 j April 1 to October 31 were 183.918.766 lbs. The' total exported from January 1 1 to October 31 was 243,261,122 lbs. i The principal recipients of Ceylon 1-1 tea for the period January to October : were: United Kingdom, 89.523.794 lbs; e' Australia, 27.957,899 lbs; Canada, s 21.730.154 lbs; Egypt. 23.434,558 lbs; t United States, 14.958.981 lbs; New ' Zealand, 10.903,659 lbs-