INTENTIONS CLEAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26708, 1 March 1948, Page 7

INTENTIONS CLEAR

SUCCESSOR TO PALESTINE ADMINISTRATION

MEMORANDUM FROM BRITAIN Rec. 8 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. The United Nations Palestine Commission diclosed to-day that it had. ieceived a memorandum from the British Government declaring “ that after May 15 the United Nations Palestine Commission will be the Government of Palestine.” The memorandum made it clear that Britain considered the fiyenation partition commission the legitimate successor and government to the present Palestine administration and would turn over the country’s assets to the commission. . , , Moshe Shertok, the Jewish Agency representative, told the Security Council to-day that the Jews would compromise no further in Palestine. They were ready to establish the proposed Jewish country there themselves if the United Nations would protect them from outside interference. British Troops in Action

In Jerusalem, British troops assisted to repulse an attack by a large force of Arab volunteers from outside Palestine against the Jewish farm colony in the Tulkarem area. Four Iraques and two Jews were wounded. The Royal Navy boarded off the Palestine coast a ship carrying more than 1000 illegal Jewish migrants. The destroyer is escorting the vessel to Haifa. A time bomb, which Jews apparently hid in a car, wrecked an Arab garage, killing five Arabs, including the chief clerk of the Haifa Municipality, injured 25 others, and destroyed two houses in the vicinity. , „ The bodies of two Christian Poles, one of them a former Polish Viceconsul, were found shot through the head in the Sheikh Ader quarter of Jerusalem. It is said that Jews executed” them.