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5 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, MONDAY. MARCH 3, 1947 AMERICAN HELP FOR GREECE Reply to Britain SERVICE DEMANDS ON NATION'S MAN-POWER Uneasiness in Labour Ranks BACK-BENCHERS SEEKING OPPORTUNITY FOR DISCUSSION From our Political Correspondent BACK TO WORK TO-DAY Home Cuts Stay PROBLEM OF FUEL RATIONING From onr London Stall The fact that factories everywhere are allowed to start work to-day does not mean that the fuel emergency is over. It has passed out of its most critical stage, but there remain dangers to industrial production which will call for the greatest measure of PALESTINE TERRORISTS TAKE OFFENSIVE Army's Counter-Measures MARTIAL LAW IMPOSED ON JEWISH DISTRICTS Thorough Search for the Gunmen FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PREPARING A PEACE Moscow Meeting THE NOW FAMILIAR PATTERN From Alexander Werth Moscow, March 2. In a week 6r less the delegations to the Foreign Ministers' conference will be arriving in Moscow. It was politically important to the Russians that the conference on Germany, or, at any rate, the first of the conferences on Germany, should meet here, though no one pretends that Moscow is a convenient place for a conference involving so much organisation and the arrival of so many people or that people here have not been put to an No special partv meeting has vet been London, Sunday.

This week may see the organisation of resistance within the Parliamentary Labour party to the Government's plan to hold over a million men in the armed forces this year, and to keep 450,000 workers supplying them. Ministers could easily be faced with a demonstration of hostility on this issue as powerful if not more so than was organised against the Government's foreign policy during the debate on the Address at the beginning of this session. If Ministers remain so immersed in the conduct of business (some of which they have saddled on themselves by too much zeal for legislation) as not to take heed of the murmuring within the party, they will be askiqg for trouble and will probably get it. The issue becomes urgent this week because the House of Commons will probably be debating the economic budget" on three days of next week, and the budget includes the figures for the armed forces Mr James Callaghan, who is chairmen of the Defence end Services Group of the Parliamentary Labour party, asked Mr. Greenwood on Thursday for an opportunity to debate the adequacy of the reasons put forward in defence of the proposed strengths of the forces and warned him that "there is considerable concern in the country about the size of these obligations T.U.C.

CRITICAL Short of announcing a reduction in the strengths of the forces, the Government might ease its relation with critics within the partv bv explaining its position at a party meeting. In the normal course the next meeting of the Parliamentary Labour party would have been held on Wednesday, but the meeting has had to be cancelled because of the pressure on members' time of House op Commons committee work three committees are summoned for Wednesday morning. Jerusalem, March 2. About a quarter of a million Jews are now confined to their homes in Palestine and deprived of normal everyday facilities such as banking, telephoning, and using the mails for doing business, and limited in the time allowed for shopping. The ordinary criminal courts have been suspended and two types of military courts established instead.

One of these is a summary court presided over by one officer, who has the power to pass a sentence of up to one year's imprisonment and a fine not exceeding 100. This is, in effect, the statutory martial law imposed to-day on the Tel Aviv. Ramatgan. and Petah Tikva area, and in a part of Jerusalem, and is the condition to which this country has been brought by terrorism. After yesterday's attacks, the most extensive yet seen in Palestine, there iould be little doubt that this long threatened step would be taken.

The Tel Aviv area was bound to be affected but about other parts or the country there was doubt. Haifa has lately been an active centre of terrorism, but martial, law could not be applied there without at the same time touching almost as many Arabs as Jews, and crippling port activity, hence hitherto nothing has been done there. The same considerations of mixed communities applied to Jerusalem, though less strongly, because defined Jewish areas do exist LIMITED MEASURE IN JERUSALEM After a long conference in Government House last night it was decided to apply to-day's heavv measure to only one part of Jerusalem, in which some 10,000 of the poorer Jews, mainly! Yemenites and Orthodox Jews, live, but excluding the central Jewish business ports. The quarter shut down to-day lias been searched many times by the Army. In all the martial-law areas shops have been closed, postal and telephone facilities withdrawn, vehicle traffic forbidden, and the right of entry and exit into the areas refused.

To-morrow and every day while martial law is maintained food shops and some chemists will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.. and essential food supplies such as fruit, bread, and vegetables will be maintained. Only during those three hours will the residents be allowed out, and no gathering over six persons permitted. In Tel Aviv no business will be transacted at all in Jerusalem only the Jews living in the other suburbs will be able to go to their oflices.

Everyone whose whole work is with births, deaths, and medical cases will be fiee to move. All this has no stipulated time limit. "Operation Hippo," as it is called, suspends the criminal courts and substitutes military courts and summary military courts. The first will deal with offences previously dealt with by military courts and offences against the civil criminal code in the Hippo" areas. These are open to the public.

The summary courts will sit under a senior officer having the power to deal summarily with all minor offences and presumably not open to the public. All the areas under the Army will be thoroughly combed again. The police do not take part in this JEWS' REFUSAL TO CO-OPERATE A Government statement reminds the public that the Government had invited the Jewish organisations to call- upon the community to co-operate against the terrorists, but they had refused. More severe measures now become necessary as a consequence of this lack of co-operation against bloodshed and terrorism which the Jewish institutions nave themselves condemned. Since the request to co-operate was made.

48 outrages have occurred in which over 20 persons were killed and over 30 injured. Yesterday's outrages were linked by evidence with the Tel Aviv area, from which it is known that operations of the dissident groups are conducted." For instance, vehicles used in the Jerusalem and Haifa attacks yesterday were stolen from Tel Aviv. For these reasons martial law was being applied from 1 15 p.m. to-day in the Tel Aviv area. In Jerusalem it began at 8 a.m.

The Jewish Agency said in a statement to-night that it intended to pursue its efforts to stop the terrorists and to undermine their organisation, though it was hampered by the lack of adequate powers." It deplored the loss of life in the latest crimes. The Agency replied to the Government's criticism that it refused to co-operate. It declared that it failed to secure from the Government any help in solving the question of immigration which would have assisted in rousing the community. The Government was now seeking to punish the entire community but was unlikely to deter the terrorists Yesterday before the martial law announcements were made the Jewish community in Palestine decided on a self-imposed curfew to-night from seven o'clock to eleven o'clock as a protest against the transhipment of the illegal immigrants on Friday. To-night every Jew in Palestine was indoors voluntarily or compulsorily.

Manchester Guardian' Service NOT A PUNITIVE MEASURE General Gale, who is in charge of operations in Tel Aviv, reported by Reuter, said yesterday: The isolation of this area will continue until terrorism is eradicated. This is not full martia. law but a drastic step to put down activities against the State. The troops not being used for punitive purposes and they have no quarrel with the general community The problem is to get hold of the terrorists with the minimum inconvenience to the populace. These illegal activities must be paralysed no matter how long it takes.

iMARCH BRINGS SNOW AND SUNSHINE More Roads Reopened in the North ASKED TO KEEP HER TROOPS From our own Correspondent New York, March 2. The United States Government has asked the United Kingdom to continue to maintain British forces in Greece and has given assurances in reply to the British Government's proposals suggesting that the United States should grant economic aid to Greece. The request and the assurances were contained in a Note which Mr. Dean Acheson, United States Under Secretary of State, handed yesterday to Lord Inver-chapel, the British Ambassador in Washington. It seems certain, however, that the State Department's proposals must also receive Congressional approval and this is a very different matter.

The American press over the weekend has been filled with discussion of the new role in world affairs that the United States is now asked to play. Journalists content them selves with propounding the problems raised and do. not attempt to predict the luture. OPPOSITION In the country there is certain to be a bitter outcry against a proposal to spend ureece in the next eighteen months The protest will come in the main from four groups as follows 1. The Communists, of course, will object strongly on the ground that the action is Dart Of the bllildin2 Of a rnrHnn ennifain around Russia The Communists are not important in numbers but are verv vocal and possess good channels of communica- uon witn trie press 2.

The non-Communist Left-wing is also likely to object on the sround that aid is being given to a thoroughly objectionable vjreen mng ana a lemi-r ascist regime. Many stories have been circulated in the United States recently of horrible cruelties practised by the Green Government on its political opponents, who. it is asserted, have been exiled to -the island in the ZEgean with little food, water, clothing, or shelter. The non-Communist Left wing would like to support Social Democracy in Greece, while realising that there is little chance of this in the iear future 3. The third group against giving assistance are the isolationists inside and outside Congress, who form a more powerful body than most people realise.

They argue that the United States has no real interests in the Mediterranean, that there can be no important trade, present or potential, with Greece, and they are against as Representative Albert Engel (Republican, of Michigan), chai.man of the subcommittee oflhe House Military Excenditures Committee, expressed it yesterday "pulling the fat from the fire for Britain." 4. A fourth group consists of those who are pro'esting against the high cost of Federal Government and who do not want to take on further liabilities President Truman prooosed a budqet of more than 9.000.000.000. Even after the Republicans have nibbled at it the sum' will stUl be in the neighbourhood of 8.000,000,000. ON THE OTHER SIDE Against all this one important fact must be put. A large part of American public opinion fears and distrusts Russia and feels that she should he checked.

Even so, many of these Americans fear Russia onlv in terms of a possible actual attack on the United States, and they do not believe that the Russian penetration of the Balkans is a really serious matter for this country. They are the same Americans who let the European war continue for more than two years before entering it. and did so only after an actual attack by the Japanese and other members of the Axis had declared war on the United States. Proposals for United States relief throughout the woilo. including Greece, which are now betore the American people involve a sum of from 500,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 in the next two or three years.

It is by no means certain how much of this sum American taxpayers are prepared to give. If funds are made available it is possible that Americans may insist that relief should be given only to countries safely outside the Russian orbit and distributed not by any international organisation but onlv bv Americans. DISAGREEABLE FACTS In short the British people must not count upon the United States actually taking over any real part of the responsibility from British world-wide commitments which are now becoming an intolerable burden. Some progress has been made the United States is sincerely trying to co-operate in the United Nations. It seems fairly certain, however, that this country will do nothing effective about Palestine will send no more troops abroad and may perhaps withdraw many of those already in former enemy countr'es will keep its gates c.osed against refugees and will spend for relief in a niggardly spirit and only for American and not for international purposes These are disagreeable facts but it is better to face them now than to make important decisions on false premises.

REVIVAL OF NAZISM "Danger Not to Be Ignored" General B. Ecer, representative of the Czechoslovak Government at the Nurem berg trial, who is on a lecture tour in this country, gave some interesting impressions of the Nazi hierarchy to a Manchester Guardian representative on Saturday. In his talks on the lessons of Nuremberg he emphasises especially the need for solidarity among tne occupying Powers. Tins he regards as the first essential in dealing with a people who respect force as no other nation does. Speaking from personal experience of the American zone, he thought that the Americans were tackling denazification with great energy, and he believed that the same might be said of the British zone, but there were at least half a million young Germans with whom, apparently, nothing could be done, and as the recently discovered underground movement illustrated, the danger of a revival of Nazism- was real and not to be ignored.

As the solidarity of the Great Powers developed that danger would diminish. ON THREE ENGINES Thirty-two passengers, including ten children, landed safely at London Airport last night after the inner port engine of the Skyways York air liner carrying them to Curacao, Dutch West Indies, failed soon after leaving Amsterdam The engine cut as the "plane flew over Antwerp. The pilot. Captain i w. ci, klUUKU VMUk, UU iaK( decided to head for London.

Few of the mavcxiua were dwdie iuai i ng was wrong. arranged, but there is a good deal of feeling within the party about the reluctance of Ministers to take the oartv into its confidence." It was stated after the revolt on the debate on the Address that the Government might have saved itself this exposure if Ministers nad been more accessible to the oartv. The pacifists, of course, will support any move to reduce the size of the forces, but the trade unionists, too, are extremely worried about the position The T.U.C. is said to be critical of Ministers for not having discussed with it beforehand the proposed strengths of the Services, and this criticism is being taken up by trade unionist members. Members in touch with their constituencies are also aware of uneasiness among their supporters.

THE ISSUE If the Government affords the. party no opportunity to express itself on manpower before any public debate takes place, then party discords will be revealed in public. It is not known yet on what terms the House will debate the economic situation If the Government puts down a motion in support of the White Paper.it is possible that an amendment might be tabled calling for a reduction in the size of the armed forces This would not. of course, be supported by the Opposition, but it might have surprisingly large Labour support. Tne Government may not invite the House to express its approval as the White Paper is more a survey than a statement of policy a motion for approval might be difficult to draft, but might conduct the debate on a motion for adjournment of the House In such a case it is possible that a motion might be put down on the order-paper just as Mr.

Crossman's motion on foreign affairs was put down. The issue between the Government and the critics is quite simple should men be found to carry out a given number of commitments, or should our commitments be based on the number of men who can properly be provided to carry them out farms in the areas of Croglin. Gamblesby. Shap, and Caldbeck. Douglas Andrew jones, agea u.

a taxi-cab owner, of Llangollen, was founil deaa at the wheel of a car at Glyndyfrdwy (Merionethshire) early yesterday. He nad taken a party home from a dance There was a skid mark and it is believed that Jones, on feeling ill. applied the brakes When he was late in returning from Corwen on Saturday night his wife walked about six miles through the snow, carrying a spade to help to dig him out in case the car was snowbound. She saw the empty car and was to'd by villagers that he was dead SUNNIEST WEEK-END SINCE AUGUST From oor Meteorological Correspondent London, Sunday Night. Although with the dear night skies the frost has been severe during the week-end there has been over large areas of Great Britain the sunniest spell since last August To-dav 10.1 hours were recorded at Eastbourne and 10 hours at Worthing.

Littlehampton. Torquay, Ross-on-Wye, Aberystwyth, and Morecambe. London had over nine hours' sunshine both yesterday and to-day. and they were the sunniest two days since August. Hard frosts occurred over large areas on each of the last two nights, with Scotland reporting the lowest temperatures On Friday night in Wigtownshire the temperature just above the snow fell to zero, while last night at Dal-whinnie the air temperature fell to 5 degrees ant3 thfl temperature above the snow to degrees below zero.

MORE NIGHT FROST At one o'clock this morning the tem-Derature at Ringway Airport was 20.3 degrees, or 11.7 degrees of frost. At midnight it was 20.0. The highest reading there during the day was 37 degrees between 3 and 4 p.m. In Manchester, the highest point yesterday was 38 degrees at 9 p.m. the temperature had fallen to 24.2.

NIGHTS ft I I to MAB.I WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE STILL. SEVERE But Production Higher Washington, March 2. In spite of an increase in production by seven per cent, the world food situation is only slightly better than last year and serious shortages still exist in Eurone and the Far East. A statement issued by the United States Department of Agriculture to-day said that in several countries the present low rations will have to be severely reduced unless large imports are received before the next harvest." The Department said that the countries where the shortages would be most severe were Russia, Italy. Germany.

Austria, Rumania, and countries in the Far East Sown crops in several European countries and North Africa were smaller than last year and the severe winter in Europe had caused severe damage to winter grains and oil seeds. The 1947 crops of these commodities might be below those of last year. Reuter. voluntary economy in the factories and a continuance of the compulsory economy in the home and in other places which have been treated as "domestic during the past three weeks. air (juy INott-Bower said on Saturday that the position in the next two weeks will continue to be critical, and if there were any relaxation by domestic consumers we might again find' ourselves in crisis conditions, especially if the weather continued cold.

As far as London is concerned few electric circuits have evei been dead during the restricted hours. Domestic consumers have been able to resist the temptation to switch on the current even though they knew it was available, and the Ministry of Fuel and Power is luoking to them to continue his self-denial, which of course remains compulsory even after the return of current to industry. The special coal committee of Ministers and experts will continue to do the sort of staffwork it has been doing during the worst of the crisis Its first task will be to sort out disorganisation caused by the power cuts. At the same time it will be considering the question of fuel rationing. Domestic electricity is, in eirect, rationed now by the cuts, and provided lhatftnere is no return to extravagant use of light and power outside the restricted hours it is possible that the system will be continued instead of imposing any more, rigid rationing.

HOUSEHOLD COAL There is no sign yet of what scheme may be adopted for the rationing oi gas, coal, and paraffin, but it seems unlikely that any new method of rationing solid fuel will be introduced before May 1, when the new coal year begins. Allocations have already been arranged up to April 31 and will probably not be disturbed Although more coal was delivered to merchants in London in February than in January and deliveries generally have been higher than last winter there are still manv complaints from domestic users who have not had their full allocations. They would welcome any system which would give them a guaranteed minimum of fuel instead of an illusory maximum. Housewives who nave suffered so mucn aiscomiort inconvenience lately would probably be glad to know exactly how much fuel they may expect over the remaining weeks of cold weather, and if the rationing system for solid fuel begins in May it might help them to build up emergency stocks during the warmer weather against next winter, when the general shortage is likeiy to be comparable with that existing now, though breakdown may be avoided by the measures recently adopted. At the end of this week coal prices will be increased.

These are the first increases since 1939 of which the benefit will go to the coal merchants, and they range from lOd. a ton in the Midlands to 3s. 4d. a ton in the South-east. House coal will not be ircreased in price in London, but boiler fuel will go up by 3s.

4d. a ton. FREER MOVEMENT A report issuer' by -he Ministry of Fuel on Saturday showed that there had been a fair degree of improvement in coal movement during the previous 24 hours. Most railway lines dealing with coal traffic had been cleared and 16 vessels carrying over 27,000 tons of coal had left for London and ports in the South and South-east. ships were entering the Thames at the rate of one an hour yesterday, and it was estimated that over 20.000 tons of coal had passed up the river in twelve hours.

Sunday working continued in many pits yesterday, and overtime was wcrked on Saturday to move coal from wagons to ships- in Northumberland and Durham North-weat fuel news on page 6 HUTTON ILL May Take No Further Part in Test L. Hutton. the Yorkshire and England batsman, has been removed to hospital suffering from laryngitis. He will be unfit for playing crickel for at least two days and it is feared he will take no further part in the final Test at Sydney. When 'plav was resumed this morning following'a blank day on (Saturday Evans and Smith continued the England first innings with the score at 237 for six wickets.

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G. Tribe. DR. SARGENT DELAYED Vienna, Mahcb 2. Passengers on the Arlberg express which arrived hre to-day said that Dr.

Malcolm tne had Uaar, Aatinast at tho frontier of the Soviet occupation zone of Austria. He was travelling 10 Vienna to conduct a concert bv the Vienna Symphony Orchestra Passengers who have not the correct permits for entry to the Soviet zone are frequently forced to leave the train until their papers are put in order. neuter. FOUR DEAD IN EXPLOSION New York March 2. Four people are reported to have been killed and twenty injured in an explo sion which destroyed a three-storey building in the heart of Chicago to-day.

A fire broke out in the wreckage. It is feared many are buried in the ruins. The cause of the disaster was believed to be a gas leak. Beater. enormous amount oi trouble ana inconvenience.

The question of accommodation' is serious and is more than anything else at the root of the Russian authorities' reluctance to accept, for example, an unlimited number of press correspondents from abroad. four principal hotels the Moskva (where normally only Russian visitors stay) and the three others the Metropole, the National, and the Savoy have mostly been reserved for foreigners, and scores of cleaners, painters, paper-hangers, electricians, and plumbers nave been busy puttinc these places in order Much new furniture is being carted to these hotels, where the junior members of the delegations and the outside correspondents will stay. Tne senior memoers of the delegations will stay in their respective embassies, and nere also there has been a continuous shifting of beds and furniture. At the modern twelve-storey Moskva hotel a. large number of rooms have already bean vacated by their occupiers, and downstairs there will be various conference-rooms and press-rooms.

Tne Foreign Ministers will meet as before in the Russ.an Foreign Office mans.on Spiridonovka. formerly ihe private mansion of one of Moscow's textile kings, who, according to leg-nd. gambled it away one day at cards to Moscow's sugar king. The hall is a piece of garish Victorian Gothic, but the white-marbled conference-room, with its cream and gold satin furniture, is in good taste and is finely proportioned Until last year one wall not that it improved the room was decorated with Salisbury's large of the signing of the Anslo-Soviet alliance bv Mr. Molotov and Mr.

Eden in Mr Churchill's presence in London it. May. 1942. There is sotre speculation whether it will be hung up again. FIRST SESSION ONLY? Mr Bevin arid other senior members of the British delegation will stav at the British Embassy, on the south side of the river, and have from their windows the finest view of the Kremlin, just opposite on the other river bank.

The delegation's offices will be concentrated at the "Old House." the former building of the British Embassy, now used as an annexe, which houses the consulai and other services. This is five minutes' run from Spiridonovka and ten minutes from the Embassy. Altogether there will be much running around in cars. Thoughts about the social side of the conference are tor the present weighed down by the immensity one might even say the enormity of the work to be done. The impression in diplomatic quarters here is that this is nnlv tHo fi ret coceinn rnnforonnp and that it will be followed by several others, and whatever happens about Austria, the German treaty may take a good part of a year to settle.

It is also confidently prophesied that there will be breakdowns and deadlocks from time to time, and banner headlines." especially In America, announcing complete collapse, whereupon something will happen and the conference will continue either right away or after an interval. MR. MOLOTOVS PROPOSALS The pre-conference atmosphere has been in some respects following the earlier pattern much mutual recrimination, particularly between the Russians and the Americans. The Russians are go-'ng to the conference with the same idea with which they went to the earlier conferences on the satellites' peace treaties that in the end nobody can afford a breakdown. Russia's basic ideas on Germany are contained In Mr.

Molotov's Paris speech on July 10 last and there has been no important departure from it The main ideas are a democratic central German Government without federalization, with denazification and reparations, an industrial capacity compatible with security for the other Powers, and four-Power control of the Ruhr without its detachment from the Reich. Federalisation would be carried out only if a German plebiscite favoured it. The Control Council must decide on the level of industry. The Russians have favoured reparations from current production. Leaving aside the more polemical matter published in the Russian press in recent months, the most important document was the recent statement by Marshal Sokolovsky seriously criticising the Anglo-American bi-zonal agreement for Western Germany.

The salient passage in it was that from the standpoint of German economy as a whole it was ludicrous to aim in two years at making the Anglo-American zone self-sufficient when in "reality nearly the whole of the industrial might of Germany in 'its present provisional frontiers was concentrated in the British and American zones. TWO PRINCIPAL PROBLEMS At the conference, denazification and reparations are likely to be the most important questions. These will probably engage a large part of the Moscow meeting. Whether the non-unanimous report of the Control Council, running -nto many hundreds of pages, will take up much time cannot be said. The Russians have insisted on this report being studied, but there ts the precedent of Mr.

Maisky's reparations report which, to save time, was set aside at the Potsdam Conference. In opposition to the federalisation of Germany the Russians ar one against three On the question of the Ruhr the stand about half-way between tne Anglo-Americans and the French, being opposed to the detachment of the Ruhr but insistent on four-Power control and, possibly, on international regime" within the framework of a single Germanv The deputies' report will be studied and it will emerge that most Questions are above all the UNDER COVER OF JEWISH SABBATH From oar Special Correspondent In spite of further snowfalls during the week-end coal trains are getting through to Lancashire without inter ruption, and the Royal Automobile 1 Club last night reported more reopened than newly blocked roads, taouth-west Lanjasmre is now citar, Chougn road conditions in the east ol the county are still very dimcuit. unesbire's main roaas are normai, out motorists are advised to avoid the secondary ones. A few bad patches of irozen snow are the only obstacles remaining in Statfordsh.re. In Derbyshire, the Baslow to Chesterfield and tne Cnesterfield to Sheffield roads have been reopened.

The Whaley Bridge to Baslow road through Chapel-en-le-Frith is open to single-une traffic, as is the Buxton to Ashbourne road. The main road from Manchester to Buxton over Long Hill and the route through Dove Holes are now open. The Sheffield to Baslow road is open to single-line traffic, and the Sheffield-Chesterfield-Baslow-Bakewell road is now clear. On the road from Sheffield to Grindleford Bridge only essential traffic is allowed The Snake Pass is still blocked, as are the roads from Hayfleld to Chapel-en-le-Frith and from Buxton to Leek. Congleton and Macclesfield.

FUEL JUST IN TIME An engine ana five coal trucks arrived at the fuel-starved village of Robin Hood's Bay. near Whitby, Yorkshire, during the week-end. The train, which had come a roundabout route from reached the village just in time, for aterday the railway was once again blocked by snowdrifts. The serious shortage of fodder for live stock on hill farms was considered at an executive committee meeting of the Cumberland and North Westmorland branch of the National Farmers union at Carlisle on Saturday. It was reported that about 150 tons of hay and straw were being sent from Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, and East Riding.

It will be allocated in the first place to hill COLD 25 10' Jerusalem. March 2. Terrorism was renewed yesterday in the middle of a hot afternoon of the Jewish Sabbath, Only once previously had the terrorists done murder on a Saturday. That was when British policemen were blown to bits while searching a ruined building some months ago. Having built up an illusion of the observance of their Sabbath, they have now used it to their advantage and have demonstrated that- they care as little for the sacred law as for the secular law.

At the time of the blowing up of the Officers' Goldsmith Club, opposite the Jewish Agency building, the Jews were beginning to emerge for their favourite weekly promenade of the streets. It would not be difficult for the terrorists to mingle with the crowd and the assault was forcefully carried out. As part of its elaborate plannings at least one Bren gun cost was established opposite the club next to the synagogue on the far side from the Agency building. The actual site of the gun was the garden of flats" adjoining the synagogue, and it is hard not to conclude that the men manning it were not seen by residents or passers-by. WEAK POINT FOUND The weak point in the club's strategic position, which was exploited by the terrorists, was the entrance to the military vehicle park between the club and the zone perimeter.

This gap was guarded by two men. The terrorists drove a loewt. former Army lorry through this under ccver of supporting fire and various diversionary explosions near L-y and stopped it next to the building. The men ran past the dead body of one of the guards who had PUNJAB CABINET RESIGNS Lahore. March 2.

Sir Hyat Khan Tiwana, Prime Minister of the Punjab, to-night submitted the resignation of his Cabinet to Sir Evan Jenkins, Governor of the Punjab. Reuter. RECORD COAL OUTPUT IN BRITISH ZONE Hamburg, March 2. Hud coal output in the British zone reached a new daily record on Thursday with 234,749 tons. About 5D.O0O tons a day has piled up at pitheads during the past few days, because of transport difficulties, increasing pithead stocks from 800,000 tons to 1.500,000 tons during February.

Coke production jumped from 495,000 tons in 1948 to 787,000 this year. Reuter. been shot, seized explosives lying primed in the lorry, put them through the windows, and then tried to run away. But two did not get away. They were caught by the soldiers who ran out of the billets behind the club.

FOREIGN EMPLOYEES KILLED Host of the 35 officers living in the building were out. Many of the victims identified so far were non-British employees. The work of clearing the wreckage and rescue has been going on continuously. Thirteen people were found dead two officers, one soldier, the N.A.A.F.I. manager of the club, who was an Italian three N.AA.F.I.

employees, including a Polish girl telephonist; one British police clerk and five people not so far identified. These are probably N.AA.F.I. employees also. In the street a police officer and some Jewish civilians were injured in hnng. The officer was one of the passenacrs in a passing police lorry who jumped off and joined in the battle, several British Army officers are among the total of 14 who were injured inside and outside the building.

The club had four storeys and most of the front was demolished, iseven officers and men were sunbathing on the roof at the time. When the firing began three came to the front of the parapet to see what was happsnine and fell to the street as the building collapsed. Remarkably enough they survived, and the other four who were left trapped in the rear part of the roof were also rescued aliw by the fire brieade up and down the length of Palestine other terrorist attacks were reported last night The casualties now stand at 19 dead and 26 injured. These figures are orobably final. The total number cf British personnel killed in all outrages yesterdav is 10.

consisting of two armv officers, one police officer, and seven soldiers. TheTimes Manchester Guardian' Service 'PLANE IN SEA PILOT KILLED Mr. W. S. Henry, managing director of the "Newtownards Chronicle," Co.

Down, was killed yesterday when a two-seater 'plane in which he was making a short flight alone crashed in Strangford Lough. The machine lost height and fell into the sea about 150 yards from theshore. A motor-boat which went to the rescue found the 'plane in shallow water. Mr. Henrv was dead when taken out of the cockpit, which was not submerged.

NO D.S.T. FOR EIRE Summer Time will operate in Eire from March 17 until November 2. There will be no Double Summer Time. Eire will thus start Summer Time one dav later than Britain. March 17 St Patrick's Day being a public holiday there.

The graph shows nightly minimum jtr temperatures at Ringway (Manchester), Kew, and Aberdeen since the severe weather began on January 21. They were recorded between 9 p.m on the date shown and nine o'clock the following morning. ATOMIC ENERGY AND FUEL PROBLEM Mr. Priestley's Question Mr. J.

Priestley, in a broadcast last night introducing the B.BC's week of talks on atomic energy, asked but did not answer the question, Can the use of atomic energy helo solve our, fuel problem "There may easily be a connection between a fuel crisis now and the possible uses of atomic energy in the near future." he said. "Even if 15 or only 1C per cent of our power did not have to be dug out of tne ground the whole story would soon br different." Our discovery of atomic energy had to begin with an example of destruction. because modern man, for all his talk, is far more urgently and passionately bent on destroying himself than he is on living at ease in the world." Can we use atnrrac enenrv productively before we I start ttsine it destructivelv again? If we can't, then its all op with some of jus certainly you and me.".