Opinion

Jews hold protest in Palestine Deadly German ship leaves Belfast Bullock stops Derry train

JEWS throughout Palestine are observing tomorrow as a day of protest against the British white paper - on the eve of the reassembly of the British parliament. The white paper of 1939 prohibited further Jewish immigration into Palestine and land sales to Jews. Mass meetings will be held throughout the region and a six-hour standstill of all work, business and traffic is expected.

The municipality of Tel Aviv, the largest purely Jewish city in the world, today issued an appeal to the crowds to maintain discipline and disperse quietly after the protest meetings.

Newspaper cuttings were posted up on hoardings and on the walls in the city describing an incident where seven Jews were reported to save been wounded in an attempt to save illegal immigrants from arrest by the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force.

A Reuter report from Damascus said that Syria was concentrating troops along her frontiers to check illegal Jewish immigrants from passing through the country on their way to Palestine.

The United States representative, Karl Mundt told a press conference in Rome yesterday that free immigration of Jews into Palestine would "result in bloodshed".

It would not be helpful at this time if President Truman's recommendation to drop immigration barriers were adopted. Mr Mundt, a member of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, is on a fact-finding mission to Eastern Europe and the Arab world.

Professor S Brodetsky, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, described as "exaggerated and dangerous propaganda" reports that the Palestine Question might lead to the Jews or the Arabs fighting. However, he added: "There is a limit to what can be imposed on any population." Addressing a special meeting of over two hundred Jews in London, he said: "There is no people in the world that abhors violence as much as we Jews do."

A GERMAN surface raider captured during the First World War left Belfast on Saturday evening carrying 8,000 tons of high explosives and poison gas. It will be her last trip as she and her contents will be sunk two hundred miles out to sea, at a safe distance from shipping lanes and fishing grounds.

The vessel, the Wairuna, which was built in Germany in 1914, was taken over by the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand after her capture for coastal trading, and was recently bought by the British Ministry of War Transport for the purpose of disposing of these agents of war.

THERE was some dislocation of traffic on the Derry and Lough Swilly Railway on Saturday morning when a light engine travelling to Buncrana became derailed a short distance outside the city. The accident was caused through a bullock having wandered onto the track through a gate that had been left open. A breakdown gang was quickly on the scene and had the line cleared in time for the next train from Buncrana to proceed to Derry.