Evening star., 1948-06-01
Israeli Planes
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Jews Internationally
Accept U. N. Appeal
For Ceuse-Fire
BY the Associoted Press

CAIRO, June l.-JeWlSh air
men bombed Amman. Trans
Jordan, a few hours before Arab
League leaders met there today
on a cease fire proposal for the
Palestine war.
Dispatches from King Abdullah' s
little capital across the Jordan from
Palestine said the bombing aroused
bitterness. Observers there said the
raids may have blasted away the
faint hope of a United Nations
truce. the deadlipe for replies on
which Is 7 pm. (EDT) today.
CAT Lake Success the state of
Israel announced that it had un-
conditionally accepted the United
Nations appeal for cease-fire in
Palestine. The Israel spokesman
said, however, that the commune
cation from Tel Aviv contained a
Jewish Interpretation of what
the cease-f1re was understood to
mean. The Arab reply was still
awaited)
Arabs Massing Around Tel Aviv.
Jewish headquarters in Tel Aviv
announced: Planes of the Israel
Air Force bombed military targets
at Amman during the night" The
communique gave no details.
The attack came as the Arab
allies reported their troops and
armor massing on 40-mile front
in an effort to throw a moose around
Tel Aviv, the heart of Israel.
The British announced In Haifa
that an RAF field near Amman also
was struck. Arab officials in Trans
Jordan said six Arab civilians, in
Guiding two children. were killed.
The British put the total dead at II,
and the wounded at 80.
Officials in Amman said only one
plane was sighted in each of four
runs over Amman, the last just at
dawn. They said about 10 bombs,
some of them incendiaries, were
dropped, but that the only property
damage was to building housing
a workers family. The British said
several grounded aircraft Of the field
were damaged.
Tel Aviv has been the target for
Egyptian attacks from the air vir-
tually every day since May 16. One
such attack wrecked bus terminal
with heavy loss of life.
Arabs Insist on Conditions.
Indications in Cairo had been
that the Arabs would accept a four
week truce plan of the Security
Council only on condition the Jews
would repudiate their new state OF
Israel. The Jews have given every
indication they would resist such
demand.
A high official Arab League source
in Cairo said ''it is impossible that
Arab countries will accept the Sc
curity Council cease-f1re proposal
without conditions These condl-
tions, the informant said, were likely
to be:
Hating of all Jewish immigration;
hating of all shipments OF arms to
Palestine; Arab supervision to see
that truce terms are observed; re-
quotation of partition and the jew
ish state.
The Arabs will continue the siege
OF Jews in Jerusalem even if the
cease-f1re order is accepted, the in
formant said and nothing will be
allowed to reach them"
No Letup in Fighting.
While the political leaders talked
there was no sign of letup in the
fighting. Official word from botl,
sides indicated major battle is
brewing along winding 40-mil'
front from Jerusalem northwest te
Tulkarm. an inland city in Arab
territory, equidistant from Haifs
and Tel Aviv.
Besides bombing Amman, Jewish
headquarters in Tel Aviv said, Is
raeli planes struck at Tulkarm
where Arab troops were reported
being concentrated.
Roads leading to the town were
attacked. The aircraft also hit Arat
concentrations at Tyreh village
south of Tulkarm, and along the
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway in the
bloody Latrun area.
The Jews acknowledged that Iraq
troops, moving south, are only nine
miles from Tel Aviv at one point
One Arab informant said 1raqi sol.
diers were only three miles from the
city, but this has not been con-
firmed.
An Arab Higher Committee bull
letin released in Cairo claimed Iraq
troops had cut of Tel Aviv from
the port Of Haifa by taking the
seacoast town of Natanya, 18 mile!
north of Tel Aviv This was not
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