Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-27
u. n. Observers
Accuse Israel Of
Breaking Truce
Report Supporting
Egyptian Complaint
Goes Before Council
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, Dec. 27.-United Ma
tons observers in Palestine today
accused Israel of breaking the
Holy Land truce by attacking
Egyptian forces in the Negeb
Desert.
The charges were contained in q
lengthy report to the U. N. Security
Council over the signature of DR..
Ralph ]. Bunche, acting U. N.
mediator in Palestine.
The report. slated for discussion
by the Council today. supported
Egyptian complaints that Israeli
forces reopened hostilities in viola
ton Of the Councils truce order.
DR.. Bunche declared II have no
knowledge of any incidents which
could be claimed as a provocation
for the fighting in the Negeb."
Private Meeting Scheduled.
The Council will hold a private
meeting today to determine its
schedule for the immediate future.
1t faces challenges to its author
ity in Palestine and Indonesia. The
Council has ordered Netherlands
authorities to halt the fighting in
Indonesia and free Republican
leaders captured by Dutch forces.
A further hint Of Dutch defiance
OF the United Nations Security
Council was the announcement in
The Hague today that leaders of
the Indonesian Republic captured
December 10 are being moved to
Javanese Mountain hotels or "other
places outside Java" The Council
ordered their release last Friday.
Dutch Delegate Jan Herman Won
Royen told the Security Council
today Holland has not yet complied
with the Councils Christmas Eve
order to stop the fighting. He read
prepared statement by the Meth
erlands government saying it is still
studying its position with regard to
the order.
Russian Demands Action.
Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik
asserted the Netherlands statement
constituted a straightforward re-
fusal to end the fighting" He de-
manded that the council forthwith
order the Netherlands government
to halt military operations within
"a hours.
DR.. Bunche reported to the Coun-
Gil that on December 81 the Israeli
government expelled U. N. observers
from their posts with Israeli forces.
On the next day, he continued,
Israel declared 1t felt "bodnd to
reserve its freedom OF action"
The negotiator then asserted:
I'm view of all the above circum-
stances I must report to the Secur-
ity Council my inability to super
wise effectively the truce in the
Negeb."
The new Holy Land conflict was
brought to the Councils attention
by the Egyptian government which
charged in csbled message that
Israeli troops had begun widespread
attacks in violation of the Councils
truce order.
Egypt Demands Hearing.
Egypt demanded an emergency
hearing Of its complaint. A Council
majority decided it could not dis
cuss the Palestine situation until
official information was received
from U. N. observers on the spot.
M. Fawzi, Egypt's U. N. delegate,
meanwhile, charged in a letter to
the Council that the Jews were
following a persistent policy" of
violating the Holy Land truce "in
defiance of the Security Councils
orders and decisions"
On the basis of reports from Hol-
land and from both sides in the In
donesian fighting, the Council faced
defiance of the cease-fire order by
both the Dutch and the Repub-
licans.
Dutch sources here reported that
the Netherlands delegate, Jan Her
man Van Royen, will propose that
the Council endow the U. N. Truce
Comfnittee-the Good Offices Com
mittee " with new function.
There was no indication, however,
of what specific measures he will
propose.
Any proposal to change the char
acter of the Good Offices Committee
Is almost certain to start a wrangle
within the Council and might lead
to reopening the entire 1ndonesian
question.
Holland always has disputed the
Security Councils jurisdiction in
the Indonesian conflict.
Netherlands authorities in the
Indies appeared determined to carry
on their military campaign until
all detectives have been taken.