European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1948 the stars and stripes Page 3 claim victories in 3 new raids March 14 Havanah claimed today that it had killed at least 20 arabs and wounded 20 others yesterday in a punitive raid on afr a Village five Miles Southwest of Lake Havanah said that among the dead was a to ranking officer of the Arab military who was identified by documents in his the jews claimed to have blown up several houses in the Village they had been used by the arabs As a base for attacks on jewish transports along a nearby and As a Center for Arab it was revealed today that Auto mobiles belonging to the iranian and ethiopian consulates bad been stolen at pistol Point by it was announced that two houses in the Hilly romans land Between the Karamon and Retavia quarters of were destroyed late last believed to be members of the Stern penetrated the Arab Quarter and placed explosives the allegedly bad housed Arab reports said the Stern its approached the Arab Quarter in two a fierce Battle ensued when the arabs opened up with machine gun fire and threw Gren Ades at the reports from Tel Aviv said 10 arabs and six Havanah men were killed last evening in fighting at Valuja Northeast of when a jewish armoured column of Supply trucks forced its Way through Arab Road blocks to deliver sup plies to a communal Settle ment East of the Arab Village which has been besieged for two the Haifa Jaffa Road was impassable for several hours today following an explosion which demolished a the Span Vyas reported Mohave been blown Early today by Costa Rica revolt mags martial Law san Costa March 14 government proclaimed Law throughout Costa Rica last night As a rightist revolt moved across the As fighting spread northward into three including the important town of san troops Here confiscated an edition of Diario Costa Rica after a shoot ing incident in front of the rightist newspapers the paper is owned and edited Otilio rejected whose sup porters began the rebellion yester All Amateur radio operators were off the the Borders remained but patrols were Italy election1 drive reaches fever pitch action on the Palestine front an Arab child is framed in the Bullet shattered window of an Arab school bus target in the spreading conflict in while below a Carload of injured Are taken from the ruins of the jewish Agency building in Jerusalem background wrecked by an Arab bomb smuggled into the compound in an automobile stolen from the in Sloan proposes total tax to 50 per cent March 14 chairman of the Ward of general motors proposed yesterday that total tax business profits and individual incomes be limited to a maximum it 50 per one should be required to More than half his in to the maintenance of gov Sloan said in a special issued in Advance of Gas report for Balkan bloc seen preparing to halt new greek offensive March 14 officials Here said yester Day they Are convinced the Balkan bloc is getting ready to meet the greek army Spring offensive with stronger backing of their belief is based on two reported developments new arms Are already beginning to show up from across the North Kern Frontier to offset the effect of military Aid to and official reports Tell of an Campaign in Yugo Romania and Bulgaria to to Roshkov goes to Budapest March 14 Vor Shilov headed delegation which arrived to attend celebrations Centenary of the hungarian of radio Moscow Manchuria City taken by reds March 14 chinese official sources admitted today that communists have battered into Szepi Ngkai and last Hopes Are gone of saving that manchurian the government communique also confirmed that communists Cap tured Power Center 60 Miles East of the communique said the Kirin Garrison with Drew to with it More than Szepi Ngkai is an important rail Junction 305 Miles Northeast of government sources minimized communist entry into the City saying its Long isolation had robbed it of strategic inde pendent dispatches that the main communist forces which had been tied up at seeping Kai have been shifting South to at tack Northern Gateway to us on summer time March 14 goes on summer advancing clocks one hour at 3 Greenwich raise funds for the greek these three along with deny they Are giving for Mal Aid to the but fund raising has open official in Bulgaria the wife of prime minister Georgl Dimitrov is head ing an organization to support the greek in according to state department members of some communist tons were asked cent of their pay for the labor Organiza to give 10 per Italy Premier honors War dead March 14 Mier a3cide de Gas Peri paid homage last night to the Amer ican soldiers died fighting on italian soil during world War in a message to James in connection with today ceremony of exhuming the first american War dead for transportation to the from the old Beach military cemetery Ai de Gasperi said on Titis solemn occasion we turn a thought recognition and fraternity towards 4hose who fell gloriously on italian soil fighting alongside our we will not fail the cause of Liberty and peace for which they made the supreme Sailor washed ashore from stranded trawler March 14 one unidentified member of the Crew of the trawler Pine was washed ashore alive this while other members were still lashed to As huge Waves beat continuously at the Small the trawler was stranded on a submerged Rock at one mile from the the actual number of the Crew on the which is from is not but previous reports said they were believed to number Vatican Calls charge false March 14 uplift Wing socialist n e n n charged yesterday the Vatican was Headquarters of the biggest cur Rency Black Market in Europe and said a leftist Victory in the april National election would mean a thorough investigation of the Blunt statement in the party newspaper was part the Volu Minous Campaign barrage which the socialist communist election front has directed against the Vatican in connection with the Case of a defrocked priest and the executive Secretary of the property the Vazcan replied immediately to the newest leftist charge with an official communique in the Semi official Vatican newspaper Osser Vatore the communique referred to the malignant and ignoble insinuations made and advanced by certain press during the past few we an in a position to declare that the special administration of the holy see has always kept itself far from any maintain ing continuously its activity in the most rigorous respect of the civil dispositions in financial and Exchange it the left Wing socialist statement reportedly caused Quick reaction among some communist leaders who believed the charge against the Vatican might Hurt their Prelec Tion Campaign by marking them again a openly free Sale of us tires March 14 tourists were informed today that they will be allowed to buy new tires by the end of March without a communism biggest issues apr 18 March 14 be came a Battleground Between the european recovery program and communism today As 33 speakers fired the nations election Campaign to a fever Little More than a month remains before some italians vote april for a new the election will decide whether Italy looks West to the United states or East to touring the provinces from St cily to the party leaders drummed away either for or against the Marshall this Ona subject promises to become the campaigns leading Interior minister Mario Scelba told a crowd in the that America will give Aid 1o to reinforce our demo cratic regime and combat com denies police state aim Scelba is the governments Mili sary Boss whose get Tough Campaign with communists me last year broke the Back of leftist labor Scelba denied leftist accusations that the governments Christian Democrat party aimed at setting up a police he asked what is this popular state Nenni pro communist socialist Leader Pietro Nenni talks about is this the same As in where for political opposition lists there remains Only suicide Scelba said Italy communists Are hiding behind the camouflage another popular this is a form in which communism presents itself in other which sooner or later fall under dictator Marshall plan attacked communist speakers entered most their attacks against the Marshall communist vice Secretary Luigi speaking at the naval base of in the far said the plan would against the interests of the italian communist Mauro at coupled his attack against the Marshall plan with a sideswipe at the Vatican for its Connivance wit h Exmon Signor Ciprico Edoardo Prettner Cip former Vatican official under arrest numerous alleged informed political sources speculated Over the possibility that foreign minister Carlo Sforza May seek an Extension of the Western Union of France and the Benelux countries to include he left yesterday for Paris to attend an International Ference on the Marshall Fiance ask Byrnes to take Case March 14 Axel Ongstad said today he had asked James former Secretary of to present his Fiancee claim to 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