Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1948, Tokyo, Japan                              Weather forecast tuesday High Low conditions Tokyo 63 49 fair Kyoto 2 46 fair Seoul 56. 37 fail Sapporo .52 35 Cloudy and i City edition volume 4, number 244 share this paper monday october 18, 1948 share this paper up Apins Apps wire services Egypt forces t Israel army opens line by Eliav Simon Tel Aviv oct. 18 up israeli forces captured a strategic height which Threa tens to Cut off the bulk of the egyptian front zone forces from their base at Gaza in Southern Palestine combat reports reaching this jewish capital said  capturing the height Dis patches said the israeli troop created a serious breach in the egyptian lines. The egyptian were reported trying frantically to Seal the  unordered truce was shattered Over the weekend in intensifying fights in which both jews and egyptians were using planes heavy artillery armoured cars and tanks. The height reported captured by the jews was not identified because of a tightened news censorship by the israeli army co respondents were forbidden to visit the Southern areas and censors Xifu sed to permit publication of orders of the Day by the israeli commanders in the  United press dispatch from Haifa said heavy fighting had broken out on the shores of the sea of Galilee in the North and Sharp clashes were reported in Jerusalem. Officials at the truce Headquarters in Haifa said the United nations faced a crisis in its attempt to prevent the outbreak of full scale warfare Over All pales Tine r in Cairo it was agreed that there had been heavy fighting in the Gaza area of Southern Negev but it was asserted that the egyptian forces beat Back a Kera with Jie avy Gen. Ahmed Al Malawi commanding the egyptian for Ces in Southern Palestine reportedly told the in truce officials that his men would nonstop fighting until attacks by the israelis ceased. High military quarters her remained silent on the effect of the fighting on the truce As whole. The jewish Man in the Street was inclined to feel that for All practical purpose the truce was dead and would not be revived. Aboul Rahaman