Security Council Truce Resolution Adopted; Jews Hit Britain As Supervisor of Terms

The General Assembly will resume its special session on Palestine tomorrow morning following adoption during the week-end of a Security Council resolution calling on both the Jews and Arabs in Palestine to accept a truce under supervision of the British until May 15.

The Council did not decide, as originally planned, to appoint a U.N. commission to supervise the carrying out of the truce. Moshe Shertok, speaking in behalf of the Jewish Agency, declared that if the British were left in charge of supervising the armistice it would be regarded by the Jews “as if no arrangement whatever had been made to insure the effective implementation and observance of the truce provisions.”

The Agency, meanwhile, this week-end revealed charges it had submitted to the U.N. that “murderous attacks by heavily-armed military formations against Jewish villagers and Jewish transport must be placed at the door of the Arab Legion.”The statement was contained in a latter to the U.N. Palestine Commission in reply to a British Government declaration that investigations of Legion-Jewish exchanges of fire established that in no instance did the Arabs fire first.

“The gravity of the situation with reference to the Arab Legion will be realized in the light of repeated statements in the Arab press that upon the termination of the British Mandate, the Legion will be available for action against the Jewish Community in Palestine,” the Agency statement said. “The matter is greatly aggravated by the fact that, according to authentic information received from Palestine, the British authorities, in the process of evacuation, are turning over to the Arab Legion large quantities of military stores, ammunition and equipment for latter’s own use,” the statement emphasized.

The Agency said the British had, within the past few weeks, turned over to the Arab Legion 60 armored cars, 8,000 mortar bombs, 100,000 rounds of ammunition and nearly 1,000,000 gallons of gasoline. “Stocks now held by the Arab Legion are abnormally high and there is also evidence that equipment of disbanded Transjordan Frontier Force is being transferred to the Legion,” the Agency declared.