The Israeli Foreign Office today submitted a formal protest to the U.N. central truce supervision board charging that arms and other military supplies are reaching the Arab countries and are being brought from home bases to front line positions. After listing the Arab violations, the Foreign Office asked the mediator what he intends to do about them.
Specifically, the Israelis said that large quantities of arms and ammunition were recently unloaded in the Iraq port of Basra and distributed from there throughout the Middle East. Other military shipments have been discharged at Beirut, apparently on consignment for the Arab Legion. In addition the Israeli protest declared there is a daily arms traffic between Beirut and Transjordan.
Dr. Bernard Joseph, Israeli military governor of Jerusalem, today advised the mediator against moving U.N. mediation headquarters from Rhodes to Jerusalem. He said the city was dangerous and the “war is not over yet.”
The Israeli State Council tonight promulgated a manpower mobilization law which was put into practical effect by Labor Minister Mo1rdecai Bentov last June 16. The law provides for the mobilization for labor of all men over military age, but under 55, and provides that all women up to 50 years of age may be drafted for essential labor. The Council also approved another de facto situation — that all Israeli laws are applicable to areas under occupation by the Israeli Army.
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