The United Nations truce commission finally achieved a “real cease-fire” in Jerusalem when both the Jews and the Arabs agreed to end weeks-old exchange of shell and gun fire, it was reported here today. U.N. representatives will meet with the same Israeli, Egyptian and Transjordan officers tomorrow to discuss the widening of the neutral Red Cross zone in the southern part of the city.
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