U.S. to Press for a Vote Today at the Security Council on Its Palestine Proposal

The U.S. delegation at the United Nations attends to press for a vote tomorrow by the Security Council on the American proposal which make a distinction between the implementation of the partition decision of the general Assembly and action on a situation in Palestine which may constitute a threat to peace, it was indicated hare today by Senator Warren R. Austin, chief American relegate.

Meanwhile it was learned today by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the U,N. trusteeship Council will withhold action on the appointment of a U.N. Governor for the three City of Jerusalem until the Security Council has taken action on the overall partition plan.

Jewish Agency representatives today disclosed that of 29 Arab dead left on the field of battle when a large Arab force vas repulsed at the Jewish settlement of carat Zvi, in the Beisan Valley, February 16, only three were Palestine Arab civilians who had volunteered to fight. Fourteen were Syrians, three Iraqi, seven former members of the Trans Jordan Arab Legion, one ex-member of the Trans Jordan Frontier force and one from the Saudi Arabian Army. They were identified from documents in their possession.

The Hebrew Committee of National Liberation today submitted a proposal to Mr. Ting Fu Tsiang, chairman of the Security. Council, urging the establishment of a Palestine Border Commission to be sent at an early date to supervise Palestine’s frontiers with its neighboring states. This Commission, the proposal provides, should report to the Security Council “any acts of infringement upon the integrity of Palestine by those states such as open, invasion, clandestine infiltration, transport or smuggling of arms, or any other violation of Palestine territory.”