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SIGN PACT: Gen. Chou En-lai, representing: Chinese Communists, signs a pact which ended hostilities in China, while Gov. Chung Chun (left), representing the Nationalist Government, and Gen. George C. Marshal, U.S. presidential envoy, look on. ^ _Polish Jews Have 27 FirmsOrganized Since War’s EndWARSAW, Feb. 7 (AP)—The 86,000 Jews in Poland who survived six years of war and Nazi occupation have organized 27 manufacturing co-operatives and are working diligently to re-establish themselves in the economic life of the'country, according to the Central Committee of---- ^Polish Jews. The committee denied _ foreign press reports of Jews fleeingBeheading Again Becomes Legal• .For ExecutionsBy T. NORMAN PALMER. . Staff CorrespondentBERLIN, Feb. 7—As a result of Allied Control Council action the only legal method of execution for German civilians is beheading.Before the Nazi rise to power decapitation had been the only accepted German method of executing civilians guilty of crimes calling for the death penalty.But one of the Nazi’s first acts was the legalization “of hanging. Control Council repeal of the special Nazi law restores capital punishment to the same status it held prior to 1933.from Poland and of “contlnous pogroms against Jews and increasing anti-Semitism.”; Most Jews intend to remain in Poland, although thousands have fled to the American Zone in Germany, Palestine and other countries in the past year, said the committee, which includes representatives of every political party in Poland.Those who fled did so because of sporadic anti-Semitic outbreaks and the killing of a total of 353 Jews in 1945 by “reactionaries, Fascist gangsters and enemies of the government,” the committee declared. .Members asserted every-effort is being made to assist Jews who do want to leave the country, but those who resort to “chaotically illegalPalestine Raid Leaves 5 DeadJERUSALEM, Feb. 7 (AS)—Five persons-were killed and five others wounded last night as the result of an attack by armed Jews on a military camp near Tel Aviv, a communique reported today.The casualties of the attack and subsequent pursuit by troops included a British officer, one African soldier and three Jews killed, and one African soldier and four Jews injured, the report said.According to the communique, a man dressed in uniform entered a guardroom where African troops were stationed and shot the sentry dead, then fled when he was attacked.More “armed Jews’’ forced their way into the guardroom, the communique added, seriously wounding a guard and the commander. They ; then looted the armory.Four British officers in the mess-; hall a floor above rushed to in- j vestigate, the report continued, and the regimental medical officer who was first out of the room was shot dead “by two Jews who were mounting the stairs firing submachine guns.Army to Release PWs by June 30FRANKFURT, Feb. 7- (AP)—The American Army hopes to release by June 30 all Wehrmacht prisoners, except those whose organizations
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