RHODES: `Israel` and Transjordan today [Mar 11] signed a formal cease-fire agreement here, to be effective until superseded by a general armistice. The agreement does not cover the sector of central Palestine occupied by Transjordan`s Iraqi allies. The cease-fire binds both sides to observe a truce without any restriction on the disposition of their forces within territory they occupy. ...

The agreement differed from that signed between the `Israelis` and the Egyptians in that this one specified areas affected.

News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by a correspondent in Karachi,] Mr Yusuf Haroon, the Finance Minister, presented the supplementary statement of expenditure for the year 1949-49 totalling Rs 6,88,000 charged and Rs 25,926180 voted, when the Sind Assembly met on Friday [March 11]. ... Under ... `Miscellaneous` expenditure totalling Rs 49,83,000, nearly Rs 78,000 was spent on the Court of Enquiry ...

against Mr Khuhro, ex-Premier of Sind.

Expenditure on construction and maintenance of refugee camps has involved ... Rs 46,80,000 only, whereas celebrations of ...

Independence Day had cost Rs 47,500 to the Sind Government.