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SEARCH FOR ARMS IN TEL-AVIV (Rec. 12.30.) LONDON, Aug. 1. Tel-Aviv’s slioot-at-sight curfew, imposed on July 30, when British troops began a street-by-street combout for suspects connected with the Hotel David outrage, was lifted in the south part of the city to-day. Deserted streets immediately filled with people who, while the search went on, have been virtual prisoners. The British authorities in Jerusalem searching the fashionable Rehavia area, in the vicinity of the Jewish Agency headquarters. Troops of the 6th Airborne Division who have been carrying out a search in Tel-Aviv for terrorists’ hidden arms began this afternoon to move out of the city. As they withdrew food-laden lorries drove into Tel-Aviv to enable inhabitants who had to keep indoors to restock their larders. A communique issued in Jerusalem stated that 169 Jews were held for further questioning during the search to-day, and the total number detained during the four-day search is over 1200. Major-General A. J. Cassels, who was in charge of the search, said that as the inhabitants do not come forward to assist the authorities in the search there is no other way to unearth the terrorists and arms dumps than by systematic searches.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 250, 3 August 1946, Page 5
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