JEW ON TRIAL
REFUSED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS (Rec. 11.40) JERUSALEM, Aug. 28. A military court to-day began the trial of a member of the Stern Gang, Jacob Alkalai, charged with participation in the attack against railway workshops at Haifa. Alkalai was severely wounded during the attack, and could not be tried with his comrades, IS of whom were sentenced to death. Alkalai was carried into court on a stretcher. He refused to recognise the tribunal or to answer questions, and asked for a Bible to read throughout the proceedings, , The British military authorities today searched the Jewish-Kurdish quarter of Jerusalem. They found no arms, but made three arrests. It is officially stated that 6th Airborne Division troops searching the village of Dorothgn, near Gaza, discovered a 3-inch mortar, two Aldis lamps and a mine detector. A Cairo message says that approximately 100 illegal Jewish immigrants haveJaiKfecl in Tripolitania in the last fortnight. A British Army officer said they were believed to have come from Sicily and Italy.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 272, 29 August 1946, Page 6
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