DEATH SENTENCES CONFIRMED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 160, 19 April 1947, Page 5

DEATH SENTENCES CONFIRMED

JEWISH TERRORISTS THREAT BY AMERICAN ORGANISATION (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, April IS. General G. H. Macmillan confirmed the death sentences which the British Military Court in Jerusalem passed on Meir Feinstein for participating in the attack on the Jerusalem railway station in October, in which a British policeman was killed, and on Moslie Barazani for possession of a grenade. Both are Jewish terrorists. Under the amended Palestine Defence Regulations the condemned men are liable to execution forthwith. General MacMillan commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of death passed on a third Jewish terrorist, Daniel Azulai. Barazani is a member of the Stern Gang, aged 21. He was found with a grenade in his pocket on the daily route to and from the martial law area, of the brigadier commanding the 9th Brigade. The British Government is investigating charges Italy made in a Note to Britain that Unrra had assisted the movement of Jewish displaced persons toward Palestine. The official feeling is that Unrra personnel have, m fact, assisted the movement wittingly or unwittingly. In Frankfurt to-day Mr Paul B. Edwards, Unrra director in the Umteu States zone, said recent investigation uncovered no evidence that Unna peisonuel assisted the movement of Jewish refugees toward Paelstine. The United Zionists-Revisionists of America announce plans for a nation-wide boycott of British manufactured goods, ships and films as “the opening of the second front in America” In an effort to force a change in British policy in Palestine. The British spokesman at the Uni ted Nations to-day said his country would propose the exclusion of the five major Powers from the commit tee of inquiry on Palestine, the appointment of which will be. considered by a special session of the United Nations Assembly on April 2S. It was also' reported that Britain would oppose representation on the committee of either Jews or Arabs, and would suggest restricting the committee to about 12 small countries having no direct interest in the controversial questions involved. Thirty-five States have now voted' in favour of holding a special session. Only Ethiopia opposed it. TEI-AVIV OUT'OF BOUNDS (Rec. 10.30.) JERUSALEM. April IS. Armed Jews stormed the British Army’s leave centre in Nathanya and blasted the officers’ compound 1 with two bombs. They Ihen escaped in » military lorry. An official report says that tliioe people in civilian clothes carried out the attack. They shot the sentry and tossed three bombs into the officers compound, flattening the orderly-room. There were no other casualties. An explosion at Jaffa partially wrecked the headquarters of lutiiwa (Palestine Arab youth organisation). Two British policemen were wounded—one seriously—when a British armoured carrier escorting a postal official was blown up on Allenby Road in Tel-Aviv. The authorities have placed Tel-Aviv out of bounds to British troops and police, who have been ordered not to enter the city except in armoured cars. TIME FOR ACTION ARAB SPOKESMAN’S VIEWS (Rec. 11.0) NEW YORK, April 18. Faris Khoury, Syrian delegate • to the Security Council and leading Arab spokesman,, declared that the Arab states would attempt to block a United Nations investigation of Palestine and would demand an immediate solution to the problem. He said that already there had been too many investigations and the time had come for action. >