CHECKING OF TERRORISM

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24982, 17 September 1946, Page 7

CHECKING OF TERRORISM

4 Jewish Agency’s Decision action through HAGANAH MX Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Sept 15, «n>e Jewish Agency’s executive, at a _~.ret session, decided to end terrorist Sivities by Jews," says the Jerusalem Respondent of the “Daily Teledecision will be announced in Palestine and the agency will work Sough its illegal army, the Haganah. Sir figun Zvai Leumi and the Stern rang wih first be advised that their arivities must ceasb, and if these orders are not obeyed terrorists may again be handed to the police by the Haganah as during the war, although may now prove too nowerlulexecutive was still in session when it issued a statement condemning the Jewish. Agency fondemns “in the strongest possible tenns” the recent Palestine outrages, which are described as a form of gangwere the work of elements who do not seem to understand Sat their actions recoil on the heads the Jewish community, which abominates them,” adds the statement. •Statesmen deplore the toll of innocent Arab lives, particularly as every effort £s always been made by the Jews to OTAvent injury and suffering to a with whom we have no Irgun Zvai Leumi announced a complete rupture of relations with the Haganah in a dramatic broadcast ova its underground radio. The speaker said that the Irgun Zvai Leumi was now quite alone, but he emphasised that it had never been so strong and that a new era was beginning for Jewish resistance. While previously there had always been a rixort break between attacks, they would now continue uninterruptedly. The speaker indirectly implied the organisation's responsibility for the attacks on two banks in Jaffa by saying that the Irgun Zvai Leumi had to procure money by all possible means because of lack of funds. Government sources in Jerusalem have confirmed that the former Chief Secretary in Palestine, Sir John Shaw, has arrived in London after his secret departure by aeroplane on September 13.