JEWS ARRESTED IN PALESTINE
HANGING OF BRITISH SERGEANTS
(Rec. 7 p.m.) JERUSALEM, August 24. The police have arrested a number' of Jews believed to be implicated in the kidnapping and hanging of the two British sergeants near Nathanya on July 31. The police said that investigations showed that the sergeants were held in the Nathanya area throughout their captivity.
Colonel W. N. Gray, who announced the arrests, said that there had been a considerable increase in crime in Palestine in the last seven months. Crimes on the police records totalled 21,000. They included 192 murders. 261 attempts at murder, 151 cases of manslaughter, and nearly 4000 serious assaults.
Masked, khaki-clad youths, believed to be members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, kidnapped Moses Rosnai, a Jew living on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem. The youths drove up in two cars, chloroformed Rosnai, and drove off after threatening members of his family who tried to interfere.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25272, 26 August 1947, Page 7
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