Cable Briefs

Press, 9 June 1978, Page 6

Cable Briefs

J Thai attack I Eleven Thai border patrol [policemen have been killed and at least 13 wounded in an attack by a large force of Communist guerrillas on a police base in south Thaii land, the provincial police .■said yesterday. I The police in southern Phatthalung province said a force of between 250 and 300 guerrillas had stormed [the base at Sribanphot with I heavy weapons including [grenade launchers and autoI matic rifles. The fighting had lasted three hours. “At least | seven or eight guerrillas ■(were carried away by their colleagues,” a police official said. — Bangkok. Extradition bid Poland has applied to Bra zil for the extradition of [Gustav Wagner, accused of responsibility for the deaths lof many Jews in a Nazi ex- ' termination camp in Poland, the Government news agency, P.A.P., has said. Wagner, a 66-year-old Austrian who fled to Brazil in 1950, was detained last week in Sao Paulo after voluntarily presenting himself to police Polish war crimes investigators say that Wagner, known to extermination camp inmates as the | “Human Beast,” was subj commandant at the death camp at Sobibor in eastern Poland, where more than 250,000 Jews and other-, were annihilated in 1942 and 1934. — Warsaw. j Student guilty An Israeli court has con victed an Arab-American engineering student, Sami Esmail, of membership in a hostile organisation, but has acquitted him of charges of contact with a foreign agent The prosecution asked the maximum sentence of 10 years for the 23-year-old native of Brooklyn, New York, who was reared on the occupied West Bank town of Ramallah. Based on contested statements made under interrogation and tes[timony from Israeli security 'men, the Court found Esmail had distributed newspapers ■at the University of Mich- . igan for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales tine, contributed money to the group, and had gone to Libya in 1976 for ideological and military training. Israeli law gives jurisdiction over crimes connected with ter rorism to local courts even ' if the actions are committed , abroad. — Tel Aviv.