JEWISH TERRORISTS

Evening Star, Issue 25826, 24 June 1946, Page 5

JEWISH TERRORISTS

PRICE ON LEADER'S HEAD

TWO OF KIDNAPPED OFFICERS RELEASED LONDON, June 23. Two of the kidnapped British officers, Captain D. T. Itae and Flight-lieuten-ant T. A. Russell, were released by their captors last night, says Reuter’s Jerusalem correspondent. Both were reported to be fit. They were cleanshaven and looked well when brought by car to the Yarkon Hotel at TelAviv, from which they were kidnapped. Newspapers in Tel-Aviv before the official announcement received telephone calls from an unknown person, claiming to be a member of the Irgunz Vaileumi, announcing that the two officers had been released and adding that the three others who were still captive were well and that there was no cause to worry. C.I.D. officers have intensified the search for the self-styled commander-in-chief of the Jewish militarist terrorist group, Manahim Begin, on whose head the Government has placed a price of £2,000. It is believed that Begin, who is holding a death threat over the kidnapped British officers, may have undergone a major facial operation permanently to disfigure himself. With 19 other terrorists, he. broke out of Latrun detention camp near Jerusalem three years ago. Unconfirmed reports from Tel-Aviv state that British destroyers intercepted in Palestine territorial waters an illegal immigrant ship carrying 800 Jews.' The name of the ship is not disclosed.