BEHIND THE WIRE

Evening Star, Issue 25871, 15 August 1946, Page 7

BEHIND THE WIRE

JEWS INTERNE ON CYPRUS MORE SHIPS APPROACH PALESTINE WAR OF NERVES CONTINUES (Rec. 10.30 a:m.) LONDON, Auj,. 14, Two more illegal immigrant s.i'ps are approaching Palestine waters, and others will soon leave European ports, said the Jewish Agency spokesman in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, in Cyprus, while sweating British soldiers are rushing the completion of the detention camps, the newspapers publish decrees empowering the Governor to detain illegal immigrants, The decrees provide a penalty of a year’s imprisonment for fugitives from the camps, and also for persons aiding their escape. Reuter’s Famagusta (Cyprus) correspondent reports that some interned Jewish men and women in grey clothing can be seen through the barbedwire from the quarantine distance of 300 ft. In Jerusalem to-day the staff and visitors evacuated the General Post Office building after a telephone warning that it was mined. The police and armoured cars were posted outside the building An examination, however, revealed no danger, and the staff returned to duty. Correspondents suggest that the telephone call was another instance of the “ war of nerves.” The Zionist Inner Circle in Jerusalem has decided to convene’a world congress somewhere in Europe in November, and has fixed October 14/ as the last date for elections to congress. . A Paris message reports that four members of the Jewish Agency, Berl Locker, Dr Nahum Goldmanri, Eliezer Kaplan, and Dr Stephen Wise, left’ for London by air to confer with Dr Weizmann. The agency executive, meeting was suspended while they are away, and will he resumed to-morrow when they return.