THE FIVE BRITISH NATIONALS officials of the Jerusalem Electric Corporation, who were reported to have been abducted by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, a Jewish organisation, in Jerusalem on July 6, were officially informed on July 23 that they were being held “on suspicion of passing information of military value ti the enemy." They are held at Tel A viv by the Israel police. The three prisoners shown here are (left to right), Thomos Michael Bryant, from Marston Magna, acting manager of the Jerusalem Electric Corporation, Thomas Downes, from Bilston, and Alferd Leech, from Bristol. An Irgun military police guard is seen at right.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1948, Page 5
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103THE FIVE BRITISH NATIONALS officials of the Jerusalem Electric Corporation, who were reported to have been abducted by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, a Jewish organisation, in Jerusalem on July 6, were officially informed on July 23 that they were being held “on suspicion of passing information of military value ti the enemy." They are held at Tel Aviv by the Israel police. The three prisoners shown here are (left to right), Thomos Michael Bryant, from Marston Magna, acting manager of the Jerusalem Electric Corporation, Thomas Downes, from Bilston, and Alferd Leech, from Bristol. An Irgun military police guard is seen at right. Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1948, Page 5
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