SMUGGLED IN GAOL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 5

SMUGGLED IN GAOL

CONDEMNED MEM TOLL OF TERRORISM MIGRATION DENOUNCED (10 a.m.) LONDON, April 23. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Hall, announced in the House of Lords that the Jewish terrorists, Mayer Feinstein and Moshe Barazani, who committed suicide in the Jerusalem prison while awaiting execution, had explosives smuggled into the cell inside oranges. The juice of the oranges had been sucked out and the explosives substituted. Lord Hall also announced that the British nationals who had been killed in Palestine since August 1, 1945, were 63 soldiers, 30 police and 15 civilians. These did not include casualties in the blowing up of a train near Rehoboth on April 22. Thirty-three terrorists had been killed and 39 wounded. One hundred and sixty-eight Jews had been convicted for terrorist activities and four had been executed. Lord Altringham said that illegal Jewish migration to Palestine was inhuman and reminiscent of the slave trade. It was wrong for Britain to be blamed. He supported the Government’s steps to resist the dreadful traffic. Jewish misery and hopelessness were Europe’s responsibility and could not. be placed on Islam. The United Nations was the only organisation to deal with the problem. Lord Hall, replying to a debate, said that if disaster occurred in any overcrowded ship carrying illegal immigrants, the Government would not be responsible. Ships had gone to Palestine carrying three persons to every gross registered ton. In many cases the ships never would have arrived safely if the navy had not towed them.