DISSIDENT JEWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22404, 11 August 1947, Page 5

DISSIDENT JEWS

RAILWAY SABOTAGE NEW BOAST BY IRGUN ;(11 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 10. The security police in Tel Aviv last night began a sudden series of arrests of leaders cf the Jewish Revisionist Party, says the British United Press correspondent in Jerusalem. At least three leaders of the party are known to have been arrested, including the chief editor of the party’s paper Hamashkif. The Jewish driver was killed and the fireman injured when an electrically detonated mine derailed a locomotive and four carriages of the Cairo-Haifa express outside Tel Aviv. Troops returning from leave in Egypt were uninjured Reuter’s correspondent says the police fought a running gun battle with three Jewish terrorists who were seen running away shortly after the mine exploded. The police later arrested two Jews, one of whom was wounded. Both are reported to have carried arms. A third Jew who was carrying a Thomson sub-machine-gun escaped. Threat To Blast Railways The irgun Zvai Leumi threatened to destroy every single yard of railway line in Palestine The terrorists delivered pamphlets to the citrus fruit growers warning them to arrange the transport of their produce by road. The Irgun boasted: “The railways will be entirely out of action by the time your fruit is ripe ” The News of the World’s correspondent in Jerusalem reports that cash thefts from Palestine banks and business houses by Jewish terrorists are likely to increase because the terrorists’ funds last week were cut from two directions. The Palestine businessmen at last refused to be threatened into subscribing money to the terrorists and money suddenly ceased to come from the Bergson group in America. The correspondent expresses the opinion that the Bergson group learned the Irgun Zvai leumi also had been receiving money from “a foreign Power.”