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Grey River Argus, 28 August 1946, Page 5

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TAKEN TO CYPRUS Search for Mines Fails (Rec. 9.45). FAMAGUSA, Aug. 27. The troopship Empire Heywood, carrying 750 illegal Jewish immigrants, has arrived in Cyprus with a destroyer escort. LONDON, Aug. 26. In the new military operation to prevent the sabotage of British ships in Palestine ports, more than 4000 British troops with tanks, armoured cars and bloodhounds surrounded the Jewish fishing settlement of SdothYom. While two planes circled overhead the police launches patrolled off the beach, troops escorted the settlement’s 200 inhabitants to a temporary enclosure. The troops’ search for limpet mines which Jewish terrorists have used against two British ships, was fruitless. After the search the troops rounded up the entire male population (94) of Sdoth-Yom and removed them to a R.A.F. internment camp. The men at. first refused to come from their ramshackle bungalows, but finally decided that resistance was useless. They were led off to hastily-erected barbed wire pens. Brigadier R. H. Anderson, commanding the operations, said that no arms or explosives have so far been discovered but equipment was found leading to the suspicion that the place was used as a landing spot for illegal immigrants. The equipment included rubber dinghies, a bundle of passports and a number of trunks filled with clothing. Reinfoi’cements of military and police have arrived at Acre prison, where 18 members of the Stern gang are under sentence of death and 14 Arabs are in the sixth day of a hunger strike. The Arab Higher Executive has sent a memorandum to General Cunningham in Jerusalem, stating the conditions under which it is prepared to participate in the talks in London on September 9. It is stipulated that the Grand Mufti must attend. The Arabs will reject any form of partition. They demand the complete independence of Palestine. They will accept the idea of independence as a basis for negotiations without reference to the Balfour Declaration oi the Leasue of Nations mandate. They ask that no Jews should sit at the conference.