COUNTER TERROR

Grey River Argus, 20 November 1946, Page 5

COUNTER TERROR

BRITISH SOLDIERS

Run Riot in Jewish City

(Rec. 7.45.) LONDON, Nov. 19. Twenty-five Jews are reported to have been injured, when forty British soldiers and police last night raided Tel Aviv’s night club quarter, in a' protest against recent terrorist attacks on British personnel, says the Daily Mail’s Jerusalem correspondent. The British raiders entered several hotels and cafes. Three of these were badly damaged, including the fashionable Armon Hotel. Tables there were overturned, and a wellstocked bar was wrecked. There were scenes of confusion as smartly dressed patrons rushed for the doors Outside of the hotel cars with Jewish drivers or passengers, were halted and overturned.

The raiders then cleared the streets by firing Sten Guns and rifles into the air.

British Military Police later restored order.

A British United Press correspondent at Tel Aviv says: The police in a statement, describe the damage as slight. The correspondent added: These events are not unconnected with recent terroristic outrages An officer of the Royal Engineers was killed and a soldier was injured when attempting to put out of action a contact mine which they found on the railway track near Kfar Sirkin, in the Haifa area. Another mine exploded under a freight train near Rehovoth, south of Tel Aviv. The latest casualties bring the total in Palestine in the last 17 days to 23 killed and 60 injured. The authorities in Jerusalem would neither deny nor confirm reports that the 30-year-old deputy-leader of the Stern Gang, Isaac Yesternitsky, had escaped from a prison camp in Eritrea

British intelligence officers are believed to have circulated a description of Yesternitsky to all police stations in British-controlled Africa, and precautions are being taken against his returning to Palestine.

The Jewish Aim TO DIVIDE AND POPULATE PALESTINE. LONDON, Nov. 19. The chief of the Haganah, Moshe Sneh, arrived in London by air from New York. He made no statement. (Rec. 8.40.) LONDON, Nov. 19. The Haganah organisation chief, the thirty-eight year old Doctor Moshe Sneh, on arriving in London, from America on his way to Palestine. told the Daily Herald: “One thing that I want to have clearly understood by the British public is that a return to traditional AngloJewish friendship can be achieved only if Britain moves steadily towards making Palestine a Jewish State.” He emphasised that the Haganah was a defensive force only. It was not aggressive. It threatened nobody. He said: “But, as Zionists, we aim at full Jewish immigration to Palestine.”