BRITISH PLANE IS SHOT DOWN BY JEWISH PILOT

Grey River Argus, 18 December 1948, Page 4

BRITISH PLANE IS SHOT DOWN BY JEWISH PILOT

•TEL AVIV, December 16. An Israeli spokesman said that the Mosquito, which was shot down over Israeli territory on November- 20 might have been British. The plane crashed into the sea of lei Aviv and fragments of the wreckage washed up bore no nationality markings- _ . (Rec. 9.30). LONDON, December 17. Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin has asked the United Nations mediator in Palestine to investigate the shooting down of a R.A.F. Mosquito by an Israeli pilot. In the House of Commons, yesterday, the Air Minister, Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, said that, the Mosquito was an unarmed machine, on a training flight. - . , , , According to an Israeli broadcast, the plane was shot down over Israeli territory on November 20 last. It crashed into the sea off Tel Aviv, killing its crew of two. . A spokesman for the Israeli Government said, in Tel Aviv, last night, that the Israeli pilot did not see its markings, but he admitted that it might have been British. The spokesman added that no previous notice was given of the Mosquito’s night, and said, “Without notice, such a flight, during war, entitled us to assume war-like intentions”.