Rounding Up Jew Terrorists

Northern Advocate, 11 January 1947, Page 4

Rounding Up Jew Terrorists

fßec. 1 p.m.J LONDON. Jan. 10. At Jerusalem police surrounded three houses at Rishon le Zion and arrested four known members of Irgun Zvai Leumi. Troops of the Gth Airborne Division, searchig Tel Aviv slums, arrested 22 Jews, including Esther Raziel. suspected organiser of Irgun Zvai Leumi secret broadcasts. Esther is a sister of the late David Raziel, who was the founder and first commander-in-chief of Irgun. She was living in a fiat with two children. Her husband is reported to be a political prisoner in Eritrea. Four armed officers escorted her in a staff car to Latrun detention camp. Irgun Zvai Leumi, in a letter to the Palestine Government’s Information Office, confirmed the temporary truce against the British Army. The letter asked the office to announce the news as a communique to the press. It gave no reason for the truce. ARABS GAIN POINT The acting High Commissioner (Sir Henry Gurney) officially invited the Arab Higher Committee to send an Arab delegation to the London conference on Palestine. The vice-chairman of the Arab Higher Committee (Jamal I-lusseini), to whom Sir Henry gave the invitation, said the chief cause preventing Arab narticipation—the British Government’s intervention in the Arabs’ right L. choose their own delegates—was now removed. The Higher Committee contended that Britain’s invitation to the last conference excluded its chairman. the Grand Mufti. Reuter’s Rome correspondent, says two Irgun Zvai Leumi leaflet bombs exploded, one in Rome and the othei in Venice. They said: “The vanguard of the clandestine Jewish army of liberation, with its headquarters in Italy, means to destroy the British forces until a Jewish state is restored within the historic boundaries of our own country.”