EXECUTION RUMOURS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26437, 16 April 1947, Page 5

EXECUTION RUMOURS

TENSENESS IN PALESTINE Rec. 10 p.m. -LONDON, Apl. 15. Both Reuter’s and the Associated Press’Jerusalem correspondents say that the removal of Dov Gruner and other terrorists from Jerusalem central prison to the Acre prison has causea a strong rumour that Gruner, Alkoshi, Kashani, and Rosenbaum, vyho were all condemned to death, had been removed to be executed to-day. They added that the rumour is typical of the hypersensitive state of Palestine, where even a minor move registers political repercussions. It was later announced that the transfers were made because of congestion in the Jerusalem prison and the fact that some terrorists needed medical treatment.

BATTLE ON IMMIGRANT SHIP Rec. 7 p.m. JERUSALEM, Apl. 14. A moonlight battle between British sailors and immigrants, including expectant mothers, raged for three hours on board the Theodor Herzl. The immigrants bombarded the boarding party with bottles and tin cans, and hand to hand fighting followed. The sailors were forced to use tear gas and small arms fire. It is officially stated that 20 immigrants from the Theodor Herzl were landed at Haifa for hpspital treatment. One wounded Jew said that when the immigrants saw further opposition to boarding was useless they destroyed the ship’s engines.