“SEVEN MORE FOR GALLOWS”
WARNING TO BRITISH ARMY JERUSALEM, Aug. 3. The Irgun Zvai Leumi, in a broadcast to-day, warned the British Army that seven more British soldiers are “scheduled for the gallows, as the gallows account is still to be evened.” The Irgun was referring to the nine terrorists executed this year. Jewish ex-servicemen placed at the foot of the Cenotaph to-day a wreath inscribed: “In memory of Sergeant Martin and Sergeant Paice, who died doing their duty in Palestine. From their Je.wish comrades of the British forces.” The Haganah. in a Tel-Aviv communique. said: “ Our hand will find those gangsters, and they will be punished for .the hanging of the two British sergea'nts.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26531, 5 August 1947, Page 5
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