TERRORISTS’ RAID

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 57, 11 March 1946, Page 5

TERRORISTS’ RAID

ATTEMPT TO SEIZE ARMS Jerusalem, March 7. A few hours after the arrival of the British and American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, 14 Jewish terror.sts wearing the uniforms of British airborne troops, made a daring attempt to seize arms from Sarafand cimp the biggest British garrison in Palestine. The party entered the camp in a lorry and drove up to the tents of the arms dump. The terrorists overpowered the guards and began loading ammunition into the lorry. British troops recognised the terrorists and a gun battle developed. The terrorists were forced to withdraw, frustrating an attempt by a sentry to close the camp gate and lock them inside. A Jewish temporary constable assisting the sentry was wounded in the thigh. A charge left by the terrorists exploded, destroying an ammunition tent. A British woman welfare worker in the vicinity was seriously wounded by a stray bullet. An oflicial ernnmunique says that a police post in the Rehoboth area halted a tax carrying three men and one woman. One ol the n*en was covered with bicod. Ail were arrested. A curfew will be imposed in the Rishon and Reh-, both areas. the Arab Press is beginning to ask v-hy the Palestine Government does not punish Jew’sh terrorist acts by collective fine!, and the demolition ol houses wh' -h were the usual punishments for Arab cutiages during the 1936-39 rebellion, and also why Jewish leaders are not deported like Arab leaders, says ihe Jerusalem correspondent of “The Times."