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LIMPET MINES SOUGHT BRITISH USE 4000 TROOPS TO CORDON OFF AN AREA Recd. 8 p.m. London. Aug. 26. Reuter's Jerusalem correspondent reports that 4000 British infantrymen cordoned off the Jewish settlement of Sdoth-Yom, near Caesarea and began a search for limpet mljies. Settlers offered no resistance and gave names and addresses, despite instructions from Haganahs, “Voice of Israel.” Limpet mines were used to damage the transport Empire Rival last week. The searchers used, for the first time, dogs specially trained in Germany for detecting metals.
Two hundred illegal immigrants landed at Sdoth-Yom this month.
New and large-scale military operations are likely to begin this morning, says the "Exchange Telegraph's” Jerusalem correspondent, in an earlier message.
An Army public relations officer at 3 a.m. summoned foreign correspondents to be ready for immediate departure to an unknown destination. Such summons previously has been a prelude to large-scale operations.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 August 1946, Page 5
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