ATTEMPT TO SEIZE ARMS

Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1946, Page 5

ATTEMPT TO SEIZE ARMS

JEWISH TERKORISTS' DARING litceived Tlmrsday 1j.2(j p.m. JEE,u SAxiAki, 11 7. A few hours axter uie uii.r ui ox the Lritisn-American Coa^UiAue oi mquiry . .1 j. l-± oOv.xSxi leirPfloi/S, weiil'.ng t.:e um/ov ns oi -.m: :n a.rooiixa .roops, made a daimg im seua ..rms I'rom Sarafand Jaxup, L..e biggcs. Eritifh garrison ii. Poiestine. The party entered the canip 111 a lorry, cverpowered the guards and bogan lca'i ing the amuumificn iaro the lec: y. British troops recogmscd tho ccrrorist:: and a gun battie deve.cy.ed. Thc .errorists xeere xorcoci ro \udidraw, irastrating an attempt by a .;enury to close the camp gate and iocg them inside. A Jewish tcmpo;" r.y ' oustaule assisting the sentry was woiuu'cd in thc .hiah.

A charge iel't by the ta-iTorhsts ex iloded, destroying the amunmRiyn tent A British woman weifare weri e, i»i tln^icinity was seriously w -uuTd by a uray ImJlet. An official communirf.ie says that a police check-post in the Reho;.f th area txalted a taxi carn iug thre i afid a woman. Oue mnn was covc-rcd in blood. All were arrer'ed. A curfev ..ill be imposed in the E'?hon and ■ Tehobeth areas. The Arah Pr?s: i« beo^'ninr to ask vhy the Palest-'nc Gnvernmr-P does not "uni^h Jewish fpvroi":S'rs * a"ts bv ccl ective fines aua the de^o'i tion o! tonses. which wef* t1,-» 'i"r' nnr'-r* uen+!? fcr Arob outy?ges dv-ir-g •tha 9 reheil'on. —p" •Te*'i«,'h Taders are not dcpor+"d, 'ivs Avnh er-clnw sottS the Times' Jerusalem cor •espondent.