Wives Demand Release of Husbands

Chronicle (Levin), 5 July 1946, Page 5

Wives Demand Release of Husbands

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PALESTINE ARMS HUNT ENDS

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Received Friday, 10.10 a.m. JERUSALEM, July 4. The three British officers kiduapped from the officers' clul) in Tel Aviv were released to-day. They were brought in a crato on a lorry to the British Officers' Institute in Tel. Aviv shortly after 6 p.m. The crate was dumped in the street and the officers stepped out blinclt.'oldod and gagged before the \ ■ tonished gaze of a passerby. HiV.y slipped otf their gags and inasks and unavailingly chased I the lorry. The lorry was re- i poi*!ed to contain ten armed ; Jnc-n. The British troops are pre-p.o-ing to evacuate their bunk- j ei'ef ! positions around the J ewi.Gi Ag nry's fort-like buildingj ii: Jerusalem. Barbed-wire en- j taiigh ■nients in the parks and j gurden.s in the vicinity are be- i ing !'( nioved. Police officialsj slate that the search of the! .buildings has finished. It was j cari'ied out in every room and! firawer. Many documents were; letm n/'d after examination. ; The Jewisli Agency has been | iin.ited to send representatives | to join representatives of the: aro:y poiiee on a survey board I to .i .-•-•> , ihe damage. It is ex- | pfcG-d that the building' will be ! hamied over to the agency j v. hhin a week. • ihe search for arms at Mes-! lu k "5 agur, where weapons and f aniinnnitlon were found, has; iic ceased. i i'endreds of women deraon-j si i a - • d near the Government j oihee^ in Tel Aviv to-day, de- j nwnuing the release of their! a n » 1 s T'>u- irgun Zvai Leami senti ne / snaper correspondents in ; Ba!e;-.(ii«e a nine-point Jewish ' (■barter for freedom. It calls! for ci'al mobilisation for the i e-hahdishment of a Jewish Pro- j > is'onal Government to "fight j :or :he rlownfall of British oc- i cupa?ion." The ])oints includej a. boycott of British courts of j ; . . the establishment of j J« i- a courts, the establish- 1 f.; -n of a Jewish national li- as'oy lo which taxes would ! c ]?aid instead of going to the LULsSi Government,' the establisiunent of a military coramand and ihe mobilisation of Jews ( {.uable of bearing arms. '!'!:• British Aritiv authoritics an!i thut inany arrsntcd .T«*ws are !•••.- i •'if-a.-fi] arai nddcil thiit tlioy •••■■ «-r. 1 1 \ i ii ii t> t'li c iiinoccnt persons as jiov-iidc hui iione of tliose ari j v.irc yot ndi-ascd I'rom Latrun v 1 •• i:ioJiiiicrs ot' t lu* Jewish \ -t • 1 1 - \ e\(— utivo were held. Action u .vifh i iie release of Jh I'rom Tlafa i r .■ -aaiji.