SURPRISE RAID ON JEWISH QUARTERS
Received Sundav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Jul.v 0. Sixtli Airborne Division para! roops ' armed with toimnvguns and supportedj by Bren carriers, made a surprise raid ; on the Jevvish quarter inside the Arai)] town of Jafl'a, savs Reuter's Tel Avivl correspondent. The soldiers hunted through dilapidated slum houses seareh- j ing for the hiding plaee where the tliree kidna])]ied British oflh-ers were irnprisoned for ld davs. Powerful radio] transinit ters were used to jani Palestine 's tliree illegal broadeasting stations. The Palestine police state that they have received reliable inforiaation that Oi to Ereund and Benjamin Apanek, t.wo Czeidi Jews who were kidnapped by other Jews at Ilaifa on Wednesdav, have been executed, says the Associated Press 's Jerusalem correspondeut. The two Jews are stated to have been eonvieted by the "Jewish people 's higlier court " on a cliarge that they revealed the location of arms dunips to the British. The police denied that ihe men ever had any connection wlth Ihe hritish atithorities.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 July 1946, Page 5
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