OVER 300 ARRESTS IN PALESTINE

Chronicle (Levin), 27 July 1946, Page 5

OVER 300 ARRESTS IN PALESTINE

Press Assn.

TERRORISTS WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER POLICE SUPERVISION

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Received Saturday, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, July 26. It is officially announced in Jerusalem that the police today arrested 376 Jewish suspected terrorists throughout Palestine. Those arrested h'ave been under police supervision for some time, and they included a number of Women. The arrests were made in the Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa areas. The suspected terrorists have been sent to a special camp.

Panic almost occurred in the centre of Jerusalem to-day when it , was rumoured that police headquarters would be blown up. The area surrounding the building quickly cleared, but the streets refilled later when it was learned that the alarm was false. The Rabbi, Dr. Mattuck, chairman of the governing body of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, welcoming delegates to its international conference in London, said: "All Jews condemned the terrorism perpetrated in Palestine by a small band of Jews. It shocks and grieves deeply that any Jew,

! however provoked, could be guilty 1 of such brutal and destructive acts ' in a land which is holy to the Jews, and in the holiest centre of it. "The latest outrage has filled us with horror. Those guilty have violated the Jewish religion and brought unjustified reproach to the Jewish people. Nevertheless, we voice our sympathy in a sense of solidarity with the large majority of fellow Jews in Palestine whot seek a just and neapeful solution." The latest officiai figures of the casualties in the King David Hotel bombing are 76 dead, 46 injured and 30 missing. .