POLICE SEEKING 600 SPECIAL CONSTABLES TO ASSIST TO COMBAT CRIME WAVE

Chronicle (Levin), 14 November 1946, Page 5

POLICE SEEKING 600 SPECIAL CONSTABLES TO ASSIST TO COMBAT CRIME WAVE

Press Assn.

By Telegraph

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Received Thursday, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, November 13. The Metropolitan Police announced that they are seeking 600 unpaid special constables to help to combat the crime "vvave. Meanwhile, the police are still being diverted for the night-long guarding of all Governrnent buildings likely to be targets for terrorists, and also for the twenty-four hour guardinir of Cabinet Ministers.

A Jew suspected of being asso-i ciated with the Stern Gang was ar- ' rested ten days ago in Glasgow, states the Press Association. The J ew held identity papers represent- , ing himself as a discharged soldier i of General Anders' Polish Army. He : came into Glasgow docks in a mili- ; tary transport, and was picked up aboard the transport by Glasgow members of the C.LD. and members I of the M.15 ( Intelligence Department), following information re- I ceived from Palestine suggesting that a suspected member of the Stern Gang had succeeded in leaving Palestine, and was probably en route to Britain.

The Jew, after plain-clothes police had surrounded him, was taken to a military camp, where he is being detained. In .Paris today Samuel Merlin, Secretary-General of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, who is political spokesman for Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Jewish terrorist organisation, said that the Jewish terrorist threats to attack British centres outside of Palestine would be fulfilled. "The bombing of the Rome Embassy was the firsi step and there will certainly be otners. Precautions by Britain will be futile. lf these men want to enter Britain, they will do so."