COURT SENTENCES TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN SEARCH AFTER FLOGGING OF BRITISH TROOPS

Chronicle (Levin), 11 February 1947, Page 5

COURT SENTENCES TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN SEARCH AFTER FLOGGING OF BRITISH TROOPS

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Received Tuesday, 10.40 a.m. JERUSALEM', February. 10. •Three of the four Jewish youths on trial for carrying firearms and whips when the British troops searched Palestine for the terrorists who flogged a British ofiicer and three non-eommissioned ofiicers on 'December 29 were today sentenced to be hanged. The fourth was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The four refused to plead when eharged before a military court., They were Dov Rosenbaum., 24, Xiam Gorovevsky, who is a minor, Eliahu Kashani, 23, and Mordechai Alkoshi; 21. The prosecutor told the court that British troops stopped a car after the flogging of Major Brett on December 29.- Rosenbaum got cut armed v/ith a sub-machine gun, Gorovevsky threw a revolver at the croops and resisted arrest, Kashani had two rawhide whips and a fifth man who later died had a revolver and two pxaStic bo'mbs in his pocket. Immediately after the sentences all troops in Jerusalem were confined to barracks. Police posts were reinforccd and arms issued to picked members of all Jewish municipal police in Tel Aviv. The Jewish Agency, in reply to Ihe Palestine Government's ultimaium seeking Jewish collaboration against terrorism, says that any appeal to resist terrorism on the iines the Government had suggested would be ineffective and likely t-o cause more harm than good. It added that the Jewish community did not feel able to resist terrorism oy using the resources of a Government, which, it said, was enforcing a policy that the community regarded as a breach of the country's l'undamental law. The Palestine Government at present conte,mplated no substitute ' for, the civil administration, but was elearly in command of the situation created by the terrorists. The Government had to prepare for all eventualities. The High Commissioner for Palestine (General Bir Alan CunninghamJ made this statement to Mrs. Meye-rson and ilr. Eliezer Kaplan, the Jewish Agency representatives. Ile told them that the recent acquisition of buildings was purelv a security measure. The incon venience caused tliereby was regretted, but the Government could not take the respousibility for its necessity. Fii' AJan Cunningham asked the Jewish coinmunity to maintain tranquillity while elfo'rts were being made to solve the Palestine problem. The Government later announcd that all passenger and , railway serviees be- , tween Jerusalem, . Lydda' and Haifa were cancelled from February 12 "owing to the security situation.'" Mrs. Meyerson, after seeing Sir Alan Cunningham, convened the Jewish Agency executive for urgent eonsultations. She told the executive that fc>ir Alan Cunningham had reiterated the ultimatum demanding the Jewish Agency 's cooperation. Jerusalem is now di vided into eompartments more -watertight than" the foreign concessions -in Chines-e cites before the war, says the Jerusalem correspondent of The Times! The eordoned southern section is almost emptied of traffic, and Government ofiicials are soniewhat listlessly moving about in the prescribed area. Even servants and messengers who work in or haveto enter the area must get a pass, and it will be days before the thousands of passes required are issued.