BATTLE FOR FOOD WHEN CURFEW EASED

Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1947, Page 5

BATTLE FOR FOOD WHEN CURFEW EASED

LONDON, Mar. 3. The Lincoln, shi ro Regiment, at'tei (iring warning shots tliroughont the night to keep residents oft' balconies, made a honse-to-house search this morning in one small part of Mea Kherim, the working-class area oi' Jerusalem. Milling throngs lilled the street at lll a.m. (local time) when Brigadier E. F. Davies, tlie coinmamler of the martial law area, lifted the curfew for three lionrs. Brigadier Davies, touring' tlie district, was boinbarded with questions and eomplaints. Tlie residents of on 1 area complained of a lack of water since March 1. Brigadier Davies gave oue man a special escort to reinove his liousekeeper 's two-day-.old corpse to tlie cenietery. Shrieking housewives battled at the shops to buy food before the curfew was reimposed. Rablii iloshe Goldman at the authorities' invitation is accompanying the troops during the searehes of Mea Hlierim 's Yeligious institutions. t It is officially stated a terrorist 's workshop found in Tel Aviv was in a house cellar which eontained many types of explosives, including electradetonators and hand-grenades besidc arms and ammunition and nniforms. It is tlie first hau] since the curfew was imposed. The Militarv Governor of the Tel Aviv area (Major-General Gale) warned tlie Jews that continued martial law over the Tel Aviv area which is tlie hui) of Jewixh industrial life would "in evitably spell econoniic disaster for the whole of the Jewish community. Business was going to be hamstrung. " The general added that the sooner the loss of life eould be eliminated the sooner industrial life would get back to norma 1. General Gale said he had instructed liis commanders that wherever the population cooperated there should be everv indulgence in the applieation of tlie military restrictions, but where re sistance and obstruction was encounter ed -there would be "110 nonsense". General Gale, in liis first proelamation as Military Governor of tlie Tel Aviv area, transferred all the powers from tlie civil to the militarv authorities. He ordered the closing bv 10 p.m. of all cafes, hotels, restaurants and oinemas.