FOUR TERRORISTS HANGED

Chronicle (Levin), 17 April 1947, Page 5

FOUR TERRORISTS HANGED

SECURITY STEPS TO PREVENT REACTIONS Received Wedn-esday, 1".5 p.m. JERUSALEM, April 1(5. Four Jewish terrorists, including Do\ Gruner, were hanged at Acre prisou to dav. Hanged with Gruner wero Monleeai Alkoshi, Kliez-er Kashani an-. David Rosenbaum, sejitenced for carryiii«r unns and whips 011 the night wlieu Mnjor Brett and three British n.c.o.h were flogged. Reuier's Jerusalem corresponden: says l'alesliue's biggest ever securitv measures began tliis morning with house curfews in the Jewish areas oi Uaifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Petaehtikvah. The securitv measures put about 400,090 .Tews under house arrest. Anuoured cars equipped with loudspeakers awoke the Jews to anTuninve the eurfew. Two policemen int'ormed Max Beligjiian, the executed men 's lawyer and Mrs. Friedman, Gruner 's sister, of the hangings which occurred at dawn. The bodies oi' the four men are reported to have been takou to Koshpinah where, at their request, they will be buried near the gruve of Sholomo Ben Yousef who was hanged in 1957 and was the lirst to be. executed in Palestine as tli»* result of a British Military Court sentence. The Jewish Agencv for Palestine in F.S.A. has issued a stateinent urging Fnited Xations Assembly, at the fortlicoming special session, to call on Britain to reopen Palestine inimediatoly to Jewish immigrants pending linal settlenient of the problem and to remove the "existing racial discriminat ion whie.n restriets Jewish settlement ".