TERRORISM CONTINUES

Chronicle (Levin), 22 April 1947, Page 5

TERRORISM CONTINUES

Press Assn

Attempt To Seize Hostages Unsuccessful

By Telegraph

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ReCeivfeci Tifesday, 10.25 a.m. JERUSALEM, April 21. _ Terrorist activities continue in Palestine. A landmine expiodec under an army lorry at Hederah. Th'e lorry caught fire and was destroyed. An official statement on the incident in the Bucharim quarter oi Jerusalem, 'in which two British soldiers were injured when a landmine exploded under a jeep, states ,hat two jeeps were involved. The mihe explosion ,overturned one of them.. The ambushers threw twc , grenades and peppered the j eeps •'ith automatic fire, which the troops frorh the jeeps returned. ehree suspects have been detained. The police found two hangmdn's nooses in the grounds of a Jewish ofphanage soon after the attacks n military vehicles. The police said the attacks were apparently made to force the troops to scatter,whereupon two of them would have Seen seized under cover of the general confusion and either hanged immediately or held as hostages for the two terrorists now under sentence of death. Bloodhounds took the scent from: ihe hangmen's nooses and led the oolice to a residential area, wher a cache containing grenades, flashbombs, ammunitioh, small arms and detonators was found. The authorities have imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in the JeWisK areas of Jerusalem until further notic'e. The curfew is believed to have been imposed because of the impending exeCution of the terrorists Meyer Feinstein and Moshe Barazani, who are in Jerusalem Centr^I Prison under sentence of death.