MAYORS ARRESTED

Chronicle (Levin), 6 August 1947, Page 5

MAYORS ARRESTED

Rcceivod Tuesday, 9 p.m. JERUSALEM, August 5. Police and soldiers arrested the May ora ot Tel Aviv, Ramatgan and -Xallianya and Revisionist Rightist le-iders througliout Palestine. The British TTiited Press c-orrespondeut says it is believed the arrests were made bec'iuse oi' suspieion of eomplicity with the irgun Zvai Leumi. A moss'age from Jerusalem says that the British Army at snnset today moved into tlie Jewislv. colony of Givat • Slinul, outside Jerusalem, andblasted to luts a stone slianty where a large eaehe of arms and aminunition had been dis co\ ered. The Army was ac-ting under a neu law providing for the dvnamiting of buildings proved to have been used for underground purposes. The Army lirst cordoned the colony and evacuated nearby residents, and then detonated a cha'rge which Royal Lngineers had buried in the cellar floor. Three nearby roofs were damaged and scores of windows shattered. There were tio casuallies. The parents of a missing Jew, Alexander Rubowitz, have petitioned the Suprenie Court for an order nisi calling upon four Britons to show cause why they. sliould not produce the bodv oi Rubowitz. The four Britons are. .Major A. Farran, fornier DeputySuperint endent of Ihe Palestine Police, M r. W. X. Gray, Inspector-General of Police,- and two police oflicers, Brigadier B. Fergusson and Superintendent C. Iladingham. The hearing has been fixed for Angust 7. The niilitarv have completed a summarv oi the evidenee in the Rubowitz case and a statement is • cxpected whether or not Major Farran, who has been under close arrest since July 3, will face a court-mariial. Rubowitz is said to have been a member of the Stern Gang, Tle was last seen being forcibly driven olf in a car by a plain-clothed man. Major I" anan disappeared twice during the in vestigations and later gave himself up. Seven young Jews and one Jewess killed a Jewish bank otlicial and also wounded the manager of BarclaVs Bank at flaifa todav and escaped with £1300. Crowds around the bank tried to slop the bandits, who escaped in a taxi.