Terrorist Threat To Destroy Railways

Chronicle (Levin), 11 August 1947, Page 5

Terrorist Threat To Destroy Railways

( N.Z.P.A. -

-Reuter,

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. Received Sunday, 11.0 p.m. LONDON, August 10.The security police in Tel Aviv last night began a sudden series oi iarrests of leaders of the Jewish Revisionist Party, says the British United Press correspondent in Jerusalem. At least three leaders of thc party are known to have been arrest ed-, including the chief editor of the party 's paper Hamashkif. The News of the "World 's corre spondent in Jerusalem reports that cash thefts from Palestine hanks and business houses by Jewish terroists are likely to increase because the terrorists' funds last week wel-e cut from two direc tions. Palestine Imsinessmen have at last refused to be threatened into subsci'ihing money to 'the terrorists and money suddenl) ceased to come from the Bergson group in Amei'iea. The -correspondent opines that the Bergson group learned that Irgun Zvai Leumi had also heen receiving money from "a foreign Power". . . A driver and fircman were kille.G wlien an electrically-detonated mine de railed. a locomotive and four carriago of the Cairo-Haifa express outside Te; Aviv. Troops returning from leave in Egypt were uninjured. Reuter 's correspondent says th« police fought a running gun battle with three Jewish terrorists seen runniny awav shortly after the mine exploded The police later arrested two Jews, otu of whom was wounded. Both were ro ported to have carried arms. A tlurd Jew who was carrving a Thomson sub , machinegun escaped. Irgun Zvai Leumi threatened t:.j destroy every sing'le vard of railway line in Palestine. The terrorists de livered pamphlets to citrus fruit grow ers warniug tliem to arrange transpon of their produce by road. Irgun boasted: "The railways will be entirelv out of action by the time your fruit is ripe."