DEATH SENTENCE ON JEWISH YOUTHS
(Press Assn
PRECAUTIONS FOULOW agency rejects appeal to resist terrorism'
.—Rec. 9.30 p.m.)
JERUSALEM, Feb. 11. t • Three of the four Jewish youths on trial for carrying fir.earms and whips wheii British troops searchecl Palestine . for terrorisfs who fiogged a British otficer and three N.C.O.'s on December 29 were to-day sentenced to be hanged. The fourth, aged 17, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The four refused to plead when charged before a military co-urt. They were Dov Rosenbaum, aged 24, Xaim Gorovevsky, the minor, Eliahu Kashani, aged 23, and Mordeehai Alkoshi, aged 21. The prosecutor -told the eourt that British troops stopped a car after the floggirig of Major Brett. Rosenbaum g-ot out, armed with a sub-machine gun. Gorovevsky threw a revolver at the ti'oops and resisted arrest. Kashani had two raw-hide whips, and a fifth man, who later died, had a revolver aiid two. plastic bombs' in his pocket. Immediately after the sentences all troops in Jerusalem were confined to barracks. Police posts were reinforced and arms issuied to p'icked memhers of all the Jewish municipal police in Tel Aviv. In reply to the Palestine Government's ultimatum seeking Jewish collaboration against terrorism, the Jewish agency says that any appeal to resist terrorism on the lines the Government suggested would be ineffective, and likely to eause more harm than good. The Jewish community does not feel able to resist terrorism by using the resources of a Government which is enforcing a policy which the community regards as a breach of the country's fundamental law. Vaad Leumi, also refusing to collaborate, said it "found itself unable to call on the Jewish community, engaged as it is in a struggle for rights and freedom, to accede to the.request." British Plan Rejected The Jews and the Arabs have definitely rejected Ihe new British proposals for Palestine, says Reuter. The Arab reply was sent to Mr. Bevin today. Jam Ali, spo'kesman for the , Arab delegation to the London conference, said the delegation rejected th^ latest British plan. The Arabs considered the proposal unsuitable to form a basis for discussion. Reuter says it is imderstood the Arab reply reiterates the mininium Arab demands for an iiulependent Palestine with guaranteed rights for a Jewish' minority. The Jewj^h agency executive meets to-night to draw up its final reply. It is semi-officially stated at their London headquaiters that they regard the new proposals as even vvorse than the Morrison plan and in no sense a basis for discussion. In Cairo to-day, Amin el Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, told the leaders of Najada and Fetewa (the Palestinian Arabs' youth armies) : "There is now no other way to solve the Palestine question except by bloody revolution."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5326, 12 February 1947, Page 5
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