A force of more than 2,000 airborne troops formed a cordon today around four sections of Tel Aviv, while Palestine police and the military carried out a six-hour search and interrogated several hundred men.
Loudspeaker trucks toured the area announcing that a curfew was imposed for the duration of the search. Later it was officially reported that two persons were held for further questioning.
As tension between the Jewish population and the British authorities mounted, the Palestine Government announced today that Jamal Husseini, Arab extremist leader, who was exiled from Palestine in 1937 for inciting anti-Jewish and anti-British terror, has been allowed to re-enter the country. Husseini was released last month from British internment in Southern Rhodesia, where he had been held since 1942.
Meanwhile, the underground Jewish radio the “Voice of Israel,” today warned the authorities that the Jewish resistance movement will oppose the rigid emergency defense regulations promulgated on Monday. Asserting that Palestine was a mandated area and not a British colony, the broadcast said that “we know that we can expect from you a series of terrorist acts, but we will be compelled to reply, and the Holy land will be converted into a bloodbath. We officially inform you,” the Jewish radio added, “that the Jewish resistance does not recognize your laws and carrying them out will be considered a criminal act.”
(A dispatch from the Router correspondent in Palestine, published today in London, quoted the underground newspaper of the Hagansh as saying that it would bring five times as many visaless Jews into Palestine this year as it did in 1945.)
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