Palestine police today announced the arrest of three Jewish men and one woman in the settlement of Rehovoth following the discovery of a cache of arms, ammunition and explosives in a house there.
The raid in Rehovoth was part of the nation-wide search which British troops and Palestine police units are carrying out in various sections of the country in an effort to find the three British officers kidnapped by the Irgun Zvai Leumi. The search for the kidnapped officers today entered its seventh day.
All vehicles entering or leaving Tel Aviv today were subjected to a close scrutiny by British troops. Infantry and police were also combing orchards and orange groves in the Tel Aviv area in the hope of finding a clue there to the whereabouts of the officers. Houses and cellars in settlements throughout the Sharon district were also chocked, but without results.
In Tel Aviv the police force became exclusively Jewish today, when British sergeants handed over the stations to Jewish officers. Immediately upon taking over the Jewish police officers removed the barbed wire entanglements from in front of all police stations in the city. Henceforth all local police duties will be carried out by Jewish policemen, except the combatting of “terrorism” for which the assistance of British police and military forces is required.
A British destroyer today intercepted a ship carrying 1,000 visaless immigrants and is escorting it to Haifa where it is expected to dock tomorrow, it was reported here. Another report says that R.A.F. reconnaissance planes have spotted another vessel with 1,300 persons aboard about 150 miles off the Palestine coast and that it is being kept under observation.
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