Twenty-two members of Congress, headed by Senator Alben Barkley, Senate minority leader, arrived at Lydda airport from Cairo where they are to attend the first post-war meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Several of the Congressmen will make extended fact-finding visits here following conclusion of the Cairo meeting.
The British deportation ship ### Rival, frequently used to transport illegal Jewish immigrants from Palestine to Cyprus, was damaged by an explosion yesterday while proceeding from Haifa to Port Said, in Egypt. The vessel arrived in Port Said with several feet of water in its hold.
Meanwhile, the Haganah claimed full responsibility for the recent blasting of another British vessel, the Ocean Vigour, off the coast of Cyprus where the ship had taken a group of illegal immigrants. In pamphlets, the underground announced it would continue to fight for immigration and warned “dissenters to cease their terror.”
In Nicosia, Cyprus, it was reported that a 21-year-old Jew, Vizel Arieh, was being held on charges of placing explosives aboard the Ocean Vigo## The police stated that Arieh was arrested on the seashore shortly after the explosion and was still too exhausted to be questioned to determine how he reached Cyprus.
It was learned here that Joseph Frumkin, Jewish labor leader, who was assaulted last week, was shot by two Jewish youths who had been instructed by the underground to kill Frumkin for allegedly acting as an informer.
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