About 3,000 Jews were rounded up here today in a new raid in the area of Jaffa Road, Jerusalem’s main street, which was cordoned off by mobile police. Armored cars lined the street as the police herded people into an improvised barbed wire street pen. The detainees were removed for identification to a camp on the outskirts of the city.
While the raid was in progress, the authorities officially announced a relaxation of the curfew period for Jerusalem from sixteen to twelve hours. The new hours are 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Inhabitants of the Shaare Chesed and Yemin Moshe quarters of Jerusalem today submitted a formal protest to the authorities against the searches conducted there during the last few days. The protests point out that no suspicious articles were discovered during the raids.
An underground chemical laboratory was discovered last night in a cellar on Disengoff Street in Tel Aviv following an explosion there. When the police arrived on the scene of the blast, they smelled chemical fumes. A search of the cellar led to the discovery of many bomb parts, solid and fluid explosives, test tubes and tools to prepare bombs, as well as a stock of Sternest propaganda leaflets. No members of the Stern Group were found in the building, but the landlord was detained for interrogation, while his son was arrested.
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