Col. Thomas Gerrard Gore, commanding officer of a British Army unit in Palestine at the time of the proclamation of the State of Israel and the withdrawal of British forces from the country, was today cashiered from the British Army and sentenced to two years imprisonment following his conviction on charges that he sold British Army weapons to the Jewish underground in Palestine.
The British Army court martial that tried Col. Gore yesterday heard former Major Ralph Herbert Thomas Newman, his subordinate in Palestine, testify that the Colonel told him which weapons were surplus and destined for destruction. It was these weapons that were sold to the underground, Newman told the court. He was brought to testify from jail where he is serving a six-month term for his part in the affair.
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