A British military court today sentenced two youthful members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi to seven years imprisonment each, on charges of illegal possession of a quantity of hand grenades and bombs.
The defendants, Alexander Bogozovsky, 18, and Ezra Tarazi, 21, are to receive special treatment.” They were arrested on Feb. 14 on a bus traveling between Tel Aviv and Petach Tikvah.
Shortly after their trial opened, both youths dismissed their counsels, in protest against the defense they were offering. They then made a statement to the court declaring that they do not recognize the validity of British rule in Palestine, the new defense emergency regulations nor the country’s courts.
Several thousand singing, dancing Jews yesterday forced British troops to with draw from the village of Kfar Marmorek, which they had surrounded in a search for participants in Tuesday night’s blasting of railway lines.
When word was received that troops had arrived at the settlement, which is near Rehovoth, thousands of persons streamed towards there from all the neighboring colonies and towns. They surrounded the troops and began singing and dancing. After submitting this “cultural” assault for a short time, the soldiers withdrew.
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