British troops today raided a garment factory in Tel Aviv on a tip that one of the leaders of the Jewish resistance forces was hiding there. A thorough search of the premises, however, was without result.
For the first time since June 29, whom the building was occupied by British troops, the unarrested members of the Jewish Agency executive met today in their headquarters here. Among those present was Rabbi Judah L. Fishman, who was released from Latrun prison on Friday by the High Commissioner because of the precarious condition of his health.
At a press conference here today, Rabbi Fishman denied that he was anti-British, pointing to the fact that he urged that Britain be given the mandate over Palestine and during World War I had criticized those Jews who, at first, supported Germany. He said that England has no better friends than the Jews, and then quoted verse 19 of chapter 1 of Lamentations: “I called to my lovers, but they deceived me.”
The aged Mizrachi leader criticized the British for having arrested him on the Sabbath, declaring that although he had been detained by Czarist police in Russia and by Turkish authorities in Palestine, on both occasions the police had taken special pains to avoid violating his religious precepts by forcing him to ride on Saturday.
A police communique issued last night said that boxes containing smoke bombs and home-made grenades had been found on the grounds of the Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus. The communique also disclosed that Benjamin Papanek, one of the two alleged informers kidnapped by the Haganah had turned up at a Haifa police station. The other abducted youth was released several days ago.
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