The captain of the Empire Heywood, one of the British ships engaged in transferring visaless Jews from vessels intercepted off Palestine to the island of Cyprus, has been arrested by the military authorities for refusing to sail his ship with Jewish deportees to Cyprus, it was revealed here today. He will face a military trial.
Military police today raided the Zichron Yakov quarter of Jerusalem and arrested fifteen Jews who were immediately sent to the Latrun detention camp where earlier, thirty-five Jewish settlers were administratively sentenced to unlimited detention.
Four more Arabs died today at the Jaffa hospital as a result of the attacks there by Jewish extremists last Friday. The number of Arabs killed in the incidents has now reached eight.
A clash between Arab shepherds and Jewish settlers at the Tel Adashim settlement, several miles south of Nazareth, today resulted in minor injuries to four Arabs and the serious wounding of one Jew. The fight broke out when Jewish settlers attempted to eject the trespassing shepherds.
Two shots were fired late last night at the police post of Sarafand El Kharab, ten miles southeast of Tel Aviv. Thinking that it was the prelude to an attack, nervous policemen replied with half an hour’s gunfire. There were no casualties and no damage.
JEWISH AGENCY CONDEMNS IRGUN ATTACKS ON BANKS AND KILLING OF ARABS
The recent attacks in Palestine were strongly condemned today “as a form of gangsterism” by the Jewish Agency. The Agency issued a statement here saying the outrages were “the work of elements who do not accept the discipline of the organized Jewish community and who do not seem to understand that their actions recoil on the heads of the Jewish community which abominates them.”
The Agency expressed sorrow that the raids took a “toll of innocent Arab lives, particularly as, even in days of strained relations, every effort has always been made by the Jews to prevent injury or suffering to people with whom they have no quarrel.”
A broadcast by the Irgun Zvai Leumi over its secret radio, “Voice of Fighting Zion,” contained a statement which Jewish circles here consider an apology for Friday’s raids on the Jaffa and Tel Aviv banks. “Other underground movements have huge budgets, we have not,” said the broadcast, “therefore, we are sometimes compelled to take measures conflicting with our conscience.”
The broadcast announced that relations between the Irgun and other underground movements have entered a new phase. “Soon we will remain isolated, but in the mean-time our strength will grow and we will be able to attack more often,” it said. The broadcaster said that the Haganah will soon turn against the Irgun.
It was officially announced today that Robert Scott, Palestine Government Financial Secretary, has been named Acting Chief Secretary pending the arrival of H.L. Gurney, who was recently appointed to succeed Sir John Shaw. Gurney was formerly Colonial Secretary for the Gold Coast. Sir John left Palestine Friday.
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