British reconnaissance planes this morning sighted small vessel reportedly carrying visaless Jewish immigrants, it was learned here today.
The ship, believed to be named the Yehuda Halevi, was first sighted some 200 ?dles off the Palestine coast. It is understood that she is carrying 450 passengers. ?aval vessels have put out of Haifa to intercept her.
The trial of five Jews charged with participation in the Acre prison break on ?ay 4 resumed today with the prosecution continuing its case. A pair of blood stain?d trousers, several Sten guns and a number of landmines, allegedly taken from the ?risoners, were introduced as evidence.
The Stern Group has demanded that the government reveal the whereabouts of a Jew named Robowitz who, it alleged, was kidnapped three weeks ago by a number of men representing themselves as policemen. Otherwise, the Stern Group declared, it will accept as correct,rumors to the effect that Robowitz was tortured and murdered by the police and will “avenge” him.
GENERAL ZIONISTS, MIZRACHI PROTEST DATE, SITE OF ACTIONS COMMITTEE MEETING
The Mizrachi, Poale Mizrachi and the General Zionists have voiced opposition to the Jewish Agency decision to hold a plenary session of the Zionist Actions Committee in Jerusalem June 15. Leaders of these parties have informed the Jewish Telegraphic {SPAN}##gency{/SPAN} that if American members of the Action Committee and the Agency inform the Agency’s Jerusalem section that they will not attend the meeting, Rabbi Judah Fish?an, Mizrachi, and Dr. Itzhak Gruenbaum, General Zionist, will demand at Sunday’s meeting of the Agency executive that the date be changed and that the meeting be held outside of Palestine.
Meanwhile, the Revisionists have protested the Agency’s decision to give them only partial rights within the Zionist movement because “the dissolution of the (Revisionist) Organization has not received proper publicity.” The Revisionists assert that this is merely a tactic to deny them representation before the Actions Committee meets. They maintain that the announcement of the disbandment of their organization was made public to the widest extent possible and that Goldie Meirson, political head of the Jerusalem section of the Agency, was satisfied that they had given the dissolution sufficient publicity.
It was learned today that Mrs. Meirson is flying tomorrow to London on route to Geneva and that she will return to Jerusalem before the U.N. inquiry committee starts its hearings there. Reports are circulating here that the government has ordered all its departments to hire only Arabs if extra personnal is needed to handle work in preparation for the inquiry committee’s investigations.
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