More than twenty-five armed men, believed to be Jews, today attacked a store of the Joint Industrial Supplies Association here, overpowered three watchmen and drove off with two truckloads of yarn valued at $18,000.
The area in the vicinity of the store was cordoned off by the raiders during the attack. It was the second robbery of the Joint Supplies Association, clearing house for yarn and other Palestine Government-controlled goods, in two months.
In Jerusalem Palestine police and military last night searched a district inside the curfew area and detained six men, it was announced today.
Capt. Itzhak Ben-Ahron has been convicted by a British military court for making an unauthorized address before the Palestine National Assembly last November, in which he criticized the action of British troops who invaded Jewish settlements in search of “visaless” immigrants. His sentence will not be disclosed until it is reviewed by the commanding general.
The Arab press reports today that the Palestine Government is preparing to auction off the 200-ton motor vessel Chana Scenes which was confiscated after bringing in several hundred Jewish immigrants.
The association of cinema owners in Tel Aviv today declined to exhibit a film produced by the Cairo office of the British Ministry of Information, showing the recent bombings in Jerusalem, because it charged the film was accompanied by a commentary of “clearly anti-Zionist character.” The association will ask the Jewish Agency to protest against the making of anti-Zionist films.
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