Jewish National Council Names Committee to Draft Constitution for Jewish State

The Jewish National Council today appointed a six-man committee to draft a constitution for the projected Jewish state.

At the same time, Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog announced that he was preparing the draft of a constitution to be submitted to a committee of rabbis for approval before being presented to national institutions.

Newspapermen travelling between Relowoth and Beersheba found all military camps along the route have been evacuated. Some of the camps were being guarded by Arab police. The Government announced yesterday that 30,000 troops have already been evacuated and 10 percent of the military camps released.

Five Arabs were lined up against a wall and machinegunned to death today by eight armed Sternists who had dragged them from a house near Herzlia a short distance from the scene of a British massacre of five Sternists last week. It is thought that the Arabs were responsible for tipping off the British to the Sternist training camp. The five Arabs were not selected at random, but were individually sought out by their executioners.

Several hours later nine Jews were wounded when a Jewish-operated bus was fired upon when it passed an Arab village on the road between Tel Aviv and Holon. There was considerable tension in Arab-populated Jaffa tonight as a result of the Sternists’ action, which was condemned at a press conference by a Jewish Agency spokesmen.

A former German woman member of the Gestapo and a supervisor at the George-hoff concentration camp was recognized by a Jewish refugee at a Jewish Agency hostel in Haifa, it was reported here today. The woman, Betty Kellman, 26, who escaped from Germany after the collapse of the Hitler regime disguised as a Jew, did not deny her true identity. It is expected that the authorities will deport her to Czechoslovakia.