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?lleged Terrorist Held by Syrian Police Starts Hunger Strike; Said to Be Sternist

June 11, 1947
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Baruch Moisevitch, alleged Jewish terrorist who ?as arrested on Sunday by Syrian police, has started a hunger strike in protest against his continued incarceration, according to a report from Danascus.

Moisevitch is alleged to have admitted that he was a member of the Stern ?roup and that he was one of the prisoners who escaped from Acre prison during the ?ail delivery on May 4. Syrian police authorities resumed interrogating him today, but he refused to answer any more questions.

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