Additional British troops arrived in Palestine today to reinforce the four divisions, about 60,000 men according to reliable estistes, which have been pouring into this country in the past few weeks.
Today’s arrivals were units of the Sixth Airborne Division, the bulk of which is believed to be here already. They disembarked at Haifa from the troopship Ascania, whose last visit to Palestine was in Sept., when it brought 1,600 refugees from France and German concentration camps.
Anchored in Haifa harbor and in the waters offshore are four British destroyers and a cruiser. The destroyers Milne and Stevenstone have been patrolling the coast, apparently to thwart landings of illogal immigrants.
The Palestine Post reports today that British police armed with tommyguns descended yesterday on a police post at Mansoura near Haifa which had been manned by forty Jewish supernumerary police, and ordered the Jews to clear out within two hours. A detachment of the Arab Legion was then assigned to the post. The Jewish police had been guarding a Royal Naval stores depot, where 300 Jewish workers are employed.
The police today issued a bulletin denying their own report of yesterday, which claimed that a group of armed men had attempted to break into a naval depot near Athlit, resulting in an exchange of shots with police guards. The report was apparently based on shots fired by an apprehensive guard.
It is reported here that prior to the recent transfer of 250 Jewish terrorist suspects from a camp in the Sudan to Eritrea, seven of the internees escaped. One has since been recaptured in a Cairo cafe.
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