In a surprise raid this morning, British troops, for the second time within a week, entered the township of Rishon L’Zion in a hunt for terrorists.
The troops arrived at 6 a.m. and imposed a curfew lasting until 1 p.m. House-to-house searches were made and men between 16 and 40 were segregated until their identity had been checked. Seventy persons were detained for further interrogation. There were no incidents, and the township council sent a letter to the colonel in command stating that the behavior of his troops was above reproach.
Last night, fully equipped troops, carrying field telephones, magnetic mine detectors and searchlights mounted on trucks, surrounded and searched the mixed Arab-Jewish-English Taibiye quarter of Jerusalem. An identity check was also made in the center of the city.
A new Arab secret “blood organization” in leaflets posted in streets here, today threatened death of Arab “renegades” who sell land to Jews. The organization, first to appear since operations of similar Arab secret societies in the Palestine disturbances of 1936 to 1939, stated a second warning would be issued and would be followed by execution of the death threat.
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