Despite the fact that the United Nations has rendered no decision in the Palestine case and that Britain has made no public announcement as to its intentions in the Mandate, the Palestine Government has already undertaken several steps which might tend to indicate to the public that the British Administration is preparing to close its books.
Among such moves was an order to its statistical department to draw up estimates of the amount of money required to compensate civil service employees for loss of their jobs if the government is liquidated. In addition, each department has been asked to estimate the costs of liquidation.
Three tons of gold, almost the entire reserve of the Barclay’s Bank of Palestine, were flown to London today. The British Government has been drawing heavily on Empire gold reserves to buy dollars in the world market.
A group of five or six Jews this afternoon attempted to rob Isaac Ingelmeir, a diamond broker, in Tel Aviv. He fought them off but not before they had beaten him severely and fired one shot, wounding a passer-by.
Nathanya’s Mayor Oved Ben Ami, Revisionist Party chairman Dr. Arieh Altmann and several other Revisionist leaders were today transferred from Latrun prison camp “B” to “A”.
The military commander of Jerusalem announced the confiscation of a house in the city in which the Irgun had imprisoned a member of the Haganah.
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