The Revisionist Party today denied reports in the local press that the police recently raided the organization’s headquarters in Capetown. Despite an official silence on the part of the police, it was ?arned from reliable sources that Betar, the Revisionist youth organization in Capetown, was raided following receipt of reports that members of the group were training with arms and storing weapons for Palestine.
Meanwhile, a local newspaper, Die Vaderland, has published an article charging that the Revisionists are purchasing planes and ammunition in South Africa for shipment to the Sternists in Palestine. The newspaper adds that the Haganah informed the local police and that Premier Jan Christian Smuts has issued secret instructions to the authorities to halt these activities.
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