The Irgun today reiterated its intention of ba###ng the Haganah if the latter continues to provoke it. In a press statement issued might, the extremist group promised retaliation against the “provocation of the ##istance movement and said that if they did not cease and if “fratricidal war breaks ## the responsibility will rest with Haganah.”If a Jewish state in a partitioned Palestine becomes a fait accompli, the Re?lonists will participate in the government, Dr. Arich L. Altman, head of the Revi##nist Party, declared here today at his first press conference since his release from extention. He insisted, however, that his party would continue to oppose any partian scheme until such a time.
The headquarters of the Transjordan Frontier Force has been moved from near ##n, capital of Transjordan, to Rosh Pinah, in eastern Galilee, it was officially counced during the week-end. Answering Jewish criticism of the replacement of Bri## troops on the northern Palestine border by units of the T.F.F., a Palestine ##rnment spokesman attributed the move to an over-all reduction in the number of ##ish soldiers in Palestine. He asserted that one brigade recently left Palestine, #assitating a redeployment of forces in the country. Meanwhile, the Arab press re##ted that Taha Hashimi Pasha, former Iraqi Chief of Staff, has been appointed “Commander-in-Chief of Arab forces in the Middle East.”Two “banner bombs” exploded in Jerusalem during the week-end, alerting all po## and military forces in the city and resulting in at least two people being in##d Consisting of banners strung across Zion Square, with explosives attached at ## ends, they carried slogans opposing the partitioning of Palestine. Similar bombs, by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, exploded in Tel Aviv when police attempted to tear them ##.
Col, Bernard Ferguson, senior Palestine police officer who refused to testify the recent court-martial of Capt. Roy Farran on the grounds that he “would ininate.” himself, has resigned from the Palestine police force. He is now stationed reece.
Reports from Cyprus said that the transport Patris has sailed for Haifa with Jews aboard, completing the quota for September and including 150 of the October
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