Two British policemen were today kidnapped from a swimming pool in Ramath Gan, near Tel Aviv, by a group of about a dozen extremists. Two British soldiers who were present at the time were not molested.
The terrorists, armed with tommy guns, held up about 150 Jews who were swimming or sunbathing and carried off the two Pritons, one of whom was slugged when he resisted. Two of the gang stood on guard outside the pool during the abduction. Several smoke bombs were set off to cover their successful escape in a waiting automobile.
Several hours before the kidnapping the Haganah appealed to the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Sternists not to "create an atmosphere which might prejudice the Jewish case before the United Nations Palestine Committee."
Earlier, British troops searching the Jewish section of Givat Shaul, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, found ten sticks of explosives. More than 150 soldiers took part in the house-to-house search.
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