All newspaper and news agency offices in Tel(##)v today received annonymous telephone calls notifying them that the two British (##)diers kidnapped last Saturday were now in Tel Aviv.
The callers, who identified themselves as Irgun spokesmen, said that they (##) called to inform the authorities that there was no longer any need to keep (##)hanya under military control. The calls precipitated rumors, which remained (##)erified, that the abducted men had been released.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Government agreed tonight to broadcast a joint (##)eal by British Labor M.P.’s. Richard Crossman and Maurice Edelman asking the (##)gun to release the kidnapped soldiers. They described the abduction as “a crime (##)ronting the conscience of all decent persons” and appealed to all Jews to (##)revent the crime from reaching fruition…which will have disastrous results (##) the cause which the kidnappers think they serve.”
Troops continued today to comb Nathanya for the two Britons, but without (##)cess. Final figures on last night’s series of explosions, which the Irgun (##)ounced were aimed at freeing Nathanya of martial law, are one British soldier (##)ed and 15 persons injured, Police and soldiers this morning were still stopping (##)d questioning all pedestrians and cars in the vicinity of the two blasts in (##)usalem.
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