Five small lifeboats bearing 293 Jewish refugees were picked up off Haifa today by the British Coast Guard. The refugees, clad only in bathing suits, included 60 women and 26 children. They were apparently from one of the many small freighters plying the Mediterranean in search of a haven for their passengers.
A Jewish supernumerary guarding the entrance to the police dock at Haifa was arrested and replaced by an Arab. The action followed the sinking of a police launch off Nathania yesterday after explosion of a time bomb. A British police sergeant was killed in the blast. The survivors, including two Jewish policemen, escaped in a lifeboat. The launch had been patrolling the Palestine coast between Jaffa and Haifa in search of illegal immigrants and was a mile off shore at the time of the explosion.
The Haifa Assize Court yesterday sentenced to a year’s imprisonment Mustafa Talay, Turkish captain of the steamship Los Parlos, captured off Nathania last month while trying to land 370 Jewish refugees. Thirteen of the ship’s crew were sentenced to terms of three months each and the ship was confiscated.
Six Revisionists were administratively sentenced to terms in the Government concentration camp at Sarafend. At the same times, 52 Arab prisoners were released from the Sarafend camp.
The death toll in the land mine explosion near Ekron reached four last night when Chanon Brot, 24, one of the two wounded ghaffirs, succumbed to his injuries.
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