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Secret” Documents of Palestine Government Found in Possession of Haganah

August 10, 1947
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Government circles today reported that police ##horities are investigating what may be the biggest security leak in the history ##the Palestine Government.The report said that British soldiers, searching a car, allegedly found two ##s in possession of four brief cases containing “top secret” government and mili##y files, The Jews, reportedly members of the Haganah, were arrested, but were ##er released on bail.

A Jewish delegation, headed by Isaac Ben Zvi, president of the Jewish National ##mcil, today called on the Acting Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government and ##ivered to him the resolutions adopted yesterday at the emergency session of the Jewish Hational Assembly, demanding the re##ease of the three arrested Jewish mayors other elected Jewish officials. The mayors yesterday refused to answer any ques##ns put to them by officers of the British secret service.Five Jewish youths dressed in khaki and armed with automatic pistols today ##d up the Hasharon Cooperative Bank in Ramath Gan and escaped with about $4,000 in ##h and $20,000 in checks. An hour later a Yemenite Jew presented one of the stolen ##cks for payment at the Ottoman Bank in Tel Aviv but, when the cashier became sus##ious, he fled leaving the check behind.

Six men and one woman were detained today at Kfar Hayim, when a quantity of il##gal pamphlets were found in their taxi. At the same time, it was reported from ##ro that three Arabs were arrested by Egyptian border guards in the Sinai desert, ##r the Palestine frontier, when they attempted to smuggle arms into Palestine from ##pt. Their camels were loaded with several tommyguns, seventy-five rifles and sev##l hundred rounds of British-made cartridges.

ARRESTED JEWS WILL BE RELEASED AFTER THREE WEEKS, ARABS PREDICT

The Arab press today reported that the interrogation of the arrested Jewish may{SPAN}##{/SPAN} and Revisionist leaders will be concluded within three weeks, after which a “con{SPAN}##derable number” of them will be released. The report is allegedly based on informa##on from “official sources,” but no confirmation could be obtained.{/SPAN}It was revealed today that in their hunt for Revisionist leaders, the police {SPAN}##dded{/SPAN} a house on Bilu Street in Tel Aviv, searching for Meir Grossman, noted Revision{SPAN}##t{/SPAN} leader. Mr. Grossman, who used to live in the house eleven years ago, is now in {SPAN}##e{/SPAN} United States and has been there for several years.

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