Seven of nine Jewish youths arrested yesterday at the conclusion of Yom Kippur services when a shofar was sounded at the Wailing Wall in defiance of a police order were today imprisoned at the Latrun detention camp without trial. Among the reasons given for their imprisonment was refusal to submit to finger-printing.
In forcing their way through the masses of people, estimated at 5,000, to arrest the youths, the police used clubs and rifle butts, Violence was also used during the arrests and two of the detained boys were injured. The police were stationed in all adjoining streets and on roof tops overlooking the Wailing Wall in preparation for the "violation" of the police order which has been in effect since 1931 and has been defied by Jews virtually every Yom Kippur. It was estimated that 25,000 Jews visited the Wailing Wall just prior to and during Yom Kippur.
A pitched battle during which small arms, submachine guns and anti-personnel grenades were used took place in Rehovoth last night when a group of extremists attempted to beat up a member of the Haganah and his friends came to his support. The local police eventually joined the battle, which lasted an hour, and which ended when the dissidents fled. There were no casualties.
In another development in the underground struggle, the Haganah recovered and restored to their owner some $14,000 worth of jewels stolen from a store in Tel Aviv September 9. Five armed young Jews this afternoon held up the owner of another diamend factory and escaped with about $20,000 worth of gems.
David Ben Gurion, Siegfried Hoofien, director of the Anglo-Palestine Bank, Gad Frumkin, Jewish member of the Supreme Court, and Moshe Baharav, secretary of the League for Arab-Jewish Rapprochement, have received threatening letters signed by an Arab youth movement. This is the second death warning which they have received.
The Palestine Government has granted 25 immigration certificates to a group of Afghan Jews who are threatened with expulsion from India to which they fled from persecution in their native land.
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