- Friday, November 30, 1945

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Five

aids on Palestine Colonies Increase Strife

9 More Jews Die, 100 Hurt
In Defense of Settlements

Troops Withdrawn Early in Week as Labor Pauses in Tribute
to Martyrs; Situation Remains Tense as Protests are
Cabled to Leaders in England and U. S.

(Special Cable to the Jewish News)

JERUSALEM—Determination by British forces to halt
the entrance of Jews unless they are admitted on visas issued
by the British authorities this week resulted in attacks upon
Jewish colonies by police and in the death of nine Jews.
More than 100 were wounded.

Senate Determined to Act
On Resolution by Monday

WASHINGTON (JPS)—The Senate Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee met here but reached no decision on the Palestine
resolution. Your correspondent is reliably informed that fail-
ure to act was due to a request by Secretary of State Byrnes
that no action be taken pending a statement by Foreign Secre-
tary Bevin announcing the composition of the Anglo-American
Inquiry Committee. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
is determined, however, to act on the resolution by next
Monday, Dec. 3, regardless of whether Mr. Bevin issues his
announcement by then.

While troops were withdrawn finally on Tuesday, the
situation remains tense and protests against the inhuman
British policies are being cbled to labor leaders in England
and the U. S.
The colonies and villages invaded are north of Tel Aviv
and on the coastal plain.
the usual way and returned

In tribute to the memory of
the martyrs of the latest British
action, all of Palestine's activities
were at a standstill on Tuesday in
response to the Vaad Leumi's
call that labor stop to honor the
dead.

British Troops Force
Way Into Settlements
PETACH TIKVAH, (JPS-Pal-
cor)—Nine Jews dead and 90
wounded is the reported toll to
date as a result of pitched battles
between British troops and Jew-
ish settlers in the Hefer Valley
and Sharon Plain where the
troops used tear gas and wooden
staves to force their way into
Jewish settlements in search of
"illegal" immigrants. The set-
tlements involved are Shefayin,
where 17 Jews were wounded in
a two-hour battle at dawn; Rish-
pon, where Abraham Chinski, 19,
was killed and three were wound-
ed; Kfar Hagola and Kfar Haroe
of Hapoel Hamizrachi, Zionist
labor group, Givat Chaim where
two settlers were killed and 30
wounded.
News spread like wildfire
throughout the country, . raising
tension to the exploding point,
especially among thousands of
outraged residents of this town
who clogged the highway since
dawn to break through a police
cordon and reached the settle-
ment Shefayin, which was a
shambles after the two-hour bat-
tle between the troops and bare-
handed Jewish men, women and
adolescents.
As news of the raid, and its re-
sults, at Shefayim reached here
bells tolled and Jewish youths,
reminiscent of Colonial America's
Paul Revere, rushed through the
streets of Petach Tikvah shout-
ing: "All Jews to the help of their
brethren!"
Thousands streamed out of
homes, offices, workshops and
from the fields onto the highway
to Shefayim, troops maintained
a curfew on the road leading to-
ward Shefayim, and military
planes circled low overhead pa-
trolling the area.

marked: "Passed by censor!"
Hamashkif was suspended for
quoting a statement by Revision-
ist leader Dr. Aryeh Altman who
told a press conference that Jews
in Britain are beginning to suffer
from anti-Semitism.
The Jewish desistance move-
ment struck at the Palestine coast
guard in the dawn of Nov. 25
and destroyed two stations serv-
ing as bars to the unauthorized
admission of Jewish refugees
into Palestine.
Coast Guard Warned
The attack, after an advance
warning to the Coast Guard per-
sonnel to vacate the premises,
followed the illegal landing of
two-hundred Jewish refugees on
Palestine's shores and their rapid
distribution in Jewish settle-
ments, before the Royal Navy
caught the schooner, which
brought them in the night of
Nov. 23. The attack on the
coast guard resulted in the im-
mediate cordoning off of at least
five Jewish settlements in the
Sharon Plain and Samaria, and
in Jews from the entire vicinity
flocking to these settlements to
prevent searches for "illegal im-
migrants," in the words of the of-
ficer conducting the search.
The road curfew was reim-
posed at 5:30 Nov. 23 until 5:30
a. m. Nov. 26 on the entire Lydda
Civil District by Maj. General
Bols commanding the Sixth Air-
borne Division in his capacity as
Military Commander of the civil
area.
Two Defiant Broadcasts
Voice of Israel, the clandestine
radio station of the Jewish resist-
ance movement, made two de-
fiant broadcasts Nov. 25: one an-
nounced that the two-hundred
"illegals" who landed Nov. 23 at
dawn have been "generously ac-
commodated" in Jewish settle-
ments throughout the country;
the other, in English, taunted the
British Royal Navy for "sullying
its great reputation by under-
taking this small pitiful feat" of
hounding Jewish refugees seek-
ing to enter Palestine. The
famed Altmark incident was com-
pared to the capture of the
schooner Berl Katzenelson. "The
Navy did not lose a ship or man
(in its 'battle' with the Katzenel-
son) but it lost honor," the an-
nouncer said.
The announcer denied a story
published by Falastin, Jaffa Arab
daily, that a vessel bringing Jew-
ish refugees from Romania had
struck a mine and was sunk at
sea. This is untrue, the an-
nouncer said, and the Falastin
apparently wishes to prevent
Jews from coming to Palestine
by circulating such fearsome
stories."

Hebrew Papers Suspended
For 'Security Reasons'
TEL AVIV, (JPS-Palcor) —
Two antipodal Hebrew dailies,
Labor's organ Davar and the
Zionist - Revisionist Hamashkif,
were suspended for a week each
for the alleged publication of
"matter regarded as likely to af-
fect public security." Davar was
suspended for a cartoon in its
Friday's issue showing children
lying bandaged in bed with a
doctor telling his colleague:
"What good snipers! They didn't
miss such small targets as these!" New Republic Hails Bevin,
Davar claims that the cartoon Scores "Jewish Racism"
NEW YORK (JPS)—New R e
was submitted for censorship in

public, in an editorial, asserts
that the new Anglo-American
committee to study the emigra-
tion needs of European Jews and
the Palestine problem "contains,
potentially, a more satisfactory
solution than either of the par-
tisan groups (Zionists and Arabs)
are willing to admit," and scores
alleged "Zionist-Jewish racist na-
tionalism."
If the U. S. is to accept re-
sponsibility for helping to solve
the Palestine problem "it must
not go in with its hands tied,"
and President Truman "should
make sure that the inquiry into
the problem of Palestine is un-
hampered by Mr. Bevin's ready.
made pre-judgments," Freda
Kirchwey, editor and publisher
of The Nation, liberal weekly,
declares in an editorial.

Ibn Saud Says He May
Fight British, Not Jews

NEW YORK (JPS)—King Ibn
Saud, of Saudi Arabia, in a state-
ment to Abdul. Rahmann Nasr,
editor of the Arab News Agency,
warned that if the solution to the
Palestine problem proved unsat-
isfactory to the Arabs, "it would
be an issue between Britain and
the Arabs and not between Arabs
and Jews," it is reported in a
Cairo dispatch to the New York
Times. At the same time, Ibn
Saud cautioned Arabs not to "in-
crease Britain's difficulties" at
present.

Announce Names of Victims
In Latest Palestine Strife

David Ben Gurion Cables Protest to Attlee and Churchill
Against Invasion of Colonies; Histadruth Seeks
Trade Unions to Intervene in Dispute

(Special Cable to the Jewish News)

TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Jewish community of Palestine counted
its dead and wounded Tuesday morning after a day in which
British troops, estimated variously at from 10,000 to 15,000, broke
into five Jewish villages, clubbed and shot men, women and chil-
dren and arrested over 150 persons.
According to latest reports nine Jews were killed and 100
wounded. Names of the eight known dead are: Eli Melech Stark-
man, 33; Jacob Adato, 17; Naphtali Steinfeld, 19; Eliahu Cohen-
Chimsky, age unknown; Koshe Moiseiev, 21; Joseph Rosenberg, 37;
Uri Oppenheimer, 23, and a 19-year-old girl, Ayala Tenenbaum.
Scores of seriously wounded are in hospitals at Petach Tikvah
and Tel Aviv and others returned to their homes after receiving
first aid.
Funeral services for the dead were held Tuesday afternoon
and were observed throughout the country by a half-hour work
stoppage called by the Jewish National Council. Leaders of the
council, the Jewish Agency and Chief Rabbis Herzog and Usiel
attended the services.
Meanwhile, bitter protests have been sent by the Jewish
Agency and the Histadruth to the authorities. David Ben Gurion,
chairman of the Agency Executive, cabled Prime Minister Attlee,
former Prime Minister Churchill and labor party headquarters
protesting against the invasion of the colonies and the behavior of
the troops during the searches.
The Histadruth cabled the British labor party, the British
Trades Union Congress, the CIO and the AFL in the U. S., urging
them to intervene to prevent future catastrophes, which it said
are sure to follow if the policy of barring Jews from Palestine is
maintained.
In Haifa Monday night all Jewish shops closed after 6 o'clock
and two huge protest meetings were held.

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