THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Fourteen

Jews' Secret Aid
To British Revealed

'greement Made When Rommel Stormed Egypt Was
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Kept 'Top Secret'; One of.Special Training Centers
I Was Yagur, Focus of Recent Raids

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The details of a secret agreement
between British military headquarters and the Jewish Agen-
cy for Jewish assistance to British troops who stood alone
against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel when he was storming
the defenses of Egypt, had been published in the magazine
"Palestine and the Middle East."

The agreement provided for ;.>
the establishment of the Palmach, headquarters asked the Haganah
Jewish assault troops, as partisan
to prepare detailed plans for the
units whose duties, objectives and
strictly limited and defined by the immediate defense of Jwish and
organizational structure were Arab districts alike. Facing a
British military authorities. Spec- shortage of arms, the British mill-
ial training centers were estab- •ary leaders asked the Haganah
lished, one of them at Yagur, to arm their people from their
which recently was raided by own stores, which now are being
British troops in Palestine who sought by British troops.
unearthed a quantity of arms
A special force of German-
there.
speaking Tews was also set up to
The existence of the agree- infiltrate - and operate behind
silent was kept a "top military enemy lines. One such unit was
secret" and even local police of- named for Peter Haas, a Jewish
ficials were not informed of it. commando leader who fell during
The British provided experts to an attack upon a German camp
train the Haganah and the Pal- in Cyrenaica. Jewish refugees,
mach. Later they formed special some of who are among those now
Jewish radio squads as well as departed to Syprus, then reported
commando groups -throughout the movement and disposition of
Palestine and Syria to maintain enemy forces all over Europe, the
contact among the various untis article discloses.
of the British forces in the Middle
East.
5 Groups of War Waifs
British Trained Jewish Commando Are Coming to the U. S.
Units and Haganah
A commando unit for the Balkan
NEW YORK.
Several score
countries later was added to the refugee children, some of whom
Palmach. Detailed plans and maps survived Nazi death camps while
for every event—if Rommel's army others were hidden by the Eur-
should penetrate Palestine—were opean "underground" during the
worked out jointly by the British war, will reach New York City
military headquarters and the during September en route to
Palmach. Several weeks before new homes in America, it was
Gen. Montgomery's attack at El disclosed by United Service for
Alamein, the commander of the New Americans, 105 Nassau St.
British commando troops partici-
A group of 41, aboard the S. S.
pated in a Palmach parade and
Marine Perch, arrived Aug. 30
addressed the unit.
with repatriated Americans and
The Solel-Boneh, Jewish build- survivors of Nazi persecution im-
ing cooperative, under the super- migrating under the Truman di-
vision of David Hacohen, who is rective.
now held in the Latrun detention
Another contingent of 10
camp, constructed secret fort-
youngsters arrived aboard the
resses. Hasohen's home in Haifa
S. S. Athos.
served as a liason point for inter-
Three. more groups of children
military headquarters when British
are expected in September under
troops were operating against the
sponsorship of the U. S. Commit-
Vichy French administration in
tee. All will be cared for on arri-
Syria.
val in the European Jewish Chil-
Asked Haganah to Arm People
dren's Aid Shelter.
from Own Eltores
One of the details of the general
plan was that Haifa was to be-
For Consultation
come ,L second Tobruk and that
on personal or family,
Jewish commandos were to defend
problems—Call
the city to the last. When news
arrived that Rommel was re: ?dy-
ANNA OXENHANDLER
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Friday, Sagami:4r 6, 1146

A Cry Is Heard Across the Sea

By DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM
"Such as dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound
in afflictions and iron."—(Psalms 107:10),
A cry is heard across the sea!
JERUSALEM (JTA' —Atrans-
From the miasma-laden camps of the Sudan,
port of 500 German war prisoners
And the stinging heat of Eritrea;
has arrived in Cyprus to supple-
From the rocky shores of Cyprus
ment local labor in building camps
And the dungeons of Bethlehem—
for Jewish immigrants diverted
A cry is heard:
from Palestine. A second • trans-
"Come to our aid, came to our succor!
port of Nazis will arrive within a
week. .
Behold we are • captives,
Captives of Zion;
Members of the students' • or-
ganization of the Hebrew uni-
Forced to languish and to suffer
versity here were called on today
At the behest of our tormentors;
to assist the agricultural settle-
Encaged like wild beasts
ments with their summer-end
We face the shadow of death.
harvest, since many colonists have
Bitterly we cry unto ye:
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been detained by the authorities.
Brothers, sisters, come to our aid!
Most of the students responded
For we are captives,
willingly.
Captives of Zion!"
The Hebrew paper Davar re-
ports that the 400 Jews who op-
posed British troops searching
their quarters in Latrun prison
fought with the soldiers for two
hours, during which the troops
Laundered or dry Cleaned
beat them with police clubs.
CAIRO, (JTA) — The Egyptian
SPECIAL THIS WEEK
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bargo on all Palestinian trade,
C pr.
either export or import. The em-
bargo on "Zionist" goods, which
was first proclaimed in January,
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