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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 2 t 1947
`Collective Punishment' Threatened in Tel Aviv
Armed Troops to Face Trial 300 Jewish DPs Seized by U. S. Troops
If Caught, Irgun Declares Allegedly Attempting to Leave Germany
On the eve of the opening of the
JERUSALEM, (JTA)
United NationS Assembly on Palestine, the Jews of Palestine
—most of whom expect little from the UN deliberations—
were faced with a threat of collective 43unishrnent if under-
ground activity continues.
- High Commissioner Sir Alan G. Cunningham notified
—
MUNICH, (JTA)—Three hundred displaced Jews who woman who precipitated the riot
were allegedly attempting to cross from Germany into Austria
was being held pending the filing
of specific charges and her com-
panion, Cpl. James Christian,
probably would be court-martial-
ed.
on the first leg of a journey to Palestine were stopped by
American constabulary trooper's at Berchtesgaden, five miles
from the frontier, and. returned to the Puitpold camp.
The group, members of which
are still being questioned by the
Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel - Aviv*
Army, are sticking to their story
the next time a post office ve- 1 tion and to place representatives they lost their way while seeking
hicle is stolen in any part of the of all the labor factions on the a DP center near Berchtesgaden.
executive.
A high military source told the
country, the postal and telephone
JTA it was unlikely that disci-
services in Tel Aviv will be cut DP Representatives Ask UN
plinary action would be taken
off.
To Open Palestine Gates
against the DPs, since they were
Rokach immediately
Mayor
MUNICH, (JTA)—A meeting stopped five miles inside the Ger-
protested "this new form of col-
of 250 delegates and officials of man border and technically had
lective punishment," which makes
the Central Committee of Lib- violated no regulations. They will
Tel- Aviv responsible for crimes
erated Jews, representing 211 probably- be kept at Puitpolci for
which may be committed else-
eAmericana
i
a few- clays and then returned to
the
A
where. (A post office truck was ca mps throug bout
used to smuggle in land mine zo ne, unanimously adopted a the camps from which they came.
olution demanding the UN
which blasted the Sarona police res
spec ial session on Palestine take
Jews Hurt
barracks last Friday).
concrete action to open the Holy 12 Munich
Oppressors of Masses
Land to Jewish immigration. The In Clash With U .S. Troops
MUNICH, (JTA)—Twelve Jews
The statement came on the DPs authorized the Jewish Agen-
heels of a warning by the Irgun cy to act as their representative were hospitalized, several with
radio that in the future British at the General Assembly.
serious injuries, following a clash
troops and police caught carry-
between American military po-
ing arms would be tried by "field 'Rome Paper Says Jews
lice and some 40 members of the
court-martials" from which there Entering by Thouseands
Agudas Israel who were holding
would be no appeal. They would
ROME, (JTA)—The charge that a conference in a local Jewish
be tried as members of an illegal
"hundreds of thousands of Jews" i restaurant. There were 15 rab-
organization in the Jewish home-
are entering Italy enroute to bis in the group.
land or as "looters or oppressors
The melee started when a hys-
of the masses," the broadcast said. I Palestine was made by the Rome
Those convicted would be ex- : newspaper "Momento Sera - in a terical German woman accom-
panied by two military police-
front-page article •
ecuted on the spo .
Cunningham's warning follow-
ed a denial by Jewish Agency!
circles of a report which has
been circulating here that it was!'
drawing up a plan for complete
cooperation with the government
in suppressing terrorism. The I
Agency sources labelled the
rumored plan "purely imagina-
tive."
Government quarters insist the
.
Agency undertook to draft the
plan because it feared the effects
of the reimposition of martial law
on the community. They also
assert the Agency already has
communicated the gist of the pro-
posal to the government, which
agreed not to place Tel Aviv
under "control" following the ex-
plosion at the Sarona barracks.
HUDSON'S
men entered the restaurant. The
woman accused some of the Jews
of beating her, whereupon the
soldiers commenced beating the
DPs. The noise of the clash at-
tracted other military policemen ,
and when several of the Jews
attempted to escape, they were
fired upon. None of the shots
found their mark.
Trample on Bibles
Meanwhile the German woman
beat several of the Jews and
shouted anti-Semitic epithets.
She also trampled several Bibles
and prayer shawls.
When military police officers
arrived they halted the assaults
and ordered the soldiers to leave.
They permitted the Jews who had
been forced to stand against a
wall with their arms in the air
for a considerable time to lower
them and rest.
Brig. Gen. Josiah Dalby. com-
mander of the Munich area, ad-
mitted military police had acted
badly when they assaulted a
meeting of the Agudas Israel.
Gen. Dalby said the German
Rabbi Breaks Leg
Military authorities concede
that Christian and Helga Rietz,
the woman involved, were "under
alcoholic influence when the in-
cident occurred." Gen. Dalby
denied, however, there had been
any excessive mistreatment of the
DPs, asserting an Army physician
who examined them found the
only two with serious injuries
were Rabbi Moshe Blau, of Bad
Reichenhall. and Eliezer Wein-
berger, of the Ulm Camp, whose
legs were broken when they
jumped from a window in the
restaurant.
U. S. Soldier Gets Five Years
For Shooting Italian Jew
ROME (JTA) — Cpl. Manuel
Alonzo was recently sentenced
to five and one-half year's im-
prisonment by a U. S. court
martial for the fatal shooting of
Anselmo Effratti, 25. an Italian
Jew. Effratti was shot last month
during a brawl between Ameri-
can soldiers and Italian civilians.
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It is learned that at last week's
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Meanwhile, the Stern Group,
which admitted responsibility for
the assassination in Haifa of A. E.
Conquest, acting chief of the
Criminal Investigating Depart-
ment in that city, was reported
to be negotiating with an un-
named Arab group for a "united
anti-British front" The Irgun' is
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An Irgun broadcast devoted to
the UN meeting warned that
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from Palestine and an independ-
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A campaign to elect Dr. Chaim*
Weizmann president of the World
Zionist Organization at the May
Meeting of the Zionist Actions
Committee in New York was de-
cided by the central committee of
the left-wing Hashomer Hazair.
The group will seek to form a
united front of all Zionist labor
parties to effect Weiztnann's
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