Page Three 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. Store Hours Daily 9:15 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. 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