Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-17
BarricadedJ Jews
In Haifa Protest
INCORPORATION
British Preparing to
Speed Two Ships to
Cyprus With $500
BY the Associated Press

HAIFA, Palestine, Aug. IA
speaker who could not been seen
called on the Jews of Haifa today
to 'be prepared for everything
and stand by during the next
few hours" as the British pre-
pared to speed two troopships to
Cyprus with 1900 more illegal
immigrants.
The unseen speaker, his voice
heard over an amplifier, addressed
a meeting held behind barbed wire
barbados which the Jews had
erected to prevent police or mill
tary interference. The meeting was
called in protest against additional
shipments to Cyprus.
The Immigrants late today still
were on the ships Twenty-three and
Fenice, which carried them from
Europe. Two destroyers and four
police gunboats lowered nearby. A
short distance away were the Brit
1sh troopships. Empire Rival and
Empire Haywood, which carried
more than 1000 Jews to Cyprus
Tuesday.
Denies Navy Men Pelted.
Reports spread through Jewish
quarters that the British navy men
had tried to load the additional
immigrants aboard the troopships
last night and again this morning,
but that the refugees had pelted
them with bottles and tins and re-
fused to board the ships.
A British naval officer denied
this, observing:
Does this infer that few hum
dred tired people can stand off the
British navy? What happened last
night was routine delivery of food
to those people by the army and
navy"
He added he expected the refugees
would be loaded on the troopships
tonight.
In Jerusalem this afternoon the
postoffce received another warning
that it would be bombed. The build
ing was evacuated and searched,
but nothing was found. Similar
warnings have been delivered sew
eral times.
Jewish guards diverted all civilian
traffic from the scene of the protest
meeting. No military or police
forces approached the crowd.
Radio Issues Summons.
The gathering followed a call
broadcast at 15-minute intervals
during the morning by the clandes-
tine Jewish radio station, THE
Voice of Israel" Loudspeakers
placed in many windows blared
forth the radio announcements.
The unseen speakers voice issued
from an amplifier. He protested
against the deportation, which he
said was being carried out by the
British with the help of a whole
army using full equipment, tanks
and five battlesnips.
The warning to "be prepared"
issued from the amplif1er after the
demonstrators had sung the Jewish
anthem of nationalism at the close
of the meeting.
Throughout the morning, THE
Voice of Israeli station had broad
cast the appeal to Jews in the
Haifa area to leave your homes
and join the demonstration in the
center of town"
The announcer said Jewish refu-
gees from the immigrant ships
Twenty-three and Fenice ARE be-
ing deported right now"
Ring of Steel Around Harbor.
Meanwhile, a ring of steel was
maintained around the harbor, as
it has been since the first deporta-
ton of refugees Tuesday.
Authorities expressed fear of seri-
GUS uprisings in the already tense
city as word spread that the two
British vessels were preparing to
deport the immigrants.
Tension was reported running
high in Haifa, although no curfew
has been clamped on the town yet
High police officials, including the
(See PALESTINE, Page A-2.)