Evening star., 1946-08-12
Two More Ships
And 1900 Jews
Arrive al Hdifd
Attempted Landing
By Force Hinted
As Crisis Grows
BY the Associoted Press

JERUSALEM, Aug. 1.-TWO
more immigrant ships crowded
with Jewish refugees anchored
Just outside Haifa Harbor today
adding an explosive pressure to
the Palestine situation, already
tense with reports of pending
British blockade.
Arrival of the two ships brought
to 5000, by Jewish estimate, the
number of refugees aboard ship at
Haifa or en- route who may not
be allowed to land because they are
without immigration certificates.
Many Jews have predicted blood
shed If the immigrants are not per-
mitteo ashore, and there have been
hints at direct action" to bring
them there.
The Jewish underground radio
broadcast that British military &C
ton against us is pending" and
warned Jews to stock up on food
because long curfews are before u.s. =
Underground Declared Ready.
Declaring it had learned of Brit
ish plans to arrest all Jewish resist
ance leaders still free, the radio
said Haganah, underground organi-
zation, planned to resist with all
its strength any blockade designed
to halt immigration.
Jewish circles said they believed
the British intended to load the
newcomers on two British troop
transports, standing by in the bar
ricaded and heavily guarded harbor
and take them away, possibly to a
prepared detention camp on the
island of Cyprus in the Eastern
Mediterranean.
One of the troop ships, said a
Jewish agency spokesman, arrived
yesterday with the captains quar-
ters enclosed in barbed wire. indi-
eating the officers were prepared
to fence themselves in event of
emergency.
London dispatches said Brit
ain is expected to announce to-
morrow its immediate Palestine
program. a program which gov
ernment informants already have
said will include an ironclad sea
blockade to malt the flow of un-
authorized immigration, and land
operations to halt at its source
in the displaced persons camps
of Europe the tide of Jews seek
ing home In the Holy Land
Stern Gang Trial Recessed.
Other developments in tense Pal
estine included - recess until to-
morrow in the trial by military
court of % young Jewish men and
women members of the Stern
gang, underground organization, on
charges of attacking the Haifa rail-
way shops on June II.
The accused sang in Hebrew for
10 minutes when the trial opened
this morning behind a heavy guard
Of British and Arab legion troops.
Shlomo Eisenberg, general secre-
tary of the Jewish Agency Executive.
announced he had asked Jerusalem S
postmaster general to investigate al
legged tampering with agency mail
Declaring many letters to the agency
staff had been torn open in the
past two weeks, he said he sus-
pected secret unofficial censorship.
The newest ship arrivals were
identified as the Yagur. carrying TOO
refugees, and the Henrietta Sold
a one-masted sailing craft loaded
down with 500 passengers-half of
them children and 80 of these babies
in arms.
SZold Is T0wed In.
The Sold, named for the Ameri-
can Jewish woman who devoted her
life to aiding child immigrants in
the United States. was towed the
last few miles of the journey by a
police launch. her engine having
broken down at sea.
The Yagur, named for the Jewish
settlement of Mesheq Yagur near
Haifa. was manned by a Turkish
crew, which was arrested by the
British Navy and taken ashore. The
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