Evening star., 1946-08-13
British Fire Into Jewish Mob
Defying Curfew in Hoifo Riot
Against Deportation of 1000
Girl Killed, Several
Injured; Two Ships
Leove for Cyprus
ey the Assoeioted Press

HAIFA, Palestine. Aug. 13.-
British troops fired Tommy guns
and rifles today into crowd
OF rioting Jews who were trying
to storm through tanks, trucks
and soldiers in protest against
the deportation to Cyprus of
1000 illegal Jewish immigrants.
A girl was killed. Several police
men and troops were injured by
stones, bottles and other missiles
which the Jews hurled soon after
the outlawed Hagana radio exhorted
them to storm the streets"
A moving tank injured one per-
son in dispensing a crowd gathered
in the Hadar Hacarmel quarter OF
this northern Palestinian port.
Two troopShips sailed with the
thousand illegal immigrants dur
ing the morning, but another ship
the sloop Fenice-bearing $50 Jewish
immigrants without landing GER
tifiicates arrived and was placed
under watch outside the harbor.
An unconfrmed report said yet
another illegal ship. the Venezia
which was spotted yesterday, had
arrived off Haifa with 900 more
illegal immigrants.
Violated Curfew.
The young Jews violated a cur
few TO demonstrate against the de-
oortations However the rioting
ahated and the curfew was lifted
this afternoon Police reported the
city was quiet at pm. as British
soldiers began Withdrawing.
The Hagana radio had called On
residents of Haifa to break the cur
few. which the British imposed
while the Jews were being loaded
for deportation.
Even the Arab quarters in Haifa
Joined in defiance of the curfew
The Arabs. however. caused little dis
turbance and ventured only outside
their own homes.
Several truckloads of youthful
men and women were taken to police
detention camps in Haifa for break
ii:g the curfew
AS noon approached police and
helmeted soldiers strung barbed-
wire barricades at virtually every
street intersection and appeared to
have restored a measure of order.
In other parts of Haifa feeling
was running high. but apparently
there was no concerted move to join
the rioters in the lower part of the
city.
1000 Confined in HarbOr.
The arrival of the additional i'm
migrants brought to more than
1000 the number of unscheduled
Jewish wanderers confined in the
Hsifa Harbor. even with the de-
portation of the 1000. Only 1900
Jews are permitted to enter Pales-
tine per month under current
British rules
The Fenice several weeks ago
brought another cargo of Jews from
La Spezia in Italy. The sloop had
been allowed to depart from Haifa
because its passengers received land
ing certificates and thus were not il
legal.
The Fenice apparently tried to
land its passengers on the beach but
was intercepted by police gunboat.
1t refused an order to heave to and
the gunboat fired across its bow. The
sloop was anchored outside the har-
Dor and its passengers, under the
new British policy, probably will be
deported.
Stream Toward Docks.
Jewish residents streamed down
hillside streets toward the docks
few minutes after the last refugees
we're loaded aboard the two troop
ships.
The lst Infantry Division, called
into action, quickly threw a Gordon
around the dock area, but only after
nearly 1000 persons had gone down
Kings Way which parallels the
quays.
The curfew breakers milled around
the entrances to the docks.
The deporteeS. first to be shipped
to Cyprus under stringent new Brit
ish regulations designed to halt il
legal immigration to Palestine, were
loaded aboard the transports Empire
Rival and Empire Heywood-for-
merly used to take British soldiers
home on leave TO England. British
officers said a search of the refugees
had revealed a few sticks of gelignite
fan explosive) on their persons, but
that no other arms had been found
l.400 Will Remain.
Preparations went forward for the
disembarking of approximately L.
400 illegal immigrants still aboard
the refugee ships Hagana and Jew
ish Warrior, which have been an
chored at Haifa since last week
They will not be deported, it was
explained. since the British have
decided that only illegal immigrants
arriving after August II are subject
to deportation.
The immigrants still detained
aboard ship here will be taken to
the Athlit clearance camp. where
they will be put through quarantine
granted illegal immigrant papers
enabling them to be absorbed into
the Jewish community.
Those aboard today's fire deporta-
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