The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-13

Britons Halt
 Jewish Attack On Port Hoifa
Refugees Herded Into Transports For Cyprus Trip

bIlClSu 1OICcS, llS SIlIlllS WiCll smoke bombs against hysteri- cal Jews armed with bottles, cans and sticks, today hegded hundreds of Jewish refugees into barbwire pens on trans port ships for shipment to de- tention camps in Cyprus.
 Casualties were numerous. One woman was killed and 10 men severely wounded as crowds from the Jewish sub- urb of Hadar Hacarmel, an- swering the summons of the under ground radio, Voice of Israel, tried to force their way into the port area to save the Jewish refugees from deportation.
 Thousands of Jews, ordered con- fined to their homes under the strictest curfew, answered the ral- lying call of the clandestine radio which instructed them to "get out of your houses and into the streets. |"
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 They swarmed down toward the harbor from their village half way up Mount Carmel which overlooks Port Haifa.
 As they attempted to approach the port, they met strong British military cordon. The British ordered the Jews to turn back. When the crowd refused the troops opened fire, killing one woman and wound- ing 10 men.
 The British military immediately declared the port region "a closed area" No one was allowed either to enter or leave.
 The outbreak came as two Brit ish troop transports with barbWire cages on deck noisted anchor and prepared to sail for Cyprus with the hundreds of Jews who had been removed from their squalid refugee ships in hand-to-hand pitched bat ties.
 Scores Injured
 Hundreds of Jews fought back with their fists against troops and marines who ordered them to the transports. Scores suffered minor injuries.
 The bitterest battle was fought over the little Henrietta Szold aboard which several hundred Jews had made their way to Palestine.
 A boarding party of marines was met by a barrage of bottles, cans and sticks. The marines replied of infantrymen the Jews of the Henrietta Szold were removed. 9
 Young Jews shouting "Fascists" and "Nazis" kicked, punched bit and hurled bottles at the soldiers in the pre-dawn harbor battle.
 Some marines were wounded by pieces of wood and bottles thrown in their faces.
 Clash With Demonstrators
 Ashore police armed with slaves clashed with Jewish demonstrators near the port and the central po- lice station. Two persons were wounded and two arrested.
 The first troopship sailed on the l6-hour trip to Cyprus as soon as its load of 800 Jewish men and women were herded aboard into harbed wire cages in the hold.
 Five hundred Jews fought @gainst infantrymen who transferred them at A. M. from their old ship Yagour to the troopship Empire Rival in the start of operation Cyprus ordered by the British gov erment to halt illegal immigration.
 A similar struggle occurred when Marines boarded the Henrietta Szold to transfer that ships load of ref ugees. The resistance was so sharp that marines had to call for Army aid.
 Both the Yagour and Henrietta Szold were floating sewers. The ragged, dirty refugees had lived aboard them 20 days Jewish sources said the ships were so packed that the passengers had no space to lie down at night. They were jammed on decks with hardly enough room to move during the sea crossing from Italy. Sanitary conditions were almost neglible.
 with a shower of smoke bombs. The Jews tossed the bombs back at the marines. Finally with the aid