Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-19
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For Kidnap ers
0f5Britons
Jewish Settlements
On lebunese Border
Also Are Searched
BY the Assoeioted Pres,

JERUSALEM, June ia large
force of troops and police began
securing several Jewish settle
mentS along the Lebanese from
tier today, and the army clamped
a strict curfew on Tel Aviv to
aid the search for an armed band
which kidnapped five British Off
GERS.
Palestine police late today said an
other British officer was missing,
possibly bringing to six the number
of Britons kidnapped in a wave of
disorder sweeping the country
The officer, Maj. H. B. Chadwick,
failed to appear at a general COM
mand meeting at the King David
Hotel late yesterday, the police an
nouncement said.
Police said Maj. Chadwick and the
other British officers may be held as
hostages by Irgun zvai Leumi, an
outlawed resistance organiza ton re-
ported attempting to enforce a de-
mand for communal ton of death
sentences against two of their Jewish
comrades.
The Tel Aviv municipal council
passed resolution at an emergency
meeting calling on the kidnapers to
release the British captives immedi-
ately. Mayor Israel Rokeach as
serted he did not believe the Off
GERS were in the city.
Road Blocks Erected.
The British 9th Airborne Division
erected road blocks at every street
corner in Tel Aviv and esta blished
posts to check identities every 200 or
300 yards.
Residents of the Jewish settle |
ment near Acre resisted a military
search of the area yesterday, block
ing gates to the town with an iron
watertank and releasing a hive of
bees, an army spokesman said.
Entering the area after removing
the blocks, the soldiers searched the
town, OBTAINING several persons for
questioning and confscated sig
mailing apparatus.
The border search, IS miles from
Tel Aviv, was not Immediately eX-
planned. All roads through the
upper Galilee section of Palestine
in the north were blocked. Tele-
phone lines were cut to prevent
alarms being spread to other settle
ments.
British engineers threw a Bailey
Bridge across the Jordan between
Palestine and Syria, replacing the
dynamited bridge of the Daughters
of Jacob which raiders destroyed
Sunday.
In three days. 18 have been killed
and scores injured in terrorism.
Jews Premises Out of Bounds.
Military authorities proclaimed all
Jewish premises in Palestine out
OF bounds to British troops until
the kidnapped officers are freed. The
prohibition applied to bars. theaters,
hotels and restaurants.
Reports from Tel Aviv said the
streets were deserted except for
patrolling Tommies Buildings were
shattered. Only government en-
ployes, doctors and nurses were al
Logged to leave their residences after
5 am. when the curfeW was
clamped on.
In the border operations, troops
cordoned off two Jewish settlements.
Twehai and Kargiladi.
(Spokesmen for the Arab office
In London said the latest out
break of terrorism by Zionist
gangs in Palestine is a strange
commentary on Jewish claims to
turn the country into Jewish
national state. These outbreaks
of criminal violence only serve
to emphasize the justice of the
Arab cause
cAlthough one accepts that
these periodic outrages are COM
mitted by extremist elements,
failure by the Jewish agency to
suppress the activities of such
illegal organizations is scarcely
likely to commend the Zionist
cause to statesmen now con-
cerned with the future of Pales-
tine
Doubts Bevin Statement.
The outburst of violence was be-
lieved in some quarters here to be
linked both to British Foreign Sec
rotary Ernest Bevin's Palestine pro-
nouncement at Bournemouth last
week and the mysterious flight from
exiee in France of the Grand Multi,
Hal Amin Ell Husseini, spiritual
leader of Palestine's Moslems.
Speaking in Petah Tiqvah near
Tel Aviv, DR.. Chain Weizmann,
president of the World Zionist Or
ganization, said last night that he
doubted Mr.. Bevin's statement that
the proposed admission to Palestine
of 100000 homeless European Jews
would require dispatch of an addi-
tional British army division to the
Holy Land.