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JEWISH PLOT TO
RAID LONDON
Six Aerial Bombs
Found In Paris
Australian Associated Press-
LONDON, September 7.
The Paris police today arrested a number of per-
sons after discovering six home-made aerial
bombs with which, it is suggested, the Stern
Gang intended to bomb London in reprisal for
the transport of Jewish migrants to Hamburg.
Rabbi Baruch Korff, chairman of the American Political
Action Committee for a Free Palestine, was also
arrested near Paris today, together with two others,
when about to board an aircraft carrying a suitcase
full of pamphlets. Police say that Korff and his
companions had chartered the aircraft, presumably
in order to make a leaflet raid on London.
quotes an eyewitness at the airport
as saying that the three Jews were
about to board a chartered aircraft
when a plainclothes policeman
fired a pistol and several armed
detectives, disguised as mechanics,
arrested the Jews.
Eire Activities
Korff yesterday told the Paris
correspondent of the British United
Press that, the Stern Gang had
newly formed in Eire and he pre
sumed that it was responsible for
the bomb sent in a parcel from
Eire which injured two sorters last
Wednesday in a post office at West
minster.
Korff threatened Britain with
more attacks of this kind if the
Jews were landed at Hamburg.
Disembarkation from the three
migrant ships, Runnymede Park,
Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival,
which arrived off Hamburg from
Cuxhaven today, has been delayed
by fog and will not begin until to
morrow. The Ocean Vigour drew
alongside the Hamburg quay this
afternoon in the presence of a
handful of people.
Mr. H. V. Berry, Hamburg re
gional commissioner, said that if
the emigrants did not leave the
ships voluntarily, he would order
the army to disembark them.
Lt-Col. Gregson, commanding es
corting troops on the three ships,
went ashore immediately the ships
anchored off Cuxhaven. He re
ported to the authorities at Ham
burg that the Jews were willing to
land quietly if they did not "lose
face" through dockside publicity.
British security officers boarded
the ships off Cuxhaven and sorted
out inciters and possible' terror
ists. The press will be barred from
the dock until two hours after the
landing. About 180 newspapermen
and photographers have protested
against the ban.
Traffic In Children
A Foreign Office spokesman said
yesterday that "strikingly inhuman
organisations" were conducting il
legal traffic in Jewish children be
tween Europe and Palestine.
The spokesman added, "The
main organisation, known as Has
homer Hatzair, deports children
from Hungary to Germany where
they wait, sometimes for a year, be
fore being put aboard a ship bound
for Palestine.
"The traffic was discovered when
13 parents appealed to the British
Political Representative at Buda
pest to secure the repatriation of
13 children whom they believed
Jewish organisations had shipped
to Palestine aboard the illegal im
migrant ship President Warfield.
Hashomer Hatzair has an ad
dress in Budapest and the parents'
evidence showed that a systematic
breaking-up of families has been
carried out for two years.
A spokesman for Hashomer Hat
zair. which is a Left Wing Social-
ist group within the Zionist organi
sation. denied the allegations.
Ii is not known whether
Fvorff's arrest was connected
with Ilie discovery of the aerial
bombs which were made from
ifire extinguishers about 20
I inches long. They had fins and
! fuses.
| The pamphlets declared: This
I ?s a warning that we will carry
j the war to the very heart of the
I Empire. We are prepared to
I nght a war of liberation now to
| avoid enslavement tomorrow."
I Watch On Stern Gang
A spokesman of the French
'Ministry of the Interior after an
nouncing the discovery of the plot
to bomb London, said that the
'police had been watching members
.of t?>e Stern Gang for several weeks
and checking reports that terrorists
were going to conduct an air ex
pedition over London in privately
owned aircraft
The spokesman added that Korff
is an American citizen born in
j?ussia. The others arrested were
|the pilot, Reginald Gilbert, who
:is.an American citizen born at
Birmingham, England, and Mrs.
! Judith Rosenberger, of Hungarian
origin, whose present nationality
is unknown. She is KorfTs secre
tary.
i The police discovered in the car
in which the arrested persons ar
rived at the airport, two suitcases
containing 10,000 pamphlets
printed in English anDarentlv by a
French printer. "
No bombs were found on the
plane which was waiting for Korff.
The police expected to make other
arrests.
A search of the living quarters
of those arrested had led to rapid
progress in the investigations, the
spokesman added. The police
found documents whieii provided
valuable clues. ?
Korff had approached the acting
Foreign Minister (M. le Tourneau)
several days ajstf: with a plan to use
a French airport as a base for para
chuting Jews into Palestine. M.
le Tourneau had refused the re
quest.
According to the Paris correspon
dent of the Associated Press of
Great Britain, the Versailles police
said that leaflets which Korff was
carrying were to be dropped over
the refugee ships at Hamburg.
The Paris edition of the New
York "Herald Tribune" said tliat
leaflets were to be dropped on
London last ni"ht and bombs were
to be dropped on London tonight.
Reuters Paris correspondent
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