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TERRORISTS
EXECUTED
Reprisal Fears in
Palestine
JERUSALEM, Apl. 16. (A.A.P.) . . :
The Jewish terrorist Dot
Gruner was hanged to-day at
Acre prison' 'together with: three
other Jewish terrorists — Morde-.
cat Alkoshi,; Eliezer. Kashanl and
David Rosenbaum. They had
been sentenced for .carrying avmi >
and whips on the night of De
cember 20, ; when. Major Brett ants;
three British =' N-.C.O.'s were :
flogged. . '
i The bodies of the four men
are reported to have been taker
to' -Roshplnah, - where, at their ,i>.
request,'' they , will be bujued. neaF , .
:'tffp'SveTof-Sholomb Ben Vousei, \
who was hanged in 1937, and was
the first' to be executed In Pales
tine as 'a result of a British mili
tary court sentence.
Security Steps
Coinciding with the executions, .
Palestine's biggest security mea/
sures.;- began this morning with
house, curfews m the Jewish areal
of Haira, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and
Petach Tikvah.
The security measures put aboul
400,000 Jews unoer house arrest
Armored cars equipped with loud
speakers awoke Jews to announcf
the curfew . A road curfew is a 1st
operating. .
Soon after the executions pos
ters appeared in Tel Aviv with .
the wording:- "A life for a life,
aii eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth." .
Soldiers removed the posters. .
The Irfun Secret Radio said
that ten senior British officers
would lie hanged in the streets
for each "martyr" hanged.
British civilians living outsidi
Jerusalem's security zone havi
-been advised to move into thi
Safety areas, as the authorities
openly fear retaliation by thi
Trgun Zvai Leumi.
JComli Discovery
— Meanwhile in London a hand
made bomb has been found in
the Hover Mouse part of the
Colonial Office in Whitehall.
Police removed Ihe bomb, which
Home Office experts are exam
ining.
The fuse was apparently Ut
but went out.
Dover Hous'e is . described a
the Economic Relations Divisiol
of the Colonial Office whicl
deals with travelling facilitia
and trade in Palestine.
Other Government department
have been warned to search offlcel
and watch carefully all visitors.
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