Jerusalem 1940s

Mr. L. C. Pinkerton, United States Ambassador in the Levant States, has arrived in Jerusalem.

Severe fighting flared up during the weekend on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, where positions and strongholds changed hands several times within short periods.

An appeal has been lodged to-day before the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem against the conviction and sentences imposed by the Jerusalem district court on Mr. Frederick William Sylvester.

United Nations truce observers have been confined to their quarters because of threats made by a newly formed Jewish terrorist organization called the “Fatherland Front.”

Relating [to] the interrogation of officials

They executed Mrs. Rosa Beiser Neekantor, who “admitted having been a British intelligence agent and worked for British CID even after May 15, when the British Mandate terminated”.

The Israeli Attorney-General to-day instructed the Jerusalem District Attorney to drop the charge against Mr. F. W. Sylvester, of conspiracy to blow up Ben Yehuda Street on February 22.

The former Government House in Jerusalem was evacuated yesterday by the International Red Cross delegates and taken over by the United Nations truce observers.

A Jewish food convoy on its way from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem under United Nations truce observers’ auspices was attacked at 1 p.m. to-day near Latrun, on the main highway, by armed Arabs described by the Arab Legion as “irregulars.”