The New York Times · 12 May 1947

CP-1947-067

50 Palestine Terrorist Suspects Sent to Kenya to Bar Jailbreak

By Clifton Daniel, Special to The New York Times

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JERUSALEM, May 11—Fifty more suspected terrorists were removed from Palestine today to the Gilgil concentration camp in Kenya Colony, East Africa, where there are already 261 prisoners. It was officially announced that the transfer was being made “in the interest of public security.”

It was apparently intended to forestall another mass escape such as the one that liberated more than 200 prisoners a week ago today from the Acre prison. Taking advantage of the Palestine Government’s amnesty offer, six more Arab prisoners returned to Acre today, leaving 154 Arabs and twenty-nine Jews still at large.

No Jewish prisoners have surrendered or been caught since the gun battle that followed the blasting of the prison walls. The Irgun Zvai Leumi, which perpetrated the Acre bombing, has accused “the wild Nazi-British beasts” of maltreating and killing those wounded and captured after the battle.

The men taken to Kenya were previously held in the big detention camp at Latrun between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, where one prisoner tried to escape last week by concealing himself in a meat packing-case. They do not include any well-known figures.

Under the defense regulations the Palestine Government detains suspected terrorists against whom it has insufficient evidence for court trials. Some have been held for years, first in Latrun then in the Sudan and Eritrea and finally in Kenya. After the mass escape from Acre last Sunday the regime in the prison has been considerably tightened and the number of

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