British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Supplement - Page 84

Unfortunately no indication as to the whereabouts of this store was found. 00ue arrest was made. The occupant of the room was traced several months later and was sentenced by a military court to fifteen years' imprisonment.

(p. 597) (§ 31)

The following table shows the quantity of explosives and incendiary articles seized from Arabs and Jews respectively during 1946 :-

(T. 7)

SEIZURE OF EXPLOSIVES AND INCENDIARY ARTICLES DURING 1946.

Arabs

8 sticks of gelignite 104 kgs. of gunpowder 14. tins of gunpowder 1,924 detonators

119 percussion caps l slab gun cotton

Jew~

122 mortars

I bag anti-personnel bombs I anti-aircraft shell

69 ballistite cartridges

1,200 kgs. gelignite

543 sticks gelignite

6 haversacks gelignite 5 bags explosives

50 kgs. potassium nitrate 1 sack sodium nitrate

4 kgs. gunpowder

2 tins gunpowder

2 kgs. gun cotton

12 bottles incendiary liquid 150 feet fuze

55 coils fuze

1 drum fuze
814 detonators

5 exploding units 128 grenade strikers 153 pressure plungers

3 gun cotton primers.

In addition, a large number of unexploded landmines and explosives charges were removed; 01• disposed of on the spot by Military and Police experts.

(p. 601) (§ 40)

It is clear that the Hagan a, under the assumed designation "Jewish Resistance Movement in Palestine", took part in a series of outrages subsequent to October, 194 5 : an attack on Athlit Clearance Camp and the subsequent ambushing of a police party; widespread sabotage of the railway system; heavy attacks on two coastguard stations and the R.A.F. Radar station at Haifa; attacks on

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