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Refineries installation at Haifa. Thenceforth the Group, jointly with the Irgun or alone, has perpetrated a series of outrages including the assassination of several police officers and civilians, attacks on Police and other Government buildings, military camps and establishments, sabotage of the mil way system and oil installations and numerous incidents of mine laying on the highways resulting in damage to military and police vehicles and many casualties. In a pamphlet dated 16th March, 1947, the Stern Group claimed responsibility for the explosion at the Colonial Office in London on the 7th March.

In November, 1945, shortly after the Stern Group and N.M.O. began cooperating with the Hagana , a series of broadcasts by the Group took place as the "Voice of the Jewish Underground". These transmissions continued until the 18th February, 1946, when the transmitter and some arms were seized by the Police in Tel Aviv during a broadcast. Several arrests were made and a woman announcer was subsequently sentenced by military court to seven years imprisonment. In June, 1946, pamphlets appeared announcing the resumption of broadcasts from this station but only four were reported, the last being recorded on the 4th August, 1946.

Recent information indicates that the Group numbers about 1,000, having been reinforced by new immigrants and by dissentients from the other associations.

(p. 606) (§ 57)

No assessment of the quantity of arms held by the Group can be given but it is thought that it is large enough to be a real danger to security.

The following table shows the number of persons killed, wounded and subjected to physical violence by Jewish terrorists in the period 1st August, 1945 to 31st March, 1947.

PERSONS KILLED, WOUNDED AND .ASSAULTED BY JEWISH Terrorists, 1sT AUGUST, 1945 '1'0 31sT MARCH, 1947.

Killed | wounded | Assaulted

Civilians 31 390 I 18
Military G8 237
Police 43 163 1
TOTAL 142


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