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PALESTINE - BRITISH MANDATE AND INSURGENCY Archive relating to Jewish and Arab resistance to British Mandatory Rule in Palestine, c.1938-1946
1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
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PALESTINE - BRITISH MANDATE AND INSURGENCY
Archive relating to Jewish and Arab resistance to British Mandatory Rule in Palestine, c.1938-1946, including a rare poster, annotated map and documentary photographs, compiled by a member of the British Police or Military, comprising:
[JEWISH TERRORIST ACTIVITIES]. "Palestine North Sheet... Gridded with Palestine Transverse Mercator Military Grid", large colour-printed map of Palestine, printed "Restricted", overlayed with 17 typed labels noting "Terrorist activities and illegal immigration between October 1945 and March 1946", annotated in red ink with thirteen areas of conflict (from Nahiriya and Haifa in the north, to Aqir, Qastina and Jerusalem in the south) identified with red circles, fold folds, 855 x 620mm., [c.1946]
SCOTT (ROBERT, Acting Chief Secretary) Proclamation by the Officer Administrating the Government. For the public good and avoidance of unnecessary suffering, of all people in Palestine should carefully note the following solemn WARNING [against unlawful possession of "firearms, bombs, grenades... the possession of such articles is punishable with imprisonment for LIFE... or using them is punishable with DEATH...", incitements to violence, armed resistance, etc.], LARGE POSTER, royal coat-of-arms top centre, text in three columns printed in Hebrew, English and Arabic, old fold creases, 635 x 704mm., Jerusalem, 15 November 1945
[IRGUN - BROADSIDE]. "Warning! 1. The Government of oppression should WITHOUT ANY DELAY evacuate children, women, civilian persons... throughout the country. 2. The civilian population, Hebrews, Arabs and others are asked... to abstain... from visiting or nearing Government offices... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!", broadside on paper, headed with emblem (hand-held rifle over map of "Israel"), text in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, 300 x 130mm., [15 May 1945]
[PHOTOGRAPHY - ARAB AND JEWISH UNREST AND BRITISH MILITARY]. A collection of 48 photographs including views of street unrest ?in Haifa (3), body searches (3), derailed train, dead insurgents (7), "a public execution, Jerusalem", British armoured cars and buildings, a military funeral (c.7), Arab troops, prisoners, etc.; together with 37 photographs of views of Palestine, gelatin silver, a few captioned on the verso in a later hand, one in a contemporary hand ("Tulkarm M.P.S.7... whilst procuring rifles. Oct. 1941"), several of the views stamped "Copyright The Matson Photo Service..."), typically 75 x 95mm., [c.1938-1941],
[JEWISH TERRORIST ACTIVITIES]. "Palestine North Sheet... Gridded with Palestine Transverse Mercator Military Grid", large colour-printed map of Palestine, printed "Restricted", overlayed with 17 typed labels noting "Terrorist activities and illegal immigration between October 1945 and March 1946", annotated in red ink with thirteen areas of conflict (from Nahiriya and Haifa in the north, to Aqir, Qastina and Jerusalem in the south) identified with red circles, fold folds, 855 x 620mm., [c.1946]
SCOTT (ROBERT, Acting Chief Secretary) Proclamation by the Officer Administrating the Government. For the public good and avoidance of unnecessary suffering, of all people in Palestine should carefully note the following solemn WARNING [against unlawful possession of "firearms, bombs, grenades... the possession of such articles is punishable with imprisonment for LIFE... or using them is punishable with DEATH...", incitements to violence, armed resistance, etc.], LARGE POSTER, royal coat-of-arms top centre, text in three columns printed in Hebrew, English and Arabic, old fold creases, 635 x 704mm., Jerusalem, 15 November 1945
[IRGUN - BROADSIDE]. "Warning! 1. The Government of oppression should WITHOUT ANY DELAY evacuate children, women, civilian persons... throughout the country. 2. The civilian population, Hebrews, Arabs and others are asked... to abstain... from visiting or nearing Government offices... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!", broadside on paper, headed with emblem (hand-held rifle over map of "Israel"), text in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, 300 x 130mm., [15 May 1945]
[PHOTOGRAPHY - ARAB AND JEWISH UNREST AND BRITISH MILITARY]. A collection of 48 photographs including views of street unrest ?in Haifa (3), body searches (3), derailed train, dead insurgents (7), "a public execution, Jerusalem", British armoured cars and buildings, a military funeral (c.7), Arab troops, prisoners, etc.; together with 37 photographs of views of Palestine, gelatin silver, a few captioned on the verso in a later hand, one in a contemporary hand ("Tulkarm M.P.S.7... whilst procuring rifles. Oct. 1941"), several of the views stamped "Copyright The Matson Photo Service..."), typically 75 x 95mm., [c.1938-1941],
Footnotes
"HAIFA. 20 FEB 4. SECOND ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP RADAR...19 JAN 46. ATTEMPT BY STERN GANG TO FREE IMPRISONED TERRORIST AT THE CENTRAL PRISON" - an archive relating to both Jewish and Arabic uprisings against the governing British Mandate, including a rare poster issued by the British stating that the death penalty would be imposed on "all people in Palestine" found carrying or using firearms, a "Warning!" to "the civilian population, Hebrews, Arabs and others... from visiting or nearing Government offices..." issued by the Jewish group Irgun, a map of Palestine marked "restricted" and annotated by the British with thirty incidents of Jewish resistance (attacking police, RAF and coast stations, illegal immigration, sabotage of railways, etc), and a group of photographs illustrating British military activities, atrocities, funerals, Arab soldiers, etc.
The archive comes with four pictorial postcards written by "Ernest" to his aunt near Bristol, postmarked Haifa or Jerusalem, 1938-1939, in one mentioning "... am still busy working for the military...".