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PALESTINE POLICE FORCE, LEHI AND JEWISH INSURGENCY - "WANTED" POSTERS Two scarce Palestine Police Force broadside posters offering rewards for the capture of Abraham Stern, founder of the "Stern Gang", 5 May 1942 (2)
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PALESTINE POLICE FORCE, LEHI AND JEWISH INSURGENCY - "WANTED" POSTERS
"The Palestine Police Force. Rewards. A reward of £P.2,000 (Two Thousand Pounds) will be paid by the Government of Palestine for information leading directly to the apprehension and conviction of persons responsible for the explosion... at 8, Yael Street, Tel-Aviv... the 20th day of January, 1942 [which resulted in the deaths of two officers]... A further reward of £P.1,000... will be paid for [the apprehension...] of the the leader of the terrorist group responsible for the explosion... Abraham Ben Mordechai Stern...", broadside poster, texts in English, Arabic and Hebrew, photographic head and shoulder portrait of Stern with full description of his appearance ("... Nose: Big. Hair: Black-brushed back. Moustache: Shaven. Build: Thin. Dress: European. Generally well groomed. Speaks Hebrew, Polish, Russian. Stern is of surly demeanour"), old folds, a few small marginal tears not touching text, 510 x 350mm., Jerusalem, issued by A. Saunders, Inspector-General, 21 January 1942
"The Palestine Police Force. Rewards. A reward of £P.1,000 will be paid by the Palestine Government for information which leads directly to the apprehension of any of the persons... given below, and who are members of the organisation responsible for the attempts on the lives of the Inspector General of Police and the Assistant..., in Jerusalem on April 22nd, and the Superintendent, C.I.D., Lydda District in Tel Aviv on May 1st", broadside, texts in English and Hebrew, photographic head and shoulder portrait of the three men with detailed descriptions ("Polish origin, metal-worker by trade", "...carries a brief case and is in the habit of travelling between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv by Egged Bus", "Short sighted, sometimes wears spectacles... Usually wears shirt and shorts and a beret. Palestinian by birth"), old horizontal fold, a few small nicks to lower blank margin, 405 x 290mm., Jerusalem, issued by A. Saunders, Inspector General, 5 May 1942 (2)
Footnotes
TWO RARE "REWARD" POSTERS ISSUED FOR THE ARREST OF ABRAHAM STERN, FOUNDER OF THE ZIONIST PARAMILITARY GROUP LEHI ("THE STERN GANG"), AND HIS ASSOCIATES, following two incidents in Tel Aviv, in which members of the Palestine Police Force were killed or seriously injured, during the campaign by Jewish groups to overturn the British Mandate. The first appeared the day after Nathan Goldman and Solomon Schiff died in an explosion at 8 Yael Street on 20 January 1942. Stern was shot dead on 12 February 1942, some three weeks after the poster was issued.
Provenance: Roy Frederick Read (1910-1984), who served with the Palestine Police Force from 1939-1948; by descent to the vendor.

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