[On May 3 the TelAviv • branch of…]
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On May 3 the TelAviv • branch of the Workers League sent the following telegramme to the British Embassy in Tel-Aviv:
"To: Ambassador, British Embassy Rehoy Hayarkon 192, Tel-Aviv.
British government bears full responsibility for impending death of Irish republican prisoner Bobby Sands MP. Fighter agaınsi British colonial rule is nO common criminal. We demand political status now. Release political prisoners: Withdraw British troops from Northern Ireland.
Workers League, BOx 36231, Tel-Aviv".
We know that the British Ambassador received Our telegramme and that he was "highly disturbed" by it. This is the story:
The next evening, Monday the 3rd, police came to the flat of one of our comrades under whose name the Workers' League Post Office Box is registered.
Finding him not at home. they returned the next morning, and then again in the evening. They arrived, with lights flashing as he was leaving home, and asked him to accompany them to the local police station.
He went along. At the station, the constable said that our comrade is not under arrest, but that an internal police memo linke his name to a threatening' telegramme that had been received at the British Embassy, and that he should explain.
Our comrade declined to give any "explanations" until he could consult a lawyer. consulted erplexed sergeant a high-ranking officer over the telephone, and this officer asked to speak to our comrade.
This officer recounted that the British Ambassador had received our telegramme and that he was "very dis-