Explosions Rock Haifa As Extrimists Cut Pipeline; Fire Rages for Two Hours

Heavy clouds of black smoke enveloped Haifa this morning as extremists struck at the Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipelines in the port area of the city. The fires which spread to nearby storage tacks were brought under contral after two hours by police, military and oil company personal.

The attack was carried out by five men who arrived in the oil dock area in a truck. Overpowering two armed quards, they placed several charges of high explosive under the lines. The blasts were heard throughout the city.

Motel Berger, 40, a plainclothes police corporal, today died in a Tel Aviv hospital from injuries suffered when he was severely beaten by a group of men whom police described as Jews. Berger, who received nearly 100 police citations for “devation to duty,” was assigusd to tracking down extremists when he was assaulted. About two years ago he was beatan by members of Haganah when he attempted to interfere with their immigration activities.

CUNNINGHAM FLYING BACK TO PALESTINE; SAID TO HAVE NEW POWERS

(Palestine High Commissioner Sir Alan G. Cunningham and Lt. Gen. Gordon H.A. MacMillan, commander of the British forces in Palestine, today flew back to Palestine after a four-day visit in London. It is reported that they were given extraordis? powers to deal with future outbreaks of violence. The Palestine press has been for bidden to publish the fact that they are returning and the censor eliminsted all references to the fact that they were reported to have discussed security matter with high Cabinet officials during their stay in London.)

It was learned today that the Tel Aviv municipality’s decision to appeal for a commutation of Dov Gruner’s death sentence followed a study of the Privy Council’s ruling rejecting the appeal filed by his uncle. Replying to the defense argument that in a similar case the appellate court had reviewed a case filed by an interested party rather than the sentenced man, the president of the Council’s judicial committee ## said that the appellant in that case was declared competent because he was a representative of a Jewish community.

A Jerusalem Jewish community delegation called on the commander of the local milirary district urging him to lift the three-week-old ourfew, asserting that it “was a collective punishment which was wreaking economic havoc on the community. The British officer promised to forward the request to higher authorities.

A Sephardic delegation, headed by Chief Rabbi Ben Zion Usiel, visited Robert Nacates, American consul general in Jerusalem, to discuss the most recent “anti-Zionist” campaign launched in the neighboring Arab states. Rabbi Usiel. told Macater that the Jews in the entire Middle East and particularly in Syria and Labanon were in “mortal denger.”