Three Jewish extremists today made an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Alan Major, a Palestine Government liaison officer attached to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine.
Shortly after noon, the three attacked Major when he entered his home here, accompanied by his wife. When he resisted attempts to chloroform him, one of the extremists beat him on the head with a pistol. Meanwhile, his wife’s cries attracted the attention of a mobile police patrol and the terrorists fled in a waiting automobile. Before they escaped they fired several shots, one of which wounded the driver of the patrol car.
British soldiers searching the area where a hand grenade had been tossed into the garden adjoining the Jerusalem military court yesterday, today found a mattress filled with explosives in a locked room of a nearby house. They set off the explosives, wrecking the room.
The Palestine police authorities have informed the family of Alexander Rubovitz, 17-year-old Jewish youth who disappeared over a month ago, that he is dead. Although the family was told of his death, they were not told how he had been killed. The authorities have admitted that Major Roy Farran, who recently escaped from the Allenby detention camp, is wanted in connection with the youth’s murder.
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