Ten persons were dead today and many wounded following one of the worst nights of terrorism the Holy Land has experienced since the Arab disorders broke out more than four months ago.
Among the dead are a British officer, a Jew, five Arab rebels, an Arab police sergeant and two railway employes. The wounded include seven British soldiers and four young Jewish laborers, two of them women.
The night was marked by a train wreck in which a guard and a fireman lost their lives. Arabs derailed the train as it approached the station at Ras-el-Ein, wrecking fourteen coaches.
British troops engaged Arab bands looting and completing the work of wreckage, killing four Arabs, capturing three and seizing large supplies of ammunition.
One Arab was killed and seven others wounded in a clash with troops near Nablus early today.
Returning from the engagement, Lieutenant R. M. Festing was killed and four others of a military detachment seriously injured in an automobile crash following explosion of a mine near Nablus. It was the first time Arab rebels had resorted to mining a road.
Arabs this morning threw a bomb into a group of settlers in a German-Jewish colony near Tiberias, Killing Gad Peleg-Avigdori, thirty years a Palestine resident and ranked as a “muktar” or colony chieftain.
2 WOMEN WOUNDED BY BOMB
Three Jewish workers, two of them women, were seriously wounded when Arabs threw a bomb into a bus in which they were riding to work at the Hadarom settlement near Tel Aviv. The wounded are: Shifra Shapiro, 20, Rachel Dingol, 24, and Nathan April, 23.
Another Jew, Yehuda Rokach, 26, was seriously wounded by a sniper firing from ambush at a bus on the way to Safed.
An Arab police sergeant was killed when shot from ambush in the Old City of Jerusalem early today.
Shooting went on during the night into the heart of Tel Aviv, from nearby Arab groves. Police reinforcements were rushed to the source of the shooting.
Heavy rifle fire was poured into the outskirts of Jerusalem from various directions.
Arabs set fire during the night to a timbershed near the Yabne railway station, causing damage estimated at $20,000.
An Arab labor camp at Ras-el-Ain was also set on fire.
HAIFA TENSE
A band of Arabs, who last night kidnaped all the Arab laborers at the Ras-el-Ain railway station, freed them after exacting from them a promise to join the strike.
Egyptians replaced striking Arab laborers in Jaffa telegraph and telephone offices.
A naval and military patrol narrowly escaped annihilation when a terrific explosion rocked Nazareth Street in Haifa a moment after they had passed through.
Haifa continued tense as Arabs redoubled efforts to force Arab laborers to join the country-wide general strike against Jewish immigration and sale of land to Jews. Ten more Arabs were arrested on charges of intimidation and four others for possession of arms.
Although the situation is reported grave in the important Mediterranean seaport, public services are being maintained and the harbor is functioning normally despite violence attending efforts by Arab strikers to prevent their replacement by Jews.
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