Two Jews and three Arabs were dead today and several other persons wounded in continuing violence.
Terrorist bullets killed a Sephardic Jewish carpenter, Haim Naka, 30, as he walked near the Montefiore quarter this evening on his way home. Yesterday, Joseph Saphir, 21, was shot dead while guarding the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association forest near Mizpeh, in the vicinity of Tiberias. Saphir was born in Mizpeh. Hanoch Levinson, 27, was wounded while guarding Jewish plowmen near Maoz in the Jordan Valley. An Arab shot him, seized his rifle and escaped. Levinson was an immigrant from Germany.
Two Arabs were executed immediately after a terrorist “tribunal” had convicted them of informing. Their wives were seriously wounded. An Arab band fired into a group of Arab laborers engaged in road construction near Nablus when they refused to abandon the job. Two workers were wounded.
A Syrian band yesterday seriously damaged a section of the barbed wire barricade being constructed along the Palestine-Syrian frontier. After cutting 50 kilometers of wire and destroying concrete foundations, the band safely retired to Syria. Another terrorist band dynamited a bridge and wrecked sections of the military road near the northern border. Police engaged the band, reportedly inflicting a number of casualties. One terrorist was killed and six others captured when troops surprised a band igniting the Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipeline near Ain Harod.
Meanwhile, the Partition Commission continued its hearings, with Government officials testifying at in camera sessions. Among those heard were Education Director Wilfred J. Farrell and Inspector General of Police Allan Saunders.
President Judah L. Magnes of the Hebrew University appealed to Major General Robert Haining to exercise clemency in the case of two Jewish youths sentenced by a military court to death for firing at an Arab bus.
Twelve European Jews were arrested at the northern border today when caught trying illegally to cross into Palestine from Lebanon.
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