The bodyguard of the Mayor of Nablus and an Arab policeman were killed today, and a British assistant superintendent of police, a British policeman named Charlton and two Arab policemen were wounded in an ambuscade by an Arab band while motoring near Nablus.
Troops dynamited four houses in the Arab village of Mejd-al-Ahrum and several in Nahab village because of last week’s attack on a taxicab in which six Jews were killed.
An 18-car freight train, derailed by Arab terrorists last night, was partially destroyed by fire when three gasoline cars burst into flames. The crew narrowly escaped. Haifa-Lydda railway service remains suspended.
A Jerusalem-Jaffa passenger train, stopping for an obstruction, was heavily fired upon by Arab snipers. Shots were fired into the Mt. Kastel quarry. A girls’ farm near Affuleh was the target of snipers. Shots were reported to have been fired into the home of Amin Bey Ibn el Hadi, a member of the Moslem Supreme Council.
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