Terrorists today killed two British soldiers in an ambush of a detachment guarding water carriers at a camp near Umm el Fahm, in northern Palestine. Two Arabs were wounded in a bomb explosion in the Nachlat Achim quarter in Jerusalem.
Ten Jews are under arrest in Haifa and a punitive post of ten Arab ghaffirs (special policemen) has been stationed on Hashomer Street in connection with the bombing of an Arab cafe and the shooting of an Arab on April 17. Two Arabs were killed in the bombing.
Arab sources reported 200 Arabs held in Acre prison had launched a hunger strike and had been segregated from other prisoners. Four houses in the Arab village of Dabouries were marked by the military authorities for dynamiting following sabotage to the Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipeline in the vicinity. The line was punctured the eleventh time in twelve days.
Three Jewish youths were arrested today after an Arab bus had been fired upon between Safed and Rosh Pina. The bus was not hit. The youths, Abraham Shein, Shalom Lohr and Shlomo Ben-Josef, were found hiding between rocks in the hills with five bombs, two revolvers and 68 cartridges in their possession.
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