Ten Jews were dead today at the end of 24 hours of renewed disorders which shattered the comparative peace of the last few days. The death toll in yesterday’s land mine explosion near the Jewish colony of Ramat Hakovesh rose to eight when two more Jews died this morning or wounds suffered in the blast. The victims were Ludwig Abel, 25, and Ludwig Levenstein, 25. A ninth Jew, Jacob El Kaim, was slain in an Arab ambuscade on the Acre-Safed road near Athlit. A terrorist band attacked the Jewish colony of Magdiel, north of Petach Tikvah, fatally wounding Zvi Lipshitz, 21, a special policeman.
A police patrol engaged a band of 15 Arabs this morning on the Acre-Safed road, killing three and seriously wounding seven. British troops surrounded and searched six Arab villages in the “bloody triangle” area of central Palestine, killing several armed Arabs who attempted to escape.
Maj. Gen. Robert Haining, commander of British forces in Palestine, flew to Nablus yesterday and personally reconnoitred hideouts from which arab bands emerge to conduct their raids. Troops rounded up cafe loiterers in Nablus and set them to work clearing obstructions placed by terrorists on the Tulkarem road.
Terrorists derailed the engine and two coaches of a train on the Lydda-Tel Aviv line and fired into the wreck from the surrounding hills, seriously wounding the engineer. A repair trolley was also overturned and a Jewish laborer, Benjamin Shlonsky, 39, seriously wounded. A Government official rounded up several hundred Arab peasants and urged them to resist the terrorist bands and cooperate with the authorities in the interests of peace.
The Central Committee of the Agudath Israel, religious organization, cabled King George appealing for commutation of the sentence of Mordecai Schwartz, Jewish auxiliary policeman, who is scheduled to be hanged on Aug. 16 for killing an Arab policeman.
The authorities withdrew a planned prohibition on prayers at the Wailing Wall on Sunday during Tisha B’Av. The District Commissioner, in a letter to the Jewish National Council, the Jerusalem Jewish Community Council and the Agudath Israel, gave assurances that no ban would be issued, and promised an ample guard during the day, but asked that no procession be held at night.
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