Two hundred and eighty visaless Jewish immigrants apprehended early this morning on a blockade runner off the Palestine coast were this afternoon en route to Cyprus in a British deportation ferry.
The British boarding party met no resistance as it took control of the refugee vessel, named the "Thirty-Five" in honor of 35 Haganah members who died in an Arab ambush near Kfar Etzion in the middle of last month. The transshipment in Haifa harbor was also carried, out without incident. The refugees, who are reported to have embarked at an Italian port, included 179 men, 89 women and 12 children in their early teens.
Jerusalem, which was fairly quiet Saturday after British troops set up artillery emplacements for light and mediums mortars and emanon opposite the Yeaning Moshe quarter, erupted into Violent action today. Four loud explosion rocked the center of the city as Arabs blew up shops in the Jewish business district.Heavy rifle, pistol and machinegun fire broke out after the blasts, which took place in an area where the central police station and the headquarters of a British troop unit are located.
The Haganah today killed eight Arabs and wounded e number of others in a punitive raid following an attack on Mekor Hayim, Jewish suburb of Jerusalem, in which at least one Jew was murdered and one house destroyed. One house in the Arab village of Bet Safafa, from which the Arab attack was launched, was destroyed by Jewish sappers.
Two other Arabs were killed and two wounded seriously when a bus in which they were travelling was attacked by Jews near Tarshisha, in western Galilee. Last night one Arab was killed and several wounded when the Haganah raided the village of Kabri, which had been used as a base for Arab guerrillas who came from Lebanon recently to attack the Jewish settlement of Yechiam, in Upper Galilee.
Between 800 and 1,000 Arabs from several different countries last night entered Palestine from Transjordan, it was reported here today. Arab sources assert that they are equipped with British and German artillery and are being concentrated in the Jerusalem area for an overwhelming assault on the Jewish sections of the city, It was stated that Arab guerrillas were escorted across the Jordan by units of the Arab Legion, Transjordan troops used by the British for duty in Palestine, and that the British were aware of the crossing.
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