Eighteen Arabs and two Jews were killed today in a bomb explosion in Haifa which injured 60 other persons, 38 of them seriously. One of the dead is Tuvia Dounia, brother-in-law of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Mr. Dounia, 55, was an engineer.
The bomb exploded on King’s Way, near the Haifa Central Railway Station, at a moment when pedestrian and motor traffic in the thoroughfare was heaviest. In the ensuing excitement, many shots were fired, some by Arab constables at Jews who happened to be passing by.
Earlier, a bomb thrown from a passing train into a crowd on Herzl Street, Tel Aviv, killed a Jewess, Sara Coblens, 26, and seriously wounded Isaac Hurvitz, 59. Many others
were slightly injured, including a boy named Nathan Ovadya. Several shop windows were shattered by the explosion. Police surrounded the railway station in neighboring Jaffa and detained all Arab passengers.
Shraga Averbuch, a Jewish colonist, died in the hospital the fifth fatality resulting from an Arab ambuscade yesterday at Ein Vered.
News of a pitched battle late Tuesday between Arabs and British soldiers near the Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipeline in the Esdraelon Valley reached here today. Eight Arabs were reported to have been killed and one soldier wounded. One Arab was killed when a heavy terrorist attack on the Jewish colony of Tirath Zvi was repulsed.
The eleven-hour curfew in Jerusalem was reduced to eight-and-a-half hours, between 9 p.m. and 5:30 a.m.
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