Three Jews were killed in Arab attacks today. Ghaffir (auxiliary policeman) Joseph Ben-Moshe Ratzon, 21 was slain when the Yemenite quarter Neve Zion, near Rishon-le-Zion, was heavily attacked. A Jewish engineer and foreman of the Palestine Potash Company, motoring near the company’s Dead Sea plant, were killed from ambush. The engineer was Michael Burn, 35, and the foreman, Samuel Elerstein, 40. A driver, Aaron Lublanoff, was seriously wounded and a worker, Chaim Isbi, was slightly injured in the ambuscade.
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