One Arab was killed and several wounded in a fight between British frontier troops and an Arab unit dressed in military uniform which attempted to cross from Syria into Palestine to attack Jewish settlements in the Mishmar Hayarden area. Two Iraqis and four Syrians were captured in the battle, while the others retreated into Syria.
The Jewish Agency today reiterated its demand for the immediate withdrawal of King Abdullah’s Arab Legion from Palestine, following the killing last night of five Jews, including one woman, and the wounding of twenty by members of the Legion firing on a Jewish convoy near Haifa.
The convoy was attacked from the Arab Legion camp outside of Haifa after a bomb exploded in the city, killing four Arabs and wounding three yesterday. An official government statement claimed that the Legion was fired on by Jews in the convoy, and the Arabs merely returned the fire. The Jewish Agency termed the official communique an “utter fabrication.”
Three Jews were killed today when they repulsed an Arab attack on Migdal Zedek quarries, near Petach Tikvah. Another Jew was shot and killed by British soldiers at the Haifa port allegedly for refusing to be searched. The victim was a worker at Haifa harbor. Haim Weinberg, one of the Jews injured during the explosion this week of the building where the offices of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Palestine Post were located, died today. He recently arrived here from Russia and participated in guerilla warfare against the German Army during the war.
ATTACKS ON CONVOYS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF PALESTINE CONTINUE
Six Jews were wounded today when an armored bus in which they were traveling to Haifa was ambushed in the Khalisa quarter and raked with gunfire, it was officially reported, while seven Jews were wounded this afternoon when a Jewish convoy en route to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv was attacked near Babelwad. One Jew was wounded by Arabs in Tiberias.
British troops, retaliating for the killing of a British soldier last night at the Manshieh quarter, on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa border, today demolished one Arab and one Jewish house since they were “not certain whence the fatal shot was fired.” Meanwhile, Arabs this morning blew up a Jewish house in the Manshieh quarter and also destroyed a section of the railway line between Athlit and Zichron Jacob.
The attack which Sternists carried out last night on three British policemen in Rehovoth-killing two of them and seriously wording the third–was made in reprisal for the killing of a member of the Stern Group a fortnight ago by the police, and not in revenge for the explosion of the Palestine Post building which the Sferninsts attributed to fascist members of British police units, it was revealed today.
Jaffa Customs guards today seized five boxes containing 100 pistols and 20,000 rounds of ammunition addressed to an Arab in Jaffa. The contraband was smuggled in aboard the S.S. Peksah. Customs officials said that six of the pistols are “missing.”
The official casualty list for the month of January, released today, said that 160 Jews, 222 Arabs, 19 British soldiers and police and 19 other civilians were killed. In addition, 317 Jaws were wounded, as were 507 Arabs and 71 Britons.The Jewish casualty figures include civilians and settlement police while the Arab totals include civilians, police and one member of the Transjordan frontier Force.
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