One Jew was killed and two injured today in two attacks on busses between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv that brought the total of Jewish dead to twenty-nine in more than six weeks of Arab disorders against the Government and the Jews. Another Jew and four Arabs were killed yesterday. Total death toll is now estimated at close to 70.
Rachman Kolontarev, 29, a student of the Hebrew University, was shot dead. Meier Schuchman, driver of a bus owned by the Eged Co. was seriously wounded. Chaim Yalovsky was slightly injured. Both were removed to Hadassah Hospital.
The first attack occurred early this evening eleven kilometers from Jerusalem and the second near the Arab village of Lifta. The two busses were riddled with more than 100 shots fired from the hills. Police scoured the hills in search of the snipers.
Two Arabs were under arrest today for the ambushing and murder yesterday of Franz Borchardt, 59, a German Jew in the Giveat Shaul suburb while walking to Jerusalem. He had arrived here in 1935.
2 ARAB WOMEN KILLED
Two Arab women and one man were shot dead Sunday by soldiers in Jaffa who fired a volley into a house from which bombs were being hurled at passing troops.
Another Arab was shot dead near Tulkarem when villagers, refusing to give up their arms, exchanged fire with Government forces.
Tear gas bombs were used by Government forces for the first time last night at Nablus Hill to rout Arab rebels. Shots were fired at the Government house in Jerusalem for the third time.
Foreign telephone service, including wires to Cairo, cut off by Arab sabotage, was restored this morning.
The authorities instituted flying secret patrols to search passengers on trains for arms.
Explosions and shootings occurred during the entire night on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border. A Jew, Abraham Fish, was stoned and injured on the seashore last night by an Arab youth who, Fish said, mistook him for Meier Dizengoff, mayor of the all-Jewish city.
Four Jewish huts burned in the Hatikva quarter of Jaffa and bombs thrown in Manshia, Hadar Carmel and Tiberias.
Earlier in the day, a Jewish delegation led by Isaac Ben Zvi, president of the Jewish National Council, appeared before District Commissioner Crosbie and complained that there was insufficient safety on the roads.
MILITARY LEADERS CONFER
Military leaders of the British forces in Palestine met yesterday to discuss steps to halt the Arab revolutionary disorders. The conference, under the chairmanship of Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean fleet, was believed to be a prelude to the declaration of martial law. Present at the conference were the commanders of the Palestine garrison, the air force and the police.
At Nablus, hotbed of the Arab nationalist movement, a meeting of the Arab Supreme Council issued a manifesto voicing regret at the current lawlessness, condemning attacks on police and cutting of telephone wires.
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