Troops and police today cordoned off the Kiryat Meir area of Tel Aviv and conducted a house-to-house search following armed attacks last night by Jewish extremists on four police camps in various parts of Palestine. Five unidentified Jews were reported to have been killed and at least 15 British policemen wounded in the attack on one of the camps at Sarona, near Tel Aviv.
The “Voice of Israel,” secret radio station of the Jewish resistance movement, declared this afternoon that the attacks were made on police mobile force camps at Shefaamer, near Haifa, at Sarona, near Tel Aviv, at Kfar Vitkin and at Jenin, Northern Palestine. The attack on the Sarona camp lasted ninety minutes, during which the police engaged in a gun battle with the terrorists who used explosives and tommy guns.
In the assault on Shefaamer, an assistant police superintendent, J.M. McLaughlin, was injured when police headquarters there were blasted. The attackers gained access to the building by cutting the surrounding fence. A tower at the station was damaged.
At Kfar Vitkin, the raiders placed explosives in a police parking lot and damaged several trucks. The police opened fire but the attackers escaped.
ALL TRAFFIC FROM TEL AVIV TO PETACH TIKVAH CHECKED
All traffic on the road from Tel Aviv to Petach Tikvah was checked today by police patrols in an effort to find a clue to the persons who attacked the Sarona camp. Several of the 15 wounded policemen there suffered serious injuries. The local arsenal and the central command post were severely damaged.
The battle between the police and the attackers at Sarona started when guards saw the terrorists near a fence on the north side of the camp. The police immediately went into action using small arms and hand grenades. The attackers retaliated with bombs flung into the camp compound. Two Jews, both of whom had Stem guns, were killed in the camp, while a third died of wounds shortly after being brought to a nearby Government hospital.
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