The German Christian colony of Waldheim was under virtual curfew today following its refusal to permit British troops to search the premises in connection with yesterday’s land mine explosion at Sheikh Abrek, in which two Jews were killed. Police dogs had followed a trail from the scene of the explosion to a workshop in the colony. When permission to search was refused, the troops threw a cordon around the colony pending instructions from military headquarters at Jerusalem on the procedure to be followed. The German Consul General went immediately to Waldheim.
A Jewish bus traveling from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv was fired upon near Ramleh last night. A passenger, Michael Chassidoff, 24, was seriously wounded.
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