Haganah Blows Up Bridge Linking Syria to Palestine when Attacks on Jews Resume

Reports from northern Palestine tonight said that the Haganah had blown up bridge linking Syria to Palestine, following new attacks on Jewish settlements in upper Galilee.

Arab snipers renewed attacks on Jewish colonies near Dan, on the northern frontier, and sporadic fighting was said to be continuing. Strong troop reinforcements, accompanied by aircraft, were dispatched from Rosh Pina and other installation.

Sirens wailed in Jerusalem this evening and British troops were alerted when a Haganah squad demolished the home of the mukhtar of Lifta, an Arab suburb adjoining the mixed Arab-Jewish quarter of Romema.

Early reports said that at least one person was buried under the debris of the two-story stone structure. It was the second alert of the day, the other having been sounded this morning when a road mine exploded under a Jewish bus.

At dawn this morning, Haganah units using mortars attacked two Arab strong points in the sheikh Jarach quarter of Jerusalem in an attempt to cut the cordon around Hadassah Hospital and the Hebrew University. Mortar fire destroyed two houses, but the Arabs replied with heavy rifle fire, cutting off access to Jewish suburbs neighboring the Sheikh Jarach section.

TEN JEWS KILLED OR WOUNDED IS ARAB ATTACK; BRITISH ARREST 100 DSFENDERS

A large-scale Arab attack: on Kfar Urleh, due west of Jerusalem, which began last night, raged until dusk this evening when police and troops finally arrived, driving off the attackers. Ten of the settlement’s defenders ware reported to lave been killed or seriously wounded. The police arrested the entire male population of the village, comprising about 100 persona, and confiscated their areas He explanation was given for their action.

The Mekor Haim suburb of Jerusalem was attacked from two sides this morning and the battle continued all during the day. Intermittent shooting was heard from the Old City, the Jewish quarter of which is still besieged.

A Jewish Agency spokesman, commenting on the Arab invasions from Syria, praised the prompt action of the British troops, pointing out there is nothing that need stand in the way of cooperation between the Jewish defenders and the British military. He declared that such cooperation did not constitute any violation of the British avowed intention of not implementing partition.

He said that the attacks Syria were a test case for the United Nations and the Arab states involved, adding that information reaching the Agency indicated that the invasion could not have been carried- out without the knowledge of the Syrian Government. The reaction of the U.N. to these attacks will determine future Arab policy, the spokesman stressed.

In other incidents today a resident of Ramat Hakovesh, north of Tel Aviv, was wounded and his rifle stolen when ambushed by Arabs while working the fields; an Arab was arrested for attempting to stab a British policeman in Bethlehem, but was released from the local jail by a crowd of women; four armed Arabs held up the survey office in Haifa, escaping with a large quantity of arms; and Arabs from Jaffa attempted to attack Tel Aviv, but were driven off by Haganah reinforcements. Miriam Mindel, 22, was killed today on the Tel Aviv border by British soldiers, while Haim Unger, 27, and Ephraim Nagari, 50, were killed in Haifa by snipers. Menashe Cahana, 22, end Yahir Yechi, 21, were seriously injured when the truck in which they were riding was blown up by Arabs near Beit Dajan, an Arab village adjoining Ramleh.

A synagogue in the Maccabi quarter of Tel Aviv was the target of Arab snipers today, after a car had delivered six rifles to Arabs entrenched in a house facing the synagogue. The Haganah replied, wounding one of the snipers. There were no Jewish casualties.

There were no further reports of violence from Yavneh, where 12 Jews and eight Arabs were killed yesterday when an Arab attack on the settlement resulted in a pitched battle with the Haganah and British reinforcements.