Jewish Demolition Squad Blasts Arab Village Near Haifa Used As Base for Guerrillas

Fourteen houses were demolished and ten others ##averely damaged by a Jewish demolition squad which wrecked the Arab village of Ghubai##, near Haifa. The village, which had been used as a base for guerrilla attacks on Jewish traffic into Haifa, was evacuated by its inhabitants two days ago, after an ##rlier attack by Jewish forces.Two Jews were killed in Haifa when Arab snipers opened fire on a bus in which ##ey were travelling. A British constable was killed and several others wounded when ##hey entered an abandoned Jewish house in the port city and tripped a wire setting off ? mine.

One Jew was killed and a second wounded when a party of Jewish road workers ##ere attacked by Arabs near Bin Arus, on the southern end of the Dead Sea. A simultaneous attack on a nearby installation of the Palestine Potash Company was beaten off. ## Tiberias a l4-year-old Jewish girl was killed by a sniper. Two Jews were wounded ##y snipers on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa front. Two Arabs were killed in Jericho by a premature explosion of a hand grenade.

In Jerusalem a large cannon was seen mounted on the building of the Rockealler Antiquities Museum, in an all-Arab section near the Damascus Gate to the Old ##ity. The weapon, which was brought to Jerusalem openly from Jericho, is trained on ##he Hadassah Hospital, atop Mt. Scopus.

The Hebrew press this afternoon reported that the Sternists are negotiating with the Arabs for the safe return of Abraham Cohen, who was captured attempting to ##ggle a three-ton bomb through Arab territory in a truck, The Sternists captured member of Arabs and are holding them as hostages pending the return of Cohen.

A Jewish Agency spokesman attacked a curfew imposed on the ?oads of Tiberias following a Jewish raid on an Arab village which a base for guerrilla operations. The spokesman pointed out that when the Jews under attack under attack by foreign Arabs in the ## district the government was “neutral.” The Agency also denied that any Jews had ##fired on an American passenger plane over Tel Aviv yesterday. The TWA, operators of the airline, have cancelled further flights to Palestine because of the firing.

A Jerusalem magistrate today issued a warrant for the arrest of Anton Dajoud, American consulate chauffeur, charging him with planting the bomb which last week blasted Jewish Agency headquarters and killed 13 persons.