A JEWISH YOUTH WAS KILLED AND A GIRL WOUNDED YESTERDAY WHEN A GROUP OF THIRTEEN YOUNG JEWS WAS ATTACKED NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION WHILE RETURNING AFOOT FROM A VISIT TO MESHEK HAPOALOT.
A SINGLE BARE-HEADED ARAB IN EUROPEAN CLOTHING FIRED EIGHT SHOTS FROM AN AUTOMATIC REVOLVER FROM BEHIND THE PARTY, KILLING ABRAHAM HAIM PERLMAN, 20-YEAR-OLD WORKER WHO LIVED IN THE ACHVAH QUARTER, AND INJURING MALKA YACOUBOVITCH. THE OTHERS DROPPED TO THE GROUND WHILE THE ASSAILANT WALKED OFF.
JEWS AND ARABS ARE QUITTING MIXED-POPULATION AREAS AND ARE RETURNING TO STRICTLY JEWISH AND ARAB QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM AS A RESULT OF RECENT DISTURBANCES AND CONTINUING TENSION, IT BECAME APPARENT TODAY.
A DISASTER WAS NARROWLY AVERTED WHEN THE ENGINEER OF A CROWDED TRAIN EN ROUTE FROM LYDDA TO JERUSALEM BROUGHT THE TRAIN TO A SCREECHING HALT JUST BEFORE HITTING A MINE PLACED ON THE TRACKS NEAR THE GINNIF VILLAGE. A JEWISH GHAFFIR (SPECIAL GUARD) WAS AMBUSHED NEAR A CEMETERY AT BETH ALPHA AND SLIGHTLY INJURED. HIS DOG, WHICH ATTEMPTED TO DEFEND HIM, WAS STABBED TO DEATH. SHOTS WERE EXCHANGED BETWEEN A BRITISH POLICE PATROL AND THREE ARMED ARABS NEAR DAHARYIA. THE ATTACKERS ESCAPED.
MEANWHILE, BRITISH TROOPS CONTINUED THEIR INTENSIVE DRIVE AGAINST ARAB TERRORIST BANDS IN THE NORTH, ARRESTING THE INHABITANTS OF SEVERAL SMALL VILLAGES FOR REFUSING TO REVEAL THE WHEREABOUTS OF A SYRIAN BAND, AND UNCOVERING LARGE CACHES OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION IN ONE LOCALITY.
THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE NORTHERN DIVISION VISITED SEVERAL ARAB VILLAGES DEMANDING THE DISCLOSURE OF THE LOCATION OF THE SYRIAN BAND ROAMING THE VICINITY. WHEN THE INHABITANTS REFUSED, THE TROOPS REMOVED THEM, INJURING FOUR WHO RESISTED ARREST. THE FURNITURE IN SEVEN HOUSES WAS BURNED.
THE ARMS WERE FOUND IN THE VILLAGE OF IKSAL IN A SEARCH OF NORTHERN VILLAGES WHICH FOLLOWED THE KILLING BY POLICE OF AN ARAB SHEPHERD WHO IGNORED AN ORDER TO HALT, BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE LARGE QUANTITIES OF AMMUNITIONS, THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO COLLECT $9,000 ACCUMULATED IN TAXES AND LOANS SINCE 1930 DUE FROM THE VILLAGE.
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