Palestine’s rail network which has not had 24 hours of uninterrupted service in the last few weeks was disrupted again today when an explosion of a large land mine derailed a freight train on the Lydda-Egypt line, near Rehovoth, completely destroying one car and causing service to be suspended. No casualties were reported.
A British officer was killed earlier and an enlisted man slightly injured when a mine they were dismantling on the tracks north of Lydda exploded. The officer was in command of a sapper unit which had been summoned when a railway patrol discovered the mine.
Thirteen members of the Jewish settlement police at Safad have been arrested and lodged in the Acre prison, charged with repulsing the attack by a group of armed Arabs on the new settlement of Neoth Mordechai on Nov. 3, during which two Jews were killed. Six of the attackers have also been seized. Meanwhile, a land court has ruled that the 50 acres which provoked the dispute rightfully belong to the Jews.
It is reported that Israel Yesternitzky, 35, the deputy commander of the Stern Group, who was arrested in Tel Aviv last August disguised as a rabbi and deported to Eritrea, recently escaped disguised as a high-ranking Polish officer and fled to Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where the British governor put him up for the night and placed a plane at his disposal, which allegedly took him to Europe.
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