Fourteen Arabs were killed and at least 26 wounded ?ay when a truck filled with 400 pounds of explosives blew up in an Arab residential ?a in Haifa. The explosion started fires blazing over a wide area.
The blast, which was believed to be the work of the Stern Group, wrecked the ##en-story Salameh building and shook the entire Haifa port area. Heavy gunfire ##ke out immediately after the explosion, with bullets reportedly sweeping indis##inately through offices whose occupants hugged the floor for safety.According to eyewitnesses, two army-type vehicles drew up in front of the Salameh building. The driver of the first vehicle transferred to the second which ##ve off a few minutes before the blast occurred. Observers said that the Sternists ##itary headquarters in Palestine.
ADVANCE GROUP OF U.N. PALESTINE COMMISSION ARRIVES IN JERUSALEM
The six-member secretariat of the U.N. Palestine Commission arrived in Jerusalem this morning by air from Lydda airport and began to set up its headquarters in two-story building opposite British military headquarters in the King David Hotel. ?y immediately met in an informal talk with Sir Henry Gurney, chief secretary of Palestine Government.
An around-the-clock British guard was posted outside the building, which British engineers have fortified with Bren gun emplacements. Dr. Pablo Ascarate, ###mer Spanish Republican Ambassador to Britain, heads the group, which includes a ##ek, a Norwegian, an Indian, a Briton and an Australian.
JEWS REPULSE ATTACKS NEAR SAFAD; FIGHT NEAR TEL AVIV GOES INTO THIRD DAY
For the third successive day Magdiel, about 15 miles north of Tel Aviv, was thought under heavy attack today. Two Jews were killed and three wounded while the Arabs suffered six dead and nine wounded Heavy machineguns and mortars were used the attackers who were driven off by the Jews.
The police station in the Old City here was raided this morning by an Arab and dressed in Arab police uniform, which made off with several Sten guns and 75 ##fles. Meanwhile, a British military court here fined six Syrian members of the Arab Liberation Army $1,600 or four years imprisonment for firing on Jews and British security personnel. The court granted them “reasonable time” to decide whether to pay or go to jail.
Representatives of 11 Christian communities in Palestine, in a joint statement issued in Jerusalem’s Old City today, blamed partition for the “lamentable situation ##n which the Holy Land, the cradle of peace, is new placed.”
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