Sabotage of railways and communications featured continuing Arab terrorism today. A bridge was blown up and tracks torn up between Haifa and Lydda. Telephone lines were cut between Tulkarem and Kalkillia, but were soon repaired.
In the seventh attack on his orchard in recent weeks, the last thousand trees in Abraham Lightman’s orchard at Bath Shlomo were destroyed. A home-made bomb was thrown into the home of a Jewish hotel guard, but failed to explode.
An Arab terrorist named Abdul Mejid Raja, sentenced to death by a military court on April 6 for participating in an engagement with British troops near the Um-el-Fahm village, was hanged at acre prison today.
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