The Iraq-Haifa pipeline was severed in two places last night by unknown terrerists, the police announced today. Three telegraph poles are also damaged and four mined in the Beisan area, where the breaks in the pipeline occurred, the announcement said. The police pointed out that the pipeline carries fuel vital to the war against Japan and that attacks upon it are direct interference with the war effort.
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