A day of heavy fighting, with many new casualties and wounded, passed in Haifa. In the evening quiet prevailed.
In the old city of Jerusalem, an uncensored report reaching here states, three Jewish houses have been set on fire. In Haifa two barracks have been destroyed by fire, with no one to extinguish the flames.
The Jewish colony Motza, near Jerusalem, is in flames. The Jewish colony Artuf, in the Judean hills, was totally destroyed. A part of the colony of Tel Joseph was burned down.
A detachment of British soldiers arrived at Meier Shfeya, a settlement maintained by Junior Hadassah, the American young women’s Zionist organization, following an urgent appeal to the authorities in Palestine from the American Consul.
Jewish members of the self-defense corps are being disarmed and arrested, Isaac Ben Zvi, leader of the self-defense, telephoned here at one o’clock this morning.
Refugees who have arrived here this morning from Tel Aviv report a lack of bread and food in the old Jewish city.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
