TERRORISM IN PALESTINE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22501, 8 September 1938, Page 11

TERRORISM IN PALESTINE

BANDITS’ ATTACKS ON JEWS SHOTS FIRED AT CAR FROM AMBUSH CASUALTIES IN ENGAGEMENT WITH POLICE (HOTTED press association-— copyright.) (Received September 7, 8.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, September 7. In spite of the presence of a bodyguard, bandits ambushed between Haifa and Tel Aviv a car containing a businessman named Yechiel, a brother of the Zionist leader, Dr. Chaim Weizmann. After puncturing the tyres with bullets and causing the car to overturn the bandits riddled it with rifle fire, killing Mr Yechiel’s son, a leading lawyer, and wounding all tfie other occupants. Bandits in ambush fired on a cartful of workers going home at Nessziona, killing a newly-arrived migrant and seriously wounding two other Jews and a girl. An Arab jumped from a motorcar and fired 10 shots, killing a Jewish shopkeeper and a customer, and wounding another. He then drove off pursued by police, who arrested the driver and three passengers all armed with automatic revolvers. Four terrorists were killed in an engagement with police at the Jewish settlement of Mishmarhayrden. A Jewish supernumerary erastable was killed and his companion was wounded. Rishonlezion, an Arab constable, was killed at Beersheba. The Jerusalem correspondent of •‘The Times” states that rebels who attacked Lydda at night burned the post office, damaged a railway bridge, derailed an engine, blocked the line and cut down 4000 Jewishowned fruit trees. The increasing boldness of the cold-blooded assassin who indiscriminately murders Arabs and Jews is creating alarm.