MORE DEATHS IN PALESTINE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25377, 27 December 1947, Page 7

MORE DEATHS IN PALESTINE

BRITONS, ARABS, AND JEWS CLASHES ON CHRISTMAS DAY (N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 26. Two British soldiers were killed and three were wounded in a cafe in Tel Aviv last night. The soldiers were celebrating Christmas, and, according to Jewish sources, refused to leave at closing time. The Jerusalem correspondent of the Associated Press says that Arab -snipers in the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border area wounded two Jewish men and one Jewish girl. Two grenades thrown at a bus in a Jerusalem suburb wounded eight Jewish passengers. Throughout Christmas night, Arabs and Jews of the Haganah stalked each other in the narrow streets of the Old City of Jerusalem. Two Jews, one Arab, and one Armenian are reported to have been killed. It is reported that in the no-man’s land between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, two Arabs and two Jews were, killed in guerrilla clashes, and that eight persons were killed and 25 wounded, including some Britons, in Haifa.

North of Jerusalem, Jews went out against Arabs attacking convoys. One Arab is reported to have been -killed. Three British policemen and two airborne troops were wounded during a Christmas Eve clash in H?ifa.

A special envoy of King Farouk of Egypt has flown to Beirut to hand to the Government of the Lebanon a Note on the situation in Palestine. A similar Note has been handed to the Syrian Government.