OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 241, 8 July 1938, Page 11

OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE

Terrorism Rampant

MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED

Panic Follows Explosion

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, (Received July 7, 9.30 p.m.)

JERUSALEM, July 7. ' Eighteen Arabs and three Jews were killed when a bomb exploded in the' crowded municipal market near the central police station at Haifa yesterday. Thirty-eight other persons were seriously wounded.

This ds the worst single outrage since the present Arab-Jewish tension began. Temporary panic reigned after the expius.u. . which, it is alleged, the police opened fire to restore order, although it is reported that other shots were fired from the housetops. 1 his caused other fatalities. Those killed included a Jew, Touvia Dounia, brother-in-law of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the British Zionist Federation, who came into the line of tire as he was driving a ear. A bomb which was flung from a train on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv line yesterday killed a Jewish girl and wounded many others who were waiting at the gates of a level-crossing. British troops surprised a strong Arab band which was attempting- to puncture the Irak pipe line in the Valley of Esdrelon. Eleven Arabs were killed and six seriously wounded as a result of the encounter. A military court has sentenced to death four Arab villagers accused of ’setting fire to a flour mill near Lldda in which they had locked the Arab miller, his wife, and his daughter, whom the Jewish watchman rescued.