DEMANDS ACCEPTED

Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 8

DEMANDS ACCEPTED

PALESTINE STRIKE ENOED BAILWAY WORKERS STILL OUT ..JERUSALEM; April 23, The week-long strike of 50,000 Palestine Government' employees will end at midnight on the leaders' orders, because the Government has: accepted most of the strikers' demands for higher pay and better allowances. Although the civil servants' strike has ended. 7,000 railway workers and dockers refused to return, claiming that their demands had not been settled. More than 20 ships are idle at Haifa. Another party of terrorists attacked the police station at Ramatgau, a suburb of Tel-Aviv, and captured a quantity of arms. It is officially stated that one Arab policeman was killed and one British and one Arab constable wounded in the raid. Twenty or 30 armed Jewish gained entrace to the station disguised as British soldiers and, Arabs,. They held up three policemen and blew off the door of the armoury. Police reinforcements, despite the fact that the roads leading to the station were mined, reached the station* in time to engage the attackers, one' of whom was shot dead, two'wounded, and one captured. The only casualty at the Tel-Aviv Railway Station was one Jewish terrorist,: who was seriously injured while igniting : a : bomb.