PALESTINE ROAD MINES CAUSE SOME BRITISH CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 7

PALESTINE ROAD MINES CAUSE SOME BRITISH CASUALTIES

(Rec. 11 a.m.) ' JERUSALEM, July 16. It is officially stated that two civilians were arrested after a mine explosion under the road bridge near Petach Tikvah. The explosion killed One British.. soldier and,, injured another. Another mine exploded in the same'district and injured three more soldiers. A third mine damaged a staff car, but the occupants were uninjured. Three British soldiers were injured througli a mine blowing up on the Haifa-Jaffa highway, wrecking a jeep and a lorry. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS REPORTED EN ROUTE (lleo. 1 p.m.) JERUSALEM, July 16. About 4,000 illegal Jewish immigrants, who,, on July 13, left Marseilles aboard the steamer President Garfield, are expected to approach the Palestine coast on Friday or Saturday in an attempt to run the British blookade. The ship left Marseilles with clearance papers; for Colombia, South America. ARAB WOMEN RALLY AGAINST ZIONISM (Rec. 1 p.m.) JERUSALEM, July 16. Madame Haw Amin El Husseini, wife of the Mufti of Jerusalem, urgeda rally of 1,800 Moslem and Christian Arab women to “ divorce your husband if he sells land to the Jews. Dress simply arid.. economise in the household.” She appealed to all Arab women in Palestine to join their husbands and brothers in the struggle against Zionism. IMPORTANT POST FOR MR lAN MILNER (N.Z.P A especial Correspondent.) LONDON, July 16. Mr lan Milner, the former Rhodes Scholar and eldest son of the late Mr Frank Milner, rector of the Wahabi Boys’ High School, has been appointed rapporteur to the United Nations committee investigating conditions in Palestine Mr Milner,- who until recently was on the staff of the Australian External Affairs Department in Canberra, will be closely associated with the committee's report, which will be compiled in Geneva.