BOMB OUTRAGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1946, Page 5

BOMB OUTRAGE

HAIFA RAILWAY STATION PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF BUILDING WORK OF JEWISH TERRORISTS (Rec. 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20. A heavy explosion partly demolished Haifa’s eastern railway station, reports Reuter’s correspondent. Four Jews dumped a drum, labelled “explosives” at the entrance to the railway station building. The-police immediately cleared the buildings nearby and cordoned off the area. The drum exploded 20 minutes later. The blast rocked the eastern section of Haifa, and demolished the two-storey railway booking offices, and a N.A.A.F.I. shop. No casualties were reported. The outrage is stated to be the work of the Irgun Zvai Leumi. The explosives were carried in a stolen loriy. Reuter’s Jerusalem correspondent reports that five armed men, believed to be members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, raided the offices of the Exporters’ Association of Palestine, in Tel Aviv, and escaped with-£6OOO worth of diamonds. JEWS AND THE LONDON CONFERENCE (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) JERUSALEM, September 20. A Jewish Agency spokesman said the agency would only join in the London conference “as a free partner with freely elected He added that there were no signs of release from detention of the head of the agency’s political department, Moshe Shertok. Reuter’s corresporident says that a number of detainees have been released from the Latrun camp, but there is no confirmation of the rumour that Britain is releasing agency leaders.