Arabs Accuse Jews: Reports Of More Clashes

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1948, Page 8

Arabs Accuse Jews: Reports Of More Clashes

LONDON, August 16

The Amman correspondent of the Associated Press reports that the Arab Legion says that Jewish forces early today again attacked Arab front-line positions in New and Old Jerusalem, and that the Jews lost heavily. “United Nations observers found three Jewish bodies in Arab positions in the Bab cl Wad area, along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, after a heavy Jewish attack on an Arab Legion outpost," says Reuter’s Amman correspondent. “The observers were investigating a truce violation. Arab Legion sources said that the Jews intended to occupy Deir Ayub, a village between Bad el Wad and Latrumbut the attack was repulsed.’’

Reuter’s correspondent in Bethlehem says that Captain M. Taymans, a Belgian member of the United Nations’ truce observers’ team, was wounded by a mine explosion in Bethlehem. Captain Taymans is the third Belgian officer wounded since hostilities began in Palestine. Reuter’s correspondent in Nicosia says that the last batch of Jewish immigrants above military age will leave Sqprus today, leaving behind 12,000 younger men and women whom Britain, is holding.