HAIL OF BULLETS
. PANIC IN NIGHT CLUB (11 a.m.) JERUSALEM, Aug. 11. The Arabs who attacked Jews in the Hawaii night club, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, reported yesterday, 'wore the uniform of an Arab youth organisation. The lights went out in the night club, which is the most modern in Tel Aviv, a few minutes after the Arabs began shooting indiscriminately into the customers, all of whom were Jews. The panic-stricken occupants tried to rush the exit to dodge the hail of bullets. The raiders then threw a hand grenade. The club is owned in partnership by Jewish ex-servicemen and Arab landowners. , , , Reuter’s stated that Arabs who lived nearby had ob.iected to the noise from the club after dusk. The police prevented a Jewish underground attempt to rob a bank in Jerusalem. They captured a Jew carrying a hand grenade and a sack containing money from the bank. Five other persons, including a girl, escaped. Mahmoud Labib, leader of the combined Arab illegal armies Najada and Futuwa, was summoned to police headquarters today and told to leave Palestine within 48 hours. He is a former leader of the Moslem Brotherhood in Cairo.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22405, 12 August 1947, Page 5
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