JEWISH TERROR BEGUN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22569, 24 February 1948, Page 5

JEWISH TERROR BEGUN

BRITISH VEHICLES BLOWN UP ARABS ADMIT JERUSALEM BLAST (N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright.) (2 p.m.) JERUSALEM, Feb. 23. Jewish road mines blew up four British vehicles, including an armoured ear, in Jerusalem’s Jewish quarter in what is considered to he the beginning of a new terrorist campaign against British military forces and police.

The Jews earlier had planted a num-' ber of electric mines round the quarter for use against British vehicles entering the area. Three British soldiers were injured in the blowing up of an armoured car. It was escorting a crane which the army had sent to assist in the rescue work in blasted Ben Yehuda street. Troops Attacked With Mortars Jews, with mortars, tonight attacked a small detachment of the Royal Army Pay Corps which is housed in a Syrian orphanage on the outskirts of the city. There were no casualties as the mortar shells fell short of the building. During fighting between Jews and Arabs in the Mount Scopus district, a road bridge leading to Hadassah Hospital was blown up. The veteran Arab guerrilla leader Abdul Kader Husseini, claimed responsibility for the bomb explosion in Ben Yehuda street yesterday which, he said, was a reprisal for last week’s Jewish “basket bomb” explosion in Ramleh market place. The Jewish defence force Haganah, in a broadcast, I accused the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem I of ordering Husseini to admit responsibility for the blasting “for his own and followers' ends.”