OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE

Southland Times, Issue 23332, 16 October 1937, Page 7

OUTRAGES IN PALESTINE

TRAIN BLOWN UP BY MINE ARABIAN ATTACKS REPORTED MOTOR-BUS AMBUSHED AND PIPE-LINE PIERCED (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 15, 8.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, October 14. A train en route to Lydda from Haifa was blown up by a land mine 20 miles from Jaffa. Three passengers were killed.

A number of coaches were overturned by the explosion which destroyed a small bridge. A policeman accompanying the train reported that he saw a number of Arabs fleeing. They failed to obey an order to halt and he shot dead two. A report from the Jewish Settle ment in the Beisan valley states that the Iraq oil pipeline was pierced in two places, and oil gushing from the pipe ignited. A party of Bedouins tried to prevent colonists from ploughing Lad in the new colony of Tiratzui in the Beisan area claiming that the ground belonged to them. Four Jews were slightly wounded. ESCORT FOR TROOP TRAINS For the first time since rioting began, an armoured trolly-car containing troops, machine-guns and searchlights was used to pilot two trains carrying the first battalion of the Royal Sussex to Egypt. The precaution was due to uneasiness for the safety of the troops who were due to travel at night time through the narrow Judean mountain defiles before joining the main line. The battalion is being replaced by the Black Watch Regiment. A crowded Jewish motor-bus bound for Telaviv was ambushed when rounding a dark corner at the bottom of a defile on the Jaffa road, five miles from Jerusalem. Thirty shots were fired and bombs were thrown. Two Arabs were killed and nine Jews injured, including one of the Jewish supernumerary police, and two women. Those not injured jumped from the bus and rushed to cover. The bus ran backwards and crashed into an olive grove. The Jewish driver of the bus was later arrested for allegedly shooting an Arab passenger when the bus was fired on. An Arab was killed when a bomb that he was about to throw at another Jewish motor-bus exploded in his hands. Five more leaders of the Arab Higher Committee have been banished from Palestine. All are at present abroad. British police, who were dining in a Greek Cafe, showed coolness when a bomb was thrown among them. They picked it up, preventing an explosion. The police have ordered all cinemas in Jerusalem to close. POLICE AND ARABS CLASH (Received October 16, 12.40 a.m.) JERUSALEM, October 15. Two British policemen were shot dead in a clash with Arabs on the Bethlehem main road before dawn. The police learned of the concentration of an armed gang near Solomon’s pool and rushed out four tenders equipped with Lewis guns and searchlights. They encountered heavy rifle-fire from both sides of the road. The police opened fire and inflicted heavy casualties on the Arabs who were routed. CURFEW IMPOSED IN JERUSALEM MARTIAL LAW EXPECTED (Received October 15, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 15. The Jerusalem correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says the curfew has been imposed, troops are patrolling the streets and an early declaration of martial law is expected. The Palestine - Syrian frontier was closed at midnight.