PALESTINE TERRORISM RENEWED

Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1946, Page 9

PALESTINE TERRORISM RENEWED

Press Assn.-

BOMBS EXPLODE IN JERUSALEM RAILWAY STATION AFTER TELEPHONE WARNING

By Telegraph

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Received Thursday, 10.40 a.m." LONDON, October 30. Three bombs exploded in Jerusalem railway station toxay and the British United Press correspondent says that at east twelve people are missing. Two bombs also exploded near the detention barracks in Jerusalem. The entire railway station was damaged and will be unusable fob trains for a week. The explosions ocpurred forty minutes after a telephoned warning. toi

The Associated Press correspondent says that two taxi loads of Jewish youths, armed with tommyguns, succeeded in entering the central station and planting the bombs. The three bombs exploded about an hour after the terrorists had forced their entry. The bombs shook the station at about fifteen second intervals. The poliee said that one of the casualties is believed to have been an Arab civilian, who grabbed the terrorists when they alighted from the taxis. Police and troops were rushed to the station following the warning, and sappers were trying to locate the bombs when the explosions occurred. They succeeded in getting the first bomb out of the building, Where it exploded harmlessly. The second exploded in the hands of a British police sergeant who was removing it. The third exploded inside the building and wrecked the waiting-room and loading platf'orm. Reuter's correspondent says that

one constable is believed to have been killed and one terrorist wounded. British troops are later believed to have captured three men and a girl, all of whom were .wounded, half a mile from the . station. A motor-cyclist carrying explosives was arrested near the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Barracks. British Soldiers Killed Three British soldiers were killed and 15 injured this morning when a road culvert in the Arab quarter of •Jerusalem, was blown up under an army lorry convoy. The police state two charges of TNT or gelignite placed beside the culvert, were detonated by a plunger when a 3lorry convoy reached the spot. The first army lorry was burned out, the second hurled down a 20-foot embankment and the third was damaged by flying debris. The first two were apparently raked by smallarms fire as bullet holes were found. A passing Arab lorry loaded with grapes was blasted from the road, slightly injuring one four occupants.