Rising British Casualties
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TERRORISM IN PALEST1NE
By Telegraph
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Received Mondav, 10.40 a.m. JERUSALEM, Nov. 3. It is offlcially stated that ten British soldiers .were injured, three of them seriously, when a military truck was blown up, six miles from Tel Aviv, by an eleetrically-detom ated mine yesterday. Simultaneously another truck rau into a wire hung eighteen inches jabove the road, north of Petach Tikua, 011 the Plain of Sharon, slightly injuring the driver. An hour later a road bridge south of Tel Mond was damaged by an explosion. The British military causalties for the week are now five killed and forty-five wounded. Two Jews were killed and nine wounded early toda.y, when Arabs, trying to prevent the establishment of a new Jewish village at Lake Huia, near the Jordan's headwaters, fired against Jews ploughing land and erecting the first buildings. Two Arabs were killed and an Arab woman injured in the ensuing fight, which was stopped by the police after a fight. The building of the settlement — the sixteenth since October 1, was continued.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 November 1946, Page 5
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