MORE TERRORIST ATTACKS IN PALESTINE
Received Monday, 12.37 a.m. JERUSALEM, July 27. A British army ufficer was seriously injured and a soldier slightly injured when a niine blew up a raii troliey patrolling the Jaffa-Tel Aviv iine bringing the British casualties since the latest vvave of terrorisni began 011 Jurly 16 to ten dead and 76 injured. The authorities have Jifted the restrictions on people in Xathanya who since July 34 has been under virtual niartiai law. The restrictions were imposed while a search was made for two Bri tish sergeants kidnapped 011 July 12. The authorities now believe the sergeants are not in Xathanya and are searching elsewhere. The Jewisli lllegal inimigrant ships reported in the -Mediterraneah last week by Royal Air Eorce planes which are shadowing theni are now nearing the Palestine coast with a total of 16"0l' passengers vvithout visas. A boobytrap on the underground cable they were repairing killed two members of the Royal Signals on the ontskirts of Jerusalem. The terrorists apparently eut the cable and installed a boobytrap. Police swooped on the Jewish quarter 011 the outskirts of Jerusalem and arrested six suspected Jewish terrorists, and in a factorv and house seized 100 eases of gelignite, a large quantity of guncotton and boobytrap iletonators.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 July 1947, Page 8
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