DISTURBED PALESTINE

Chronicle (Levin), 12 August 1947, Page 5

DISTURBED PALESTINE

Received Monday, 7 p.m. JERUSALEM, August 10. Four Jews were killed and ten injured when a band of about 20 Arabs raided a erowded riverside eafe calJeo Hawaii on the Eiver Yarkon on the outslcirts of Tel Aviv and threw hand grenades. The Arabs, in a pitched battle that followed, were repulsed au» fled into the adjaevnt Arab farmlands The Arab raiders vvore the uniform oj the Arab Youth Organisation. Tlulights went out in the Hawaii night elub wliith is the most modern in TeAviv, a few minutes after the Arabs began shooting indiseriminately into customers^all of whom were Jews. Tlu panicstrieken occupants tried to rush the exit to dodge the hail of bullets The raiders then tossed handgrenades The elub was owned in partnershi-p b\ Jewish ex-servieemen and Arab landowners. Keuter's stated that Arabs who lived nearby had objected to thtnoise from the elub after dusk. The poliee captured three of fofn Jews who ar£ alleged to have stolen a taxi which exploded after it crashed out of eontrol. One Jew whom the police arrested, appeared in liospitai vvith his right arm blown olf. He assekted that he was a passerby. fhe [joliee arrested a seeond Jew suffering from freshly inflicted wounds, in a house near the explosion. They found the third Jew in a nearby chemis't's shop suffering from s'tomach wounds. The police alloge he is a suspected ter forist.