PALESTINE UNREST CONTINUES

Chronicle (Levin), 29 December 1947, Page 4

PALESTINE UNREST CONTINUES

(N.Z.P.A.-

Reuter ,

COIISIRY SAID TO BE HEAD1NG FOR BIG FLAREUP

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Received Monday, 10.10 a.m. ' LONDON, December 28. Unrest continues in Palestine. While the authorities in Jerusalem counted the casualties in Haganah's punitive night^ attack on the Arabs in Silwan village, in the Mount of Olives area, Izzedeen Shawa Bey, head of the Palestine Arabs political mission to London, who has just returned from visiting Cairo, Beirut, Damascus and Baghdad, told Reuter that Palestine was heading for the "biggest and bloodiest flareup ever known in the Near East."

Arab prisoners in Acre Gaol kick-1 ed to death a British Army sergeant after military guards had foiied a prison break attempt. Reuter's correspondent says that eight Arabs and one Jew were killed and ten Arabs and three Jews wounded when Jewish. gunmen hurled grenades at an Arab petrol filling sration in the Romena quarter of Jerusalem, and raked an adjoining cafe with sub-machine gun fire. Arabs shot dead a Jewish Government doctor outside th'e Beit Safafa Hospital, south-west of Jerusalem. Arabs held up a train 34 miles ! south of Haifa and took the riflesj off the police escort and large j quantities of grain, cement and j mail bags. '

A bullet fired m Zion Square crashed through.- a window . of( Teimatcky's bookshop and ploughed into a volume called "Guide to Palestine." The Associated Press Jerusalem correspondent reports that Dr. Moshe Sheh, former Haganah chief and a member of the world execurive of the Jewish Agency, has resigned. He opposed the agency's order that the 15,000 Jewish refugees at present waiting to sail for Palestine should remain in Black Sea ports. Dr. Sheh complained that the agency was orienting itself with the Western and neglecting the Eastern bloc. He announeed his intention of leading a new opposition group. The Associated Press says that his resignation brings to a head a split in the agency.