UGLY JEWISH-ARAB CLASHES

Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1947, Page 5

UGLY JEWISH-ARAB CLASHES

Received Tuesday, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 29. Armed Jews kille'd 13 Arabs and the Arabs killed two British con- j stables in a clash at Damascus Gate today, says agency messages from Jerusalem. Police at the scene said the Jewish attackers, in a taxi, raked an Arab bus, leaving for Nablus, with automatic fire and threw a grenade into an orange market. The police add that the Arabs chased and caught the Jewish taxi, and killed one Jew and wounde'd two others. The Arabs brought the taxi bac'k to Damascus Gate and set it on fire. The enraged Arabs killed two British constables who were | trying to put out the fire and rejstore order. i The. grenade thrown into the (orange market by the Jews shook I the afCa found Damascus Gate, and | killed and wounded Arabs were fotttrd lying among the scattered oranges after the explosion. Later infuriated Arabs swarmed through the Old City's streets seeking Jews to aveiige the 13 Arabs killed in the Damascus Gate attack. Women and children standing in a bus queue were among those killed when Irgun terrorists sprayed a" market place with machine-gun fire and then rolled a barrel bomb from a taxi into the Arab crowds. After the explosion the Arabs began firing wildly. Armoured cars rushed to the scene. A hand grenade thrown at the entrance of Barclay's Bank, in this afternoon, injured one Jewish employee fatally and three slightly . Armed men believed to be Jews, killed one British soldier and wounded two others during an attack on a British Army catnp east of Jaffa. The police said the men entered the camp by cutting ih? perimeter wire. They stole 74 rifies, seven Sten guns, six pistols and 3000 rounds of ammunition. The total of violent deaths yesterday was 21. Three Arabs were killed when a bomo exploded i,i a house on Jerusalem- Jaffa road. Tne body of ano Egy'ptian shot through the head, was found in a sack.