FORTY-SEVEN KILLED

Chronicle (Levin), 31 December 1947, Page 5

FORTY-SEVEN KILLED

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Jews Aiid Arabs In Worst. Riot Yet

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Rec^iv'e d Wednesday,' 10 a.m. . LONDON, Dec. 30. Tliir.Iy-'six Jews are dead and l4Unjured and 11 Arabs are de'ad -and 47 injured foliowing' ihe ' "ek'plosion of two » foarrel-bombs at an oil refinery in Haifa, report agency' eorrespondents in Jerusalem. Two bomb's were -.thrown ffbtri a speediiig* car and they exp'loded among about 100 Afabs staiidiilg at the main ttgate of the tefinery. Bitter 'rioting* amoiig* 1800 Afab. arid 1400 Jewish workers iri the dbrisolidated Oil Refineries' plant followed the Bomb thrbWiiig. The^ Arabs swept throu^h the refinery with kriives and clubs, stabbing, kieking or beating to death aiiy JeWS they could' find. The AraBs invaded the refinefies' offices and dragged out the JeWish elerks.. The company's police fired into the air, but order was not festofed until aritioilred cars, police and trdops afrived. Reuter's jerusalem correspdndeiit says the o'utbreak w'as the wofst Arab- Jewish riot sirice the partition decisiori 30 days ago. The CoiTespondent adds that huiidreds of infufiated Arabs ran amok after the barrelbdiribs were thrown. The Arabs, screaming and yelling, ^ attacked the Jews with fists arid stdnes, and within seeonds the refinefies' main yard was backed with fighting, screaming and kieking men. British troops co'fddned off the refinery and chrirged into the centre of the riot, but could not disperse the Arabs until many Jews were beaten, s'toned or stabbed to death. - i'tte pressiire or eveiits is becomiiig s6 stforig, sayS the Tinies's. Jerusalem correspondent, that sometliirlg will have tb he "dorie sbon tb hreak the entangleitierit of British, Arabs and Jews. One suggestiori is that Britain should db everythitig pqssihle tb .leave sooner than tfie date ridW in mind, namely, next May. It is hard to visualise ; four hionths of the present nehuioUs positiori where the British are expected to do more and more "but are able or Wxliing. to do less itnd less, the correspbndeut aadk.