MORE ATTACKS ON BRITISH

Chronicle (Levin), 23 February 1948, Page 5

MORE ATTACKS ON BRITISH

Reeeived Monday, 11.15 a.m. JERUSALEM, Feb. 22. A new explosion ip the city tonight blew up an army lorry" and kiiied five British soldiers and wounded six. Masked Jewish youths broke into, a hospital after dusk and shot two British constables wounded earlier in the day. Qae constable was killed and the other badly wounded.- Another gang of youths entered the Hobassah Clinic and killed a British person. , Crowds are still yelling in streets tonight, for revenge on the British. • Jews fired on an armoured car investigating an earlier killing. ot two R.A.F. men shot near the Jewish Agency. Jews also fired on an army truck driving through a road block outside the Jewish Agency building and k-illed a British soldier and injured a British Army pad're riding' in the truck. It is reported that street fightlng started round Zion Square afterBritish troops in a lorry refused to allow the Haganabi to search them. Police reported that a mortar fired by a Jew killed three British infantry-men in their billets. Jewish sources reported that three British trucks " neanng Jerusalem were blo.wn up. The casualtiesjrare unknqwn. Reuter's correspondent reports seeing Jews advancing on British troops engaged on resoue wprk. They retrea'ted when troops unslung their rifles. Qne Jew produced hand grenades but ran into the crowd when covered t^y Bren guns.