TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN HAIFA
Received Monday, 10.55 a.m. JERUSALEM, March 21. Reuter's Haifa ■ correspondent says that an explosion set on fire and destroyed , IjS • Paitke'd, cdi's and lorries, wreckUd' lOu y'ards- of road, 'set on fire' ' *two 'warehouses and j damaged a dozen , buildings. ;lh ,1 y' Ah . eyewitness :.said ithat -.two ' .Arabs in European clothes' o'Mirtpe.d l-out of ' a lorry, which they direct.edjtowards a Haganah road block. j The lorry careered ' towards the road bfloCk, but before rea'ching it } erashed into a Jewish lorry in a par ,park between "the 'War^hdbse. 'Haganah guards. .yelled a wafning and hundreds of Jews fied into. the side strees ap'd alleys. The lorry expioded ■ three minuts later. paris of .it- being blown to> the top of a four.-storey bujlding. Debris fefi on-. ships in the harbour. . - i;.'i ' •
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1948, Page 5
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