JEWS STOPPED FROM HANGING BRITISH GUARDS
Reeeived Monday, 11.5 a.m. JERUSALEM, April 18. Police in a British afmoured car entering Waldheim internment camp saw three British military; camp guards trussed under a tree; with Jews preparing ropes to hangi them. The police forced the Jews to hand over the soldiers and returned to Haifa. Later British troops rescued 80 German prisoners-of-war from the camp, which' had been taken over by 60 Jews. The Jews had locked
' the Germans in two small rooms and killed' two German girls. The Arab National Committee said today that the Arab Judean, Army entered the Jewish settlement of Nevi-Yacouv, five miles from Jerusalem, astride the main road to Nablus, and blew up sev-1 ! "ral houses. Jewish sources denied the Arab claim and said that a "terrific baGle is still in progress." j British Highland Infantry I spurces said the Arabs won a vic- ! tory and captured 20 Jewish | armoured cars.Arabs killed five Jews outside Haifa in a sharp engagement with Jewish forces.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 April 1948, Page 5
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