BRITISH TROOPS BREAK UP SERIOUS JEWISH ATTACK

Chronicle (Levin), 1 May 1948, Page 5

BRITISH TROOPS BREAK UP SERIOUS JEWISH ATTACK

Received Saturday, 1.20 a.m. JERUSALEM, April 30. Jewish sources ciaimed that llagannah forees penetrated deep into the Arab quarter of Katomon in Jerusalem, occupied many strongpoints and captured prisoners and arms. The Assoeiated Press says the Jews ciaimed that Hagannah forees have occupied tho Jerusalem generai post office. 1 British troops using two-pounder guns, hroke up^ strongs Jdwi5h «^|taek from! Montefiore against the Arali'stronghoid on Zion Hill outside Jerusalem. Heavy« fightiag coiitinued dttring the night among the hills aroitnd Jerusalem. The Secretary-G-enerai oi the Afao League (Azzam Pasha) . said in Anrman today that Talestine would hecome a no-inan's-land when- the British mkndate ended. The Af ah& had as much right as aiiyho'dy else to sieze the cotintry or try to restore order. "If the Jews use planes they will have to start bomhing all the way from Libya to Baghdad. We will have only Tel Aviv to "bomb." King Ahdullah of Transjordan is anxious to avoid a clash hetAveen his 1 troops and the British, says the Amman eorrespondent of the Cairo newspaper Alahram. Ahdullah, asked whether Transjordan troops would participate in the Palestine iighting, Said: "iToiiTl see when the British mandate is over."