WIDESPREAD AIR RAIDS

Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1948, Page 5

WIDESPREAD AIR RAIDS

Received Monday, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, May 16. There were three air raids on Tel Aviv this morning and several Spitfifes/dive bombed the port area in . the af ternoon. Haganah said the Arab planes were "beiieved" to have been. Jiot down in the morning attacks. Five people were killed

in the raids. An Egyptian Defenee Minis.try source in Cairo said that Egyptian Air Force planes had destroyed the port installations at Tel Aviv. A twiri-engined aircraft attacke'd Tiberias, Ashdots, Yaafcov and Aflikim, and a single-engiried plane made oiie bombing run oVer Eingev, on the eastern shores of Galilee, close to the Transjordan frontier. Heavy artillery is said to have shelled Gingev from the Transjordan hills. An unmarke'd plane, presumably Jewish, bombed the Arab village of Ssinicikli Haganah says that Egyptian planes bombed a Royal Air Force temporary aerodrome yesterday and wounded eight British soldiers Egyptian planes also attackec a British armoured unit while it was on its way from Hebron to Rafah. The Arab Legion is reported to have occupied Lydda airport. Arabs captured the formerly Britishcontrolled broadcasting station at Ramallah, north of Jerusalem. Iraqi planes dropped leaflets in Kashir and Bissam t settlements promising the Jews sale conduct if they surren'dered.