Arab Outrages in Palestine

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 5

Arab Outrages in Palestine

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/Beceived 16, 8.45 a.m.) JEEDSALEM, Oct. 34. A train en ronte to Lydda from Haif* was hlown up by a land mine 20 miim from Jaffa. Three passengers wer© killed. A number of coaehes were overturned by the explosion whieh destroyed * small bridge. A policeman aceompanying ihe train reported that he saw, • number of Arabs fleeing. They faB«i to obey an order to bait, and two weta shot dead. A report frocn the Jewish settlement in the Beisan valley states that tht Iraq pipe-line has been pieroed in two pjaees. {)il gushing from the pipe was ignited. A party'of Bedouins tried to prevent colonists from ploughrng land in the new colony of Tiratzui, in the Beisan area, claiming that the ground belonged to them. Fot Jews were slightly n.ounded. For- the first time since the rioting an armoured trolley-car contaimng troops with machine-guns and searehlights was used to pilot two trains carrying the first battaiion of the Boyal Sussex Begimant to Egypt. The

precantion was due to uneasiness for the safety of the troops, who were due to travel at night time through the narrow Judean mountain defiles before joining the mara line. The battaiion is being replaced by the Black Watch. A erowded Jewish motor-bus, bound for Televiv, was ambushed rounding e dark corner at the bottom of a defile on the Jaffa Toad, five miles from Jerusalem. Thirty shots were -fired, and bombs were thrown, Two Arabs were killed and nine Jews wounded, including a Jewish police officer and- two wo- ! men. Those not injured jumped from the bus and rushed to ©over. . The bu* ran backwards and crashed in an olive grove. The Jewish driver of the bus was fired on. An Arab was killed when a bomb, abont to be thrown at another Jewish motor-bus, exploded in. his hands. Five more leaders of the Arab Higher Committee have been bauished from Palestine. All are at present abroad* British police dinisg-in a Greek cafe showed coolness when a- bomb . was thrown among them. They picked it up, preventing an explosion. The polic* have oxdered all the cinemas in Jerusa-. lem to close. The hero of the blown-up train was * British constable,: whose promptnean and courage saved .the' lives of many Jewish passengers. Ambs attempted to board th© traia to rout out the Jews. A' cohstabl® killed the first raider, and when his revolver was emptied he snatched a xifle- from an aeeompanying Arab and drove off ihe remainder. Then ha travelled On foot aeross eountry -and obtained heln.

It is stated that the reason for which the constable hero's name is not divnlged is due to the fear of an Arab blood feud, a custom which might lead to Tevenge. All night' trains have been banned.