SECOND ATTACK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 5

SECOND ATTACK

MEMBERS OF HAGANAH SIX-HOUR FIGHT ON BORDER JERUSALEM, Dec. 7. Several hundred Haganah men, in full war kit and with armour, shortly after midnight launched the second big attack within 12 hours on the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa border in the slum quarter of Hatikvah. The attack, which began after Haganah scouts claimed they had seen concentrations of semi-military Arab forces in Salameh village, l/sted six hours. Jews used and machine guns, and hand grenades were thrown. The Government of Iraq plans a surtax' to raise financial aid for Palestine, says the Bagdad correspondent of the Associated Press. Senator Had Raih Altiyah opened the parliamentary aid to Palestine campaign by contributing his parliamentary salary foi one year. Other senators and representatives followed suit.

Jewish and Arab shootings resulted in the death of six Jews to-day, making a death roll of 51 Jews, 27 Arabs and two Armenians since the United Nations partition vote on Novembe) 29, says the Jerusalem correspondem of the Associated Press. Arab attacks on Jewish buses on the Jaffa-Tel-Aviv border accounted for three dead today. One of four persons wounded in a bus en route from Tel-Aviv to Negev died. The driver of a car and a Jewish passenger were wounded in Haifa. ' 1 Reuter's corespondent reports thai the Jewish Agency has ordered a countrywide registration of all Jews between the ages of 17 and 25, to begin on December 9, for security and othei essential services. The call-up is expected to produce about 70,000, soma of whom are already on the strength of Haganah. Arabs are actively drumming up volunteers for “national service,” and they opened two recruiting centres in Jerusalem to-day.