ARAB GANGSTERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1939, Page 7

ARAB GANGSTERS

KILL MEMBERS OF PATROL \ FOUR BRITISH CONSTABLES AND THREE JEWS. SIX KILLED BY BOMBS IN JERUSALEM. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. JERUSALEM, June 2. An Arab gang shot dead ,an entire railway patrol, consisting of four British constables, and three Jewish supernumeraries, near Kawkilieh, 35 miles north-west of Jerusalem. The gang captured the patrol’s machineguns and rilles. Four Arabs were killed, five seriously injured and 15 slightly wounded by a bomb thrown among buses at the Jaffa Gate. Three more bombs were thrown in the main street, completing the disruption of the telephone system. Nearly every line in the city was out of order as a result of a series of explosions in the main underground conduits due to sabotage. A later message states that the death roll at the Jaffa Gate is now six. In the course of rioting after the bombing, which wrecked a wide area, Arabs stoned Jewish traffic. Police ordered Jews to close the near-by shops. VIOLENCE CONDEMNED MANIFESTO BY JEWISH COUNCIL. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDNO, June 2. The Jerusalem correspondent of the “Times” says the Jewish Community Council has issued a manifesto stating the recent outburst of violence has shocked the Jewish authorities, which are opposed to all bloodshed and demands discipline from individuals. A Jaffa a bomb injured the Mayor of Jaffa, a member of the Arab Moderates, while sitting in a cafe. The authorities have closed all cinemas for an indefinite period.