Evening star., 1946-10-30
Three Bombs Explode
lin Central Railway
Station in Jerusalem
By the Assoeiotsd Press

JERUSALEM, Oct. 3O.-Three
bombs, planted by tommygun-
welding youths whom police de-
scribed as Jews, exploded in Je-
rusalem's central railway station
today.
The explosions came about an
hour after the youths stormed the
station from two taxicabs in a hail
of gunfire with the explosives. The
station had been evacuated before
the blasts.
A road mine which police said was
set by the Jewish underground ex-
ploded under a military convoy here
earlier today, wrecking two army
trucks. killing two soldiers and in
juring 10.
Preliminary police reports said at
least three persons were killed or
missing in the central railway sta
ton. The reports blamed Jewish
terrorists.
An Arab civilian who grappled
with the youths as they alighted
from the cabs was reported to be
one of the casualties.
The three bombs shook the build
ing at about 15-second intervals
Army sappers who had tried to To-
cate the bombs were believed to
have been still at work when the
explosives went off.
Dozens of Government workers
witnessed the explosions from WIN
dows of the nearby David's Office
Building. Word had been spread
that the station was mined.
At least two of the terroristS were
reported wounded and captured in
running gunfight from the sta
ton toward the old city of Jeru-
salem, half a mile distant.
Several attackers were believed to
have escaped into the old city S
maze of alleys and streets.
Witnesses said when the taxicabs
arrived at the station, one of them
unloaded youths who began ex-
changing fire with police guards. A
flash bomb was exploded.
Troops and police launched a
search Immediately after the con-
voy was blasted and soon an
nounced discovery Of fairly large
cache of illegal weapons in the jew
ish settlement of Givat Shaul, just
outside the city. A curfew had been
clamped on the settlement October
9, after a similar explosion on a
nearby road.
JeruSalem'S curfeW orders were
amended to extend from 6 pm. un-
til 7 am, rather than from $50
pm. to $50 am. The curfew was
extended to include the Mahalot
Shimon quarter. Jewish area
where the attack occurred. Police
first said three soldiers were killed
and II injured. but later revised the
casualty list.
Another outbreak Of violence was
reported from the all-Jewish city
of Tel Aviv, where four armed men
robbed two Polish cashiers OF $4,000
in a daring street holdup.
The Tel Aviv robbers, who used
smoke bombs to keep passersby and
police at bay, missed sachel con-
tanning $48, 900 in their hurry to
escape. The money was being taken
from a bank to the Polish Refugee
Committee Office.
Violence Denounced.
The Jerusalem explosion occurred
only a few hours after the Inner
Zionist Council had denounced
bloodshed "as an instrument OF the
Zionist political struggle"
The first truck in the convoy was
destroyed, another was damaged
when it crashed into the wreckage
and an Arab truck loaded with
grapes was blown off the road, scat
tering grapes and debris over the
road for adistance Of so yards. =,
The military, meanwhile, said the
Raj and British Navy had renewed
their search for a refugee ship sup
posed to be bearing immigrants
which has repeatedly been reported
near the coast, but not sighted as yet.
Police reported also that British
ieep struck road mine during the
night near Raanana, IA miles north
of Jerusalem, and one soldier was
slightly hurt.