Evening star., 1947-03-02
|19Dead, q Hurt
In New Wayeof
Holy Land Terror
Martial Law Is Neur;
Army Will Occupy 3
Palestine Towns
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Sunday, Mar. 2.
Nineteen persons were killed
and at least % wounded yester-
day in a bloody eruption of
violence in the Holy Land, and
declaration of martial law ap-
peared only hours away today as
the full might of the British
military famed out through
Northern Palestine in a search
for terrorist gunners and bomb
throwers. !
The British brigadier commanding
the LYDIA district told Mayor Israel
Rokuch Of Tel Aviv that the army
would occupy Tel Aviv, Petah Tiqvah
and Ranlat Gan at am. I10 pm,
EST, Saturday.. The move was in
terpreted, as were strict curfews de-
creed in other communities, as the
flrst augmentation of martial law.
A public information officer said
an important eommunique," gener-
ally believed to be imposition of
martial law, would be released stimuli
taneously here and in London at 8
am. Il am, EST.
Officers Club Bombed.
Sixteen persons were killed and
at least IA wounded yesterday after
noon as the terrorists opened Pales-
stine's bloodiest series of attacks
since last July by bombing British
officers club In Jerusalem. Through
out the rest Of the day and night
other attacks followed In rapid sue
cession along the North Palestine
COAST.
raun zvai Lsumi, the under
ground Jewish resistance organiza-
ton, broadcast q statement that it
was responsible for all the attacks
and declared that Irguns would "wel-
come the war which is bound to
come before we can gain cur free
dom,.
Much Of the British military ac-
tivity-the soldiers themselves say
ing they already were on martial
law footing cloaked In dark
ness as the terrorists cut trunk
power line at Kfar Sirkn last night,
throwing all the coastal area north
Of Tel Aviv into darkness.
The attackers mined a jeep on
the Carmel road near Haifa, killing
two persons and injuring two;
staged an artillery and machine gun
raid on an army camp at Belt Lid,
near Nathanya. killing a British
corporal and wounding two other
soldiers, and wounded a soldier in
a truck mining near Tulkarm, 20
miles east of Nathanya.
Army Camp Attacked.
Four other persons were wounded
when trucks struck mines at UNI
disclosed places. An army camp at
Kfar Iona, near Nathanya, was at
tackled, but casualties were not re-
ported; several vehicles were
wrecked in the bombing of naval
parking lot near the Haifa water
front; a mortar shell exploded at
Hadera, on the coast between Haifa
and Nathanya, and water pump
ing station at Ras Et Elm was put
under fire.
The issuing OF the martial law
decree was generally expected
throughout the country following an
emergency conference last night be-
tween Gen. G. H. A. Macmillan,
British army commander in Pales-
tine, and Sir Alan Cunningham, the
high commissioner, in Jerusalem.
Irgun, which posted notices In
Tel Aviv demanding civil protest
strike" by all Palestine Jews, said
yesterday the bombing of the Je-
rusalem officers club was in retalia-
ton for British attacks ION our
brothers yesterday at Haifa in which
some Of our people were killed and
also to prove to British forces that
they cannot escape our soldiers In
their fight for freedom no matter
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