Evening star., 1947-12-04
Arabs Touch Off
Battle by Attack
On Jewish Buses
Fight Raging Through
Town; 81 Dead in
3 Days Of Rioting
By the Associoted Press

JERUSALEM, Dec. 5.-Street
battle fared today in the Arab
town of Ranle on the Tel Aviv-'
Jerusalem road as Arab fury
mounted against partition of
Palestine.
Fighting is raging in the streets" :"
said Associated Press correspondent
Carter L. Davidson in a telephone
report from the scene.
The roads are impossible because
OF roadblocks. stones and damaged
cars. All traffic is stopped"
While both Arab and Jewish lead
ers pleaded for halt to the wave of
violence in the Middle East, other
outbursts were reported.
An Associated Press compilation
for the three days of rioting
throughout Palestine showed "a
dead-l5 Arabs and 10 Jews-Wlth
the Arabs strike protesting parti-
ton in its third and last day. Hun
dreds have been injured.
Traffic Turned Back.
Outside battle-torn Ramle, Brit
ish troops were turning back trafnc
from Jerusalem. Inside the city, Mr..
Davidson reported the new riotlng
was touched off when two Jewish
bus conveys, led by armored police
cars were attacked by Arab mobs.
Fighters of Hagana, the under
ground Jewish militia, drove of the
attackers, wounding at least four
Arabs. Three Jewish passengers IN
a convoy were injured in an initial
attack by the mob. A second wave
came soon afterward.
Unofficial reports from the city
said a bomb tossed from a jewish
taxi wounded 20 Arabs. The Asso-
clated Press car was struck by one
of a volley of Is bullets, and the
Arab driver was wounded in the leg.
Mr.. Davidson suffered bruise on
one heel.
British security forces were alerted
for 24-hour duty. The Tel AVN
Jaffa market area now Is occupied
by troops.
All AIdU "dS hl1lCo d24S oAf - a.
Jews and Arabs were wounded IN
renewed skirmishing along the bor-
der between all-Jewish Tel Aviv and
all-Arab Jaffa.
Jew Wounded in Jerusalem.
q A Jewish worker in a Tel AvlV
factory was reported killed by shots
said to have come from guns of
police patroling the Jaffa curfew
area.
In Jerusalem, a Jew was wounded
by gunfire in the curfew-bound sec
ton of the old city and a British
soldier was injured by an Arab mob
attempting to break a military cor
don at the Jaffa gate.
A Jewish truck driver knitted yes
terday near the Jaffa gate died TINS
morning of his wounds, and police
found the body of dead Jew IN
the iot-blackened commercial CEN
ter of Jerusalem. That section, now
under a 24-hour curfeW, forms
no-man's land between Jewish and
Arab parts of the city.
Norwegian Car Stoned.
An Arab mob on the highway be-
tween Tel Aviv and LYDIA Airport
stoned a Norwegian Airlines auto
mobile and beat up the Jewish
driver, but did not molest uni
formed official in the car.
Four Jews were arrested in Jeru-
salem when. according to an official
statement, they fired on Palestine
Arab policemen. A Stem gun, four
pistols, three homemade grenades
and 100 rounds of ammunition were
seized with them.
A pail of smoke hung over Haifa
as a result of fires set during the
night, including a Jewish lumber
yard, garage. planning mill and toy
factory. An Arab shop in the Jewish
section also was burned. An Arab
fireman was electrocuted while
fighting the flames at the lumber
yard.
Reporters who watched the Arabs
trying to fight their way out OF
walled old city of Jerusalem de-
scribed them as hopping mad.
Police had tear gas equipment ready
to use and soldiers. armed with
rifles and gun carriers, were in steel
helmets.
Hagana Assemblies Again.
The fighters of Hagana assembled
again in Zion Square, ready fol
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