The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-02
Killed,
23 Injured
In Outbreak
Troops On Martial Law
Footing Press Search
For Terrorists
CLUB BOMBED
Important Order Is Expect
ed To Bring On Full
Military Control
BY The Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Sunday, March 2.
persons were killed and
at least % wounded yesterday in :.
bloody eruption of violence in the
Holy Land. and declaration of
martial law appeared 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 command
ing the LYDIA district told Mayor
Israel Rokuch of Tel Aviv that the
army would occupy Tel Aviv,
Petah Tiqvah and Ramat Gan at
4 a. m. Go p. M, EST Saturday..
The move was interpreted, as We're
strict curfews decreed in other
communities, as the first imple-
mentation of martial law.
A public information officer said
an important communicate" gen.
orally believed to be imposition
of martial law, would be released
simultaneously here and in London
at 8 a.. m. q a. m. Eastern Stand
ard Time.
Sixteen persons were killed and
at least IA wounded yesterday aft
ernoon as the t%errorists opened
Palestine's bloodiest series of at
tacks since last July by bombing
Ia British o~fficers club in Jeru-
salem. Throughout the rest of the
day and night other attacks fol-
lowed in rapid succession along
the north Palestine coast.
| Irgun Zvai7 Leuml, the under
ground Jewish resistance organiza-
ton, broadcast a statement that 1t
was responsible for all the at
tacks and declared that Irgun
would welcome the war which 10
bound to come before we can gain
our freedom"
Much of the British military ac-
tivity-the soldiers themselves say
ing they already were on martial
law footing'-was cloaked in dark
ness as the terrorists cut a trunk
power line at Kfar Sirkn last night,
Throwing all the coastal area north
of Tel Aviv into. blackness.
The attackers mined a jeep on
the Carmel road near Haifa, kill
ing 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 4
soldier in a truck mining near
Tulkarm, 20 miles east of Nath-
anya.
-Four other persons were wound
ed when trucks struck mines at
undisclosed places. An army camp
at Kfar Iona, near Nathanya, was
attacked, but casualties were not
reported; several vehicles were
wrecked in the bombing of a naval
parking lot near the Haifa water
front; a mortar shell exploded at
Hadera, on the coast between
Haifa and Nathanya, and a water
pumping station at Ras Eft Elm was
put under fire"
The issuing of the martial law
decree was generally expected
throughout the country following
an emergency conference last
might between Gen. G.. H. A. Mac
MILAN, British army commander
in Palestine, and Sir Alan Cum
bingham, the high commissioner,
in Jerusalem.
Irgun, which posted notices in
Tel Aviv demanding a "civil pro-
test strike" by all Palestine Jews,
said yesterday the bombing of the
Jerusalem officers club was in
retaliation 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 free
dom no matter what elaborate
precautions they take"
Earlier this week British sail
ors intercepted a Jewish refugee
lship which ran aground near
lHaifa. Although the uncertified
Immigrants were removed to Brit
ish deportation ships, there were
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