Evening star., 1947-08-15
II Arabs Slain
InJews' Attack
In Palestine
Four Children, Seven
Al T., K:"eI s..
Ho9onon S,f.ke
Io9onon Str.ke
BY the Associated Press

TEL AVN, Palestine, Aug. Is.
The Jewish underground mi
litia Haganah, announcing it
was striking at Arab brigands,"
killed four children and seven
adults with a bomb and machine
gun attack in an Arab orange
grove near Ramat Gan today.
Haganah broadcast that it had
trailed to the grove an Arab who
had led bands in repeated raids on
Jewish settlements" and shot him
along with three other Bedouin
Arabs. Then three explosions leveled
his stone and steel house, killing
his wife, four children and two
grown sons.
When word of the children's
death spread, an Arab spokesman
in Jaffa declared: Now watch for
some Arab reaction"
Toll Mounts Steadily.
The toll of dead and wounded
mounted steadily in the bloody
racial clashes between Jews and
Arabs in the area of all-Jewish Tel
Aviv and its neighbor city, an-Arab
Jaffa.
An Arab watchman was found
dead near Ramat Gan in the Tel
Aviv area.
The Palestine government, an
nouncing new security measures in
attempts to halt the conflict, said
there is no reason whatever to sup
pose that the riots are part OF a
concerted plan or that various out
RACES which occurred in the last
few days are anything more than
series of disconnected incidents con-
fined to the limited area where
Arabs and Jews live side by side"
The Jewish Agency asked the gov
ernment to gain control OF the
situation before irresponsible ele-
ments plunge the country into a
blood bath"
Four Sprawled in Yard.
The bullet-riddled bodies Of four
of the Arabs slain in the Haganah
attack were found sprawled in the
yard.
Seven other bodies were recovered
from the debris by authorities.
Haganah's communique said it had
found the house which was the
Headquarters for the brigandism
which has been responsible for the
recent attacks on Jewish settlements
in the plains of Sharon and for the
attack on the Fan Hawaii cafe (on
the Yarkon River Sunday night"
At the cafe 20 men, described by
Jewish sources as Arabs, killed four
Jews and injured 10 others.
Our soldiers executed the leader
of the brigands and then executed
six of his men found in the house" !"
the communique said.
Dead Toll at Least 28.
In the continuing strife near
the boundary of Tel Aviv and
Jaffa, two Arabs were found stabbed
to death near the Hatikva quarter
in the same area where two Jews
were killed yesterday. One Jew was
found shot to death in the Saba
colony, IL miles north of Tel Aviv
and Jaffa.
The new killings brought the toll
of dead since Sunday to at least %
III Arabs and II Jews. Forty
Arabs and II Jews have been
wounded seriously and about SO
Arabs and Jews have been hurt.
Property damage in the strife
ridden sectors of Tel Aviv and Jaffa
has been estimated by some sources
at more than 100000.
Troops and police in Tel Aviv
searched the Jewish Federation of
Labor Building, Red House, in Tel
Aviv, but apparently found nothing.
Exodus Under Way.
Meanwhile, what amounted to q
full-scale exodus was in progress in
the squalid border areas of Tel
Aviv and Jaffa. Crowds OF sullen
Jews and Arabs stood by and
watched thousands of their number
move their possessions.
The crowds milled along dusty
streets and alleys of the Abu Kebir
quarter, hard by the traffic vortex
where Jaffa and Tel Aviv streets
merge into the Jerusalem road.
Arabs who have lived beside Jews
for years literally are uprooting
(See PALESTINE, Page A-4D