Evening star., 1948-05-20
Hospital She||ed
In Jerusalem,
JewsChdrge
Arabs Also Fire on
Hebrew University,
Defenders Declare
BY the Assoc;oied Press

CAIRO, May 20.-Ihe battle
for Jerusalem roared on today.
A Jewish communique said the
Arabs were shelling the Hebrew
University and the Hadassah
Hospitals, strongpoints held by
the Army of Israel.
Dispatches from inside Jeru-
salem's walled Old City reported
King Abdullah's Trans-Jordan Arab
Legion and Arab volunteers by last
night had battered more than hall
way through the southern Jewish
quarter behind heavy bombardment.
Outside the walls. the Arabs cleared
Jews from the north, east and south
sectors of modern Jerusalem and
struck deeply into the western
sector.
Egypt announced her troops in
Southern Palestine occupied the
Arab town of Beersheba, southern
most limit of the Holy Land of
Bible days. The Defense Ministry
said Egyptian troops in a 10-hour
battle captured the fortified Jewish
settlement of DER. Suneid, guarding
the road to Tel Aviv.
Jewish Base for Supplies.
Deir Suneid is about miles north
of Arab GAIA, commanding the
road and railway to Tel Aviv. The
Egyptians said the strongly fortified
settlement was a base for supplying
other Jewish defenses in Southern
Palestine. The settlement is IS
miles south of the jewish claimed
portion of the coastal plain and %
miles south of Tel Aviv.
The Cairo Ministry said that In
the northward drive up the coastal
plain the Egyptians also seized Belt
Hanun. 5 miles northeast of GAIA.
It is described as "one of the strong
est points in the operatlonal the
ater."
In the north. the Jewish army
said one of its raiding forces struck
across the Jordan River in the Lake
Hula region, destroying a military
supply camp of the Syrian army
within Syria. The attack took place
Tuesday, the announcement IN Tel
Aviv said, adding:
Companies of the Syrian army
we're stationed at the camp. Thev
we're equipped with heavy armored
cars. artillery and quantity of va
rious arms. Our forces penetrated
into the camp and, after fierce fight
ing, drove the enemy out. Huts were
blown up. tents set afire, armored
cars and field guns destroyed"
Tel Aviv Raided Again.
A Damascus communlque said
Svrians threw back a Jewish coun-
terattack Tuesday and wednesday
in the Galilee area. 1t said Syrian
artillery destroyed Notifications at
Sha ar Hagolan and Masada in two
battles in which the Jews lost 30
dead, including a major. The towns
are about 2 miles south of the Sea
of Galilee, near the Syrian frontier
Tel Aviv came under air attack
for the sixth straight day. Two
persons we're injured.
The Jewish army headquarters
announced in Tel AVlV that IN
Jerusalem heavy shelling by the
Arab Legion on the Hadassah Hos
pital and the Hebrew University
was heard in the late hours OF the
night"
Dispatches from Jerusalem last
night said the Jewish army at that
time held the two points, sur
rounded by machinegun nests, on
Mount Scopus. The advices said
neither point few the Red Cross
flag and that the Arabs had warned
the places would be shelled unless
the machineguns were cleared out.
An Arab official estimated Jewish
strength in Jerusalem at 5000, but
said only 400 Jewish fighters held
out inside the Old City. Their
positions were bombarded for
IS hours yesterday, the dispatches