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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 26, 1988.

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PALESTINE TENSION NOW

REACHES FEVER PITCH

Heavy Casualties In Day Of Riots And Shooting

Arab Reprisals In Haifa Follow Bomb Explosion

Paris, To-day.

According to press reports here from Palestine, the tension in Palestine has reached its pitchpoint, after the sanguinary bomb outrage which oc- curred at Haifa yesterday.

The Arab population of Haifa began to take repri- sals practically immediately after the explo- sion of a bomb in the Haifa vegetable market, setting fire to Jewish shops and stores.

MERCURY GOING HOME VIA AZORES

Montreal, To-day.

The flying boat "Mercury, which is making the return flight to England, left here for New,

foundland at 4.50 p.m., (B.S.T.) Azores, Lisbon and then to Lon-

from where it is flying to the

don-Reuter.

The flying boat "Mercury" ar- rived at Botwood at 9.28 p.m. (B.S.T.).-Reuter.

BRITISH PLAN FOR SPAIN; FRANCO SILENT

London, To-day.

The Spanish Government's reply. to the British plan for evacuation of volunteers is expected to arrive in London in the course of to-day, according to informed quarters here.

The reply in which the Govern- ment declares that it accepts the plan under certain conditions, was

NEWS-CHRONICLE handed to the British envoy in Bar-

BANNED

Berlin, To-day.

celona, Mr. Leche, on Saturday,

The reservations made will, it is declared here, be examined by the Non-Intervention Committee.

The reply from General Franco aries were ambushed near Nazareth Chronicle," has been forbidden in Ocean.

The British newspaper, "News is not yet forthcoming. Trans- with the result that one was killed German until further notice because and one was injured.

of repeated publications of attacks

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Four Jewish shops were complete-operative in all towns in the East- ly destroyed by the flames. All ern area. motorcars which were sighted by A party of Jewish supermuner- the demonstrants in the streets were attacked and set afire too..

Telephone communication between Haifa and the rest of Palestine has been completely interrupted. The Arabs, moreover have proclaimed a general strike in Haifa. An in- creasing number of incidents is reported from the zone between Jaf-sniped at, near Tiberias.

fa and Tel Aviv.

Another Jew was killed and two were wounded through a land-mine on Gerinany, it is stated officially explosion on the Sharon Plain.

in Germany.Trans-Ocean. One Jew was killed and another wounded when working party was

The death roll in the bomb ex- plosion and rioting yesterday morning is now given as 43 Arabs, and 4 Jews killed, as well as 41 Arabs and 11 Jews injured.

Planes of the British Air Force are now constantly patrolling the, region ready to intervene at once when serious incidents are report-Reuter ed. It is further reported that the Commander-in-Chief of the British

YELLOW RIVER BREACH WIDENS

Loyang, To-day.

The main breach i the

MR.

GREENWAY TO

CHARGE

TAKE

Hankow, To-day.

Mr. J. D. Greenway, First Secre- tary of the British Embassy, will be in charge of British Embassy affairs in Hankow during the ab- sence of the British Ambassadór.

troops in Palestine has confirmed ITALIAN WARNING along the Yellow River has widen- Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, it

death sentences pronounced against

five Arabs.-Trans-Ocean.

POLICEMEN SHOT

Jerusalem, To-day.

In the region between the town of Haifa and Mount Carmel two

OF PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS

Rome, To-day. The Secretary-General of the Fas- Jewish policemen were shot and cist Party, Signor Starace, in the six seriously injured during a clash course of a speech on the subject of with Arabs. Another Jewish "Racialism,” hinted that world

policeman was shot by Arabs near the Jewish settlement Haboreh.

During further clashes at Tiberias, Nazareth and Tel Aviv, five more Jews were shot by Arabs. According to the latest official statement thus far altogether 42 persons-lost their lives as the re-

Jewish anti-Fascist sympathies |might lead to the persecution of the

Jews in Italy.

"It was Starace, that despite the tolerant notorious, said Signor policy of the Fascist Regime, the Jews and their money constituted the General-Staff of anti-Fascism.”

sult of the Haifa bomb outrage He was addressing the group of but it is feared that the final death toll may be still higher since the University professors who had re- conditions of several other 50 per-cently declared that the Italians

were Aryans.-Reuter. sons seriously wounded by the ex- ploding bomb is extremely grave.

EMERGENCY HOSPITAL

Since the accommodation avail- able in the regular hospitals of Haifa was insufficient an emer- gency hospital was

tablished

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NEW R.A.F. CHIEF IN FAR EAST

London, To-day.

The Air Ministry announces near the scene of the explosion. Maltby Has been appointed to the that Air Vice-Marshal P. C. The streets outside the hospitals where the wounded were conveyed Command of Number 24 (Train- were crowded with crying Arab ing) Group of the Air Forces as

from the beginning of August.

women,

During raids carried out by the British troops in the area formed by the triangle Nablus, Tulkarem and Jenin, which is the chief die turbance centre, more than 1,000 Arabs have been arrested for aid- ing abetting Arab Nationalists, Trans-Ocean.

MANY JEWS KILLED

Haifa, To-day. The curfew, proclaimed from 7.00 p.m., until 6:00 am., is a curfew

He takes the place of Air Vice- Marshal J. T. Barrington, who succeeds Air Vice-Marshal A, W. Tedder, in command of the Air Force in the Far East-Reuter.

Lam Chuen and Li Ching, coolies, were admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries to the head and body. They fell heavily when a staging col- lapsed while they were engaged, in removing sand from a nullah in Waterloo Road.

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ed from 150 metres to 217 metres, is learned in diplomatic circles. according to Mr. Wang Yu-tun,

Greenway is leaving. Shang- Chairman of the Yellow River Con- hai for Hong Kong aboard the 8.8. servancy Commission, who return- Empress of Asia to-day- From, ed here yesterday from an inspec- Hong Kong he will take a plane to tion tour. Central News.

Hankow. Central News.

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