Palo Alto Times · 5 December 1947

CP-1947-024

Fires raging out of control after Arab attack on Tel Aviv

Death toll from Palestine riots reaches 48—25 of them Jews

By the Associated Press

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“Fires swept out of control in an Arab attack on all-Jewish Tel Aviv tonight as the week’s deaths in communal fighting in the Middle East passed the 100 mark. Flames illuminated a five-mile-long battle front centering on Tel Aviv. Thirty Arab-owned homes evacuated by Jewish families blazed up, and an official announcement said the fires were out of control.

Bombs and Grenades added their din to the chatter of rifles and automatic weapons. The death toll in Palestine reached 48, 25 of them Jews. In the British protectorate of Aden, near the entrance of the Red Sea, deaths from anti-Jewish rioting were reckoned officially at 25 Arabs and 19 Jews.

Deaths earlier in the week in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East sent the total past 100. Gunfire sounded around Tel Aviv on a line from Arab Jaffa in the south around the Arab village of Salemeh. Jewish residents of the battle area began withdrawing this afternoon and the Arabs of Salemeh were withdrawing tonight.

The troops of Hagana, the Jewish underground militia, returned the Arab fire. Arab casualties in the day’s fighting, the fourth in a row in the Jaffa-Tel Aviv area, were unannounced… Some 50,000 demonstrators met in the center of the Lebanese capital of Beirut protesting the partition decision.

Arab sources said 3,900 men and 38 women from Lebanon had volunteered to fight partition.”

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Printed beside the ousting of French Communists from the National Assembly and a report that French police had been given power to fire on crowds. The subhead over the Haganah paragraph reads “Jews reurn fire.”

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